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NASA's most high-tech Mars rover plunged into the red planet's atmosphere Sunday night in an attempt to safely reach the surface with a complex new landing technique.
The most high-tech rover NASA has ever designed was speeding toward Mars on Sunday to attempt an acrobatic landing on the planet's surface.
NASA's most high-tech Mars rover on Sunday zeroed in on the red planet where it will attempt a tricky celestial gymnastics routine during a "seven minutes of terror" plummet through the atmosphere.
After an 8 1/2-month voyage through space, NASA's souped-up Mars spacecraft zoomed toward the red planet for what the agency hopes will be an epic touchdown.
After an 8 1/2-month voyage through space, NASA's souped-up Mars spacecraft zoomed toward the red planet for what the agency hopes will be an epic touchdown.
With weeks to go until its latest mission is due to arrive on the Red Planet, the head of NASA's Mars Exploration Program says his biggest worry is that the spacecraft's heat shield will not detach as planned.
So far, the scorecard for missions to Mars reads attempts 40, successes 14.
The world's biggest extraterrestrial explorer, NASA's Curiosity rover, rocketed toward Mars on Saturday on a search for evidence that the red planet once might have been home to itsy-bitsy life.
A rover of "monster truck" proportions zoomed toward Mars on an 8 1/2-month, 354 million-mile journey Saturday, the biggest, best equipped robot ever sent to explore another planet.
As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, NASA's newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill.
NASA said Friday it will press ahead with plans to launch a supersized rover to Mars next year despite spiraling costs and schedule pressures.
NASA yesterday announced the dates and details for its next mission to Mars, the launch of the Phoenix Mars Lander to the red planet's frozen northern extremes to take soil samples and test for water and other conditions favorable to the development of life.
NASA yesterday announced the dates and details for its next mission to Mars, the launch of the Phoenix Mars Lander to the red planet's frozen northern extremes to take soil samples and test for water and other conditions favorable to the development of life.
"We score and win or we don't score and we don't win," said McCuistion.
