Dive into the story of NASA’s Opportunity Rover on Mars! From groundbreaking discoveries to the challenges of a global dust ...

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

You might have heard about plans to establish a self‑sustaining city on Mars. Here’s what life would really be like on the ...

A nasty dust storm is wrapping around Mars, and visibility in some regions is so poor that the skies look like night during the middle of the day. It's a dire moment for NASA's Opportunity rover ...

"When the first humans arrive on Mars, a global dust storm could completely wreck the mission," he says. "So we want to understand if we can predict those storms." Planetary geologist Matt ...

On 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the Red Planet.

global dust storm enveloped Mars and dropped sunlight levels reaching the rover’s solar panels to critical levels. Now, in a late-evening/night update yesterday at 16:30 PDT (2330 UTC ...

Dust storms on Mars could behave similarly to dry cyclones. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

Related: Massive Mars Dust Storm Won't Stop NASA's Next Lander The instrument could be mounted between a spacecraft's landing legs or deployed during the descent process such that it gathers ...

On Mars, Bell says, a fast-moving wind can only ... they would have eroded the landscape down a long time ago.” The last real life global dust storm hit the Martian surface in 2007.

A global dust storm on Mars is threatening the future of NASA's Opportunity rover, the longest-lived robot on that planet. The golf-cart-size vehicle launched toward Mars in June 2003, landed in ...