Tag: Mars exploration
On its first try, China’s Zhurong rover hit a Mars milestone that took NASA decades
Picture: CNSA
China’s Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet.
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So a helicopter flew on Mars for the first time. A space physicist explains why that’s such a big deal
Picture: NASA/AP
On Tuesday at 9pm Australian Eastern standard time, the Ingenuity helicopter — which landed on Mars with the Perseverance rover in February — took off from...
Perseverance: the Mars rover searching for ancient life, and the Aussie scientists who helped build it
The Perseverance Rover (Mars 2020) installed within
the upper stage of the United Launch Alliance rocket that will
send it to Mars from...