A crater on Mars has a bright patch of ice. It's the second time in over a decade that the crater and ice has been observed ...

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one ...

NASA Insight mission's seismometer data of a meteor slamming into Mars has been converted into sound. The meteor broke into ...

Nasa's Perseverance rover has completed five years on Mars and received a new autonomous navigation system. This technology allows the rover to pinpoint its location without help from Earth.

New research shows that an intense regional dust storm transported unusually high amounts of water vapor into Mars’ upper atmosphere, boosting hydrogen escape. The discovery reshapes understanding of ...

Mars Global Localization (MGL), a tech similar to GPS on Earth, lets Perseverance nail down its coordinates to about 10 inches.

This is the story of Beagle 2, a plucky Mars probe that everyone thought failed at the last minute. But the story is a lot more complicated ...

NASA JPL’s Mars Global Localisation lets Perseverance pinpoint its position to 25cm in minutes, boosting autonomy.

Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

Downloads Mars Global Localization Pinpoints Perseverance’s Location PNG (566.29 KB) PIA26705 animation MP4 (2.77 MB) Description These images were part of the first successful use of a new technology ...

Description Using its navigation cameras, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured the five stereo pairs of images that make up this panorama on Feb. 2, 2026, the 1,762nd day, or sol, of the mission. A ...