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NASA's twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were each built to last 90 days. Kept alive by Martian winds that cleaned their solar panels,...
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NASA's twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were each built to last 90 days. Kept alive by Martian winds that cleaned their solar panels,...
In October 2016 Europe's Schiaparelli probe had nearly landed on Mars — surviving entry, parachute, and radar — when a sensor was overwhelmed for...
On November 27, 1971, the Soviet Mars 2 became the first human-made object ever to reach the surface of Mars. It got there the...
On March 1, 1982, a Soviet probe named Venera 13 settled onto the surface of Venus and did something no spacecraft had done before:...
"Venus is a Russian planet." That is what the head of Russia's space agency declared in 2020, and the West largely laughed it off....
NASA's path back to Mars in the 1990s was also its strangest. Instead of firing thrusters to set the spacecraft down gently, engineers wrapped...
The first spacecraft to land safely on Mars was Soviet, not American, and it did not survive. In December 1971 the Mars 3 lander...
SpaceX exists to put humans on Mars, so its shift toward the Moon looks like an admission that the Mars dream has stalled. It...
The fastest spacecraft ever launched. A nine-year journey across three billion miles. A world that, for 85 years, had been almost nothing but a...
It traveled 416 million miles to reach Mars. Then it flew too low into the atmosphere and was torn apart in minutes. The Mars...