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True color image of Mars taken by the OSIRIS instrument on the ESA Rosetta spacecraft during its February 2007 flyby of the planet. The image was generated using the OSIRIS orange (red), green, and bl

Asteroid Trajectory Data Reveals Potential Shortcut to Mars

A new study suggests that analyzing asteroid trajectories could reduce the round-trip travel time to Mars to as little as 153 days.

This image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard Perseverance on April 18, 2023, the 768th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission. The helicopter's firs

NASA JPL Engineers Develop Supersonic Rotor Blades for Mars Helicopters

Testing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirms next-generation rotor blades can exceed Mach 1 without disintegrating.