As part of the Mars 2020 mission and the first aerial vehicle to successfully complete powered flight on another world, Ingenuity revealed some surprising conditions. Surprisingly too perhaps ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid system, shortening its trip ...

Rover launched during pandemic One of the bright spots of the COVID-19 pandemic for Hausrath was knowing that the Mars 2020 mission took flight. Building the rover and launching it came with a hefty ...

With the roughly 20-day wide launch window for the Mars 2020 mission rapidly approaching, the hype train for the next big mission to the Red Planet is really building up steam. And with good ...

The Mars Perseverance will also capture images of the Ingenuity in flight. The Ingenuity left Earth on July 30, 2020, attached to the belly of the Mars Perseverance rover and landed on Mars on ...

And if all goes well, the United Arab Emirates will join that list in the summer of 2020 when its Hope spacecraft heads to the red planet. While there are no plans yet to send humans to Mars ...

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