NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the red planet ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Thanks in part to the science collected by Spirit and Opportunity, NASA approved development of the SUV-size Curiosity rover to investigate whether the chemical ...

On January 3, 2004, NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity.

A similar fate is in store for the Ingenuity helicopter as well as China’s Zhurong rover, which is now exploring Utopia Planitia. NASA’s Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity rovers stopped ...

NASA’s Spirit rover stopped transmitting data from the surface of Mars ... Spirit is one-half of an $820 million mission. Its twin, Opportunity, is expected to land on Mars late Saturday. The twin ...

Yutu-2 is still operating. NASA's Perseverance rover captured a selfie including its helicopter friend Ingenuity by stitching together a bunch of photos. Landing on Mars in 2004, the twin rovers ...

It has been used in the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover mission robots Spirit and Opportunity, on the 2012 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission's rover Curiosity, and the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance.

The American space agency says it is concerned but hopeful that its veteran robot rover on Mars can survive a big dust storm on the planet. The 15-year-old vehicle, known as Opportunity ...

On this date, Jan. 24, 1986, Voyager 2 began beaming images from Uranus, giving scientists unprecedented data and insights about the solar system’s seventh planet. Information from the probe showed ...

Today is Saturday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2025. There are 340 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 25, 2004, NASA’s Opportunity rover landed on Mars and sent its first pictures of the ...