So did Spirit and then, three weeks later, Opportunity. After slamming into the atmosphere and descending by parachute, each rover inflated a cushion of air bags, fired a retro-rocket, and free ...

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 ...

The findings are the result of the ongoing studies performed by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been scouring the red ...

The rover was encased in an aeroshell for the ... The robot looks a lot like Nasa's Spirit and Opportunity vehicles from the 2000s. It weighs some 240kg and is powered by fold-out solar panels.

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.

On this date, Jan. 24, 1986, Voyager 2 began beaming images from Uranus, giving scientists unprecedented data and insights ...

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 ...

China lands its Zhurong rover on Mars Chinese Mars rover returns ... The robot looks a lot like the American space agency's (Nasa) Spirit and Opportunity vehicles from the 2000s.

Launched in 2003, Opportunity was sent to Mars to look for ancient water, and during its almost 15-year mission, the rover traversed more than 28 miles of the red planet's surface. The rover ...