The little chopper is supposed to send regular data to its buddy Perseverance but missed one of the scheduled communications sessions last week.
NASA’s Curiosity rover is puttering around on Mars trying to find signs of life, and in the meantime, has provided material for a new video of a 360-degree panoramic tour.
There’s been some mysterious rumbling coming from inside Mars. Scientists, with the help of the InSight Lander, are busy figuring out what it could mean.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has the ability to capture some pretty high-res images, and these are just the beginning.
Remember how the fictional dilithium crystals were used to make travel faster than the speed of light in Star Trek: The Next Generation? Well those crystals – or crystals with an uncanny similarity to them – may be coming to the real world in one of the best instances of art imitating life that we’ve ever seen.
In my opinion this is a far more exciting countdown than the Olympics; in 40 days, NASA’s nuclear powered Curiosity rover will enter the Martian atmosphere, and the landing is the most nerve-racking part for the engineers.