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Sep 26, 2023 · Phobos is 13.8 miles across, and Deimos is 7.8 miles across. When astronauts travel to Mars and back, their vehicle will return home with more than a billion miles on its odometer — more than a thousand times the distance that Artemis I traveled. Example roundtrip mission to Mars in 2039.
Feb 18, 2021 · The NASA Perseverance rover safely landed on Mars after its 292.5 million-mile journey from Earth, the agency confirmed at 3:55 p.m. ET Thursday. The rover landed itself flawlessly, according...
Feb 18, 2021 · During the end of its cruise phase, Perseverance was zooming toward Mars at a blazing 12,100 miles an hour—much too fast to land safely. Once it hit the Martian atmosphere, the drag on the...
Nov 2, 2024 · Raw images of Mars taken by the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars helicopter in Jezero Crater.
Feb 18, 2022 · For all of the challenges Perseverance overcame in its first year on the red planet, the most difficult may be yet to come: returning samples of Mars to Earth. NASA’s Perseverance rover made...
This animated orbital-map view shows the route NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has taken since its February 2021 landing at Jezero Crater to July 2024, when it took its “Cheyava Falls” sample. As of October 2024, the rover has driven over 30 kilometers (18.65 miles), and has collected 24 samples of rock and regolith as well as one air sample.
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Feb 18, 2021 · It will be around 10 sols - or Martian days which are about 40 minutes longer than Earth days - before Nasa plans to deploy its onboard helicopter. It will be the first remote flight on another...