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NASA’s Spirit Rover didn’t land like a normal spacecraft—it bounced! 🔴🎈 Find out why NASA used an inflatable landing system and how it helped unlock the secrets of Mars. Mexico to ...

but a European orbiter called Mars Express arrived safely. So did Spirit and then, three weeks later, Opportunity. After slamming into the atmosphere and descending by parachute, each rover ...

Mars has global dust storms, which are unique," Holcomb explained. "A single storm can literally travel across the entire globe. On top of that, there are local dust storms. The Spirit Rover ...

In January 2004, Spirit and Opportunity, two identical robotic rovers, entered the martian atmosphere and landed after a seven-month journey from Earth. By the time "Is There Life on Mars?" ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with ...

A study using radar data from China's now-dead Zhurong rover finds strong evidence that Mars had a stable ocean in the ancient past. Credit: Victor Habbick Visions / Science Photo Library / Getty ...

The evidence comes from data collected by China’s Zhurong Mars rover, which landed in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars in 2021. Unlike other rovers traversing the planet, Zhurong arrived with ...

In 2012, NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity photographed an outcrop with sedimentary structures resembling Earth's cross-bedded sandstones. The cross bedding, with large-scale layers sloping to the left, ...

An international team of scientists used data from China's Zhurong Mars rover to unearth hidden layers of rock underneath the planet’s surface that strongly suggest the presence of an ancient ...

Today, we know of Mars as a cold, dry desert ... In November 2022, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged the Amapari Marker Band in the foothills of Mount Sharp, located in Gale Crater.