can get its wheels onto martian ground. "We’ll lift up the left petal of the lander, retract the airbag, then let the petal back down," said Art Thompson, rover tactical uplink lead at NASA’s Jet ...
When Spirit dropped through the thin Martian air and bounced to a stop inside Gusev Crater, it did more than survive a ...
On Aug. 6, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface. Curiosity is NASA's biggest and most ambitious Mars rover ever launched. Its landing involved a new kind of ...