Based on all the dust Ingenuity helicopter kicked up, a team of researchers has completed the first real-world study of…
In January 2004, NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity (aka “Oppy”) landed in two completely different locations on Mars. Their missions…
Researchers from the CMU's Robotic Institute have developed a new method that allows rovers to autonomously weigh risk against the…
A recent blog by Dr. Justin Maki, Imaging Scientist and the Deputy Principal Investigator on the Perseverance rover Mastcam-Z camera,…
In 2018, Mars experienced one of its global dust storms, a phenomenon seen nowhere else. As science would have it,…
Opportunity's final message home is not much to look at on its own. If you're old enough to remember film…
I recently had the honor of attending a Nat Geo Live talk hosted by Kobie Boykins. As NASA JPL's chief…
Sad. But beautiful. NASA has shared Opportunity's final photograph from the surface of Mars. The rover's final resting place is…
A few weeks after Curiosity suffered a glitch that put it in safe mode, the rover is once again operating…
NASA's Opportunity rover has reached the end of its life. Initially designed to last 90 days, and to travel only…