FARNBOROUGH, England — A possible rover mission to Mars within the next eight years may rely on a larger parachutes, atomic clocks and inflatable decelerators, NASA's Mars exploration chief says. With ...
Come 2030, Europe is poised to land its first-ever rover on Mars, joining the five American and a Chinese one already there. But for that to happen, the European Space Agency (ESA) has to nail the ...
A giant parachute built for Europe's beleaguered ExoMars mission has aced a drop test with a mock lander during a test campaign in the Arctic. The double parachute system consists of a 50-foot-wide ...
On May 25, 2008, NASA's Phoenix lander arrived on Mars. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Phoenix was NASA's sixth mission to successfully land on Mars, and it was the first mission ...