The Mars Opportunity rover's 15-year mission: To boldly go into Martian craters everywhere. But now that it's over, where does it rank in the grand scheme of unmanned space exploration?

NASA's Curiosity rover, or Mars Science Laboratory, could last on the surface of the Red Planet for five or six years, depending on the health of its onboard mechanisms and power system.

NASA has explored Mars through the use of unmanned orbiters, rovers and satellites since the 1960s. In fact, scientists at NASA are currently working to transport samples from the red planet back ...

NASA planning to launch a new rover to Mars in search of past life 13:06. If you're tired of being cooped up and yearning for a get-away, have we got an adventure for you.

There are currently a record seven active unmanned missions operating on or around Mars, but the parade has only just begun. ... Mars 2020 is the temporary name for NASA's next Mars rover mission.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission is an unmanned Mars exploration mission that sent two robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity to explore the Martian surface and geology.

For the study, the researchers conducted a field investigation using unmanned aerial vehicles at the Alvord Hot Spring within the Alvord Desert in Oregon from July 27 to August 3, 2024.

Given the hostile conditions of extraterrestrial environments, unmanned rovers play a critical role in the exploration of planets and moons. NASA's Mars and lunar exploration rovers have ...

The Mars rovers are way slower than you think. Curiosity and Perseverance both move at roughly the same clip, at around 0.1 miles per hour (4.2 centimeters per second, or 152 meters per hour).

Curiosity snaps a selfie on Mars. Note the wear-and-tear on its wheels. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS A major software update to the Curiosity rover will allow the robot to drive faster on the ...

As fun as it would be to visit Mars, we wouldn't necessarily want to walk a mile in the Curiosity rover's shoes — or rather, its wheels. After landing in Mars' Gale Crater in 2012 and traveling ...

With the Mars solar conjunction over and Curiosity now back in regular communications with Earth, the rover is back to work, taking images of regions called Crescent Meadow and Sawtooth Peak and ...