WASHINGTON (voa) – Controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrated Saturday night after receiving confirmation that the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit had landed successfully on Mars. A U.S.

History isn’t always loud or obvious. Sometimes it’s a newspaper hitting a doorstep, a law quietly signed, a spacecraft blasting off, or even a car tumbling into a ditch on a back road in Texas. But ...

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its panoramic camera to take the images combined into this mosaic view of the rover. The downward-looking view omits the mast on which the camera is mounted.

Two years ago, the Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit, touched down in Gusev Crater. The rover marked its first Mars-year (687 Earth Days) anniversary in November 2005. Shortly before its martian ...

It was a “big deal” for NASA when two so-called Rovers landed safely on Mars. “Spirit” was supposed to be good for just three months and a few hundred yards, but it lasted for 6 years and traveled ...

NASA scientists aren't the only ones roving Mars. At the Challenger Learning Center, Midlands students can also take a look at the red planet. When students enter the center they become NASA’s newest ...

As space agencies race to set foot on the Moon, Mars, and elsewhere, a not-so-glamorous problem could be the key to success: the functionality of a rover's wheels in alien dirt. When NASA's Spirit ...

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a ...