NASA's Dust-Choked InSight Lander Is Running Out of Power on Mars
7 Oct 2022, 21:22 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA's dying InSight lander is having a tough time on Mars. The spacecraft is receiving less and less sunlight, so its power levels are decreasing
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Is Taking a Break, Will Spin Its Blades Again in August
15 Jul 2022, 16:34 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Since now it's winter on Mars, dust levels are higher. That means less sunlight reaches the solar panels of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter
NASA's Perseverance Rover Spots Massive Wind-Lifted Dust Cloud on Mars
2 Jun 2022, 13:40 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / The Perseverance rover has captured some intense dust acitivy in the Jezero Crater on Mars, spotting dust devils and even a massive wind-lifted dust cloud
Poor InSight Lander Can Be Seen Choking on Martian Dust From Space
23 Apr 2022, 05:00 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Martian dust storms are threatening NASA's InSight lander mission. The Mars Reconaissance Orbiter captured an image that shows the spacecraft covered in dust
NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Proves That Nothing Can Stop It, Aces Flight 19 on Mars
8 Feb 2022, 23:25 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Ingenuity's first flight of 2022 had to be delayed due to a big dust storm. But now, after more than a month, the helicoper spun its blades once again
Martian Dust Storm Makes NASA's InSight Spacecraft Go Into Safe Mode
12 Jan 2022, 00:17 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / While dust storms are a regular occurence on the Red Planet, they can last for weeks, blocking the sunshine that powers the spacecraft
NASA InSight Spacecraft Gets Dirty to Boost Its Power Levels on Mars
4 Jun 2021, 09:20 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA InSight Mars lander used its robotic arm to scoop up sand and trickle it next to its solar panels in order to clear them up and gain some energy.
RIP Opportunity: NASA Gives Up on Extraordinary Mars Rover
14 Feb 2019, 11:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA announced it is officially ending efforts to resurrect the Opportunity rover, after more than half a year of failed attempts
NASA Shouts Louder in the Hope of Waking Up the Opportunity Rover
28 Jan 2019, 15:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA is pondering the fact that the one or both of the rover’s primary and secondary X-band radios have failed and the rover's internal clock is offset
Missing Opportunity Rover Would Have Celebrated 15 on Mars on January 24
25 Jan 2019, 10:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Opportunity rover celebrates its 15th anniversary on Mars, despite the fact that contact with it was lost in June last year
NASA Gives Opportunity Until January to Respond, Mission to End If It Doesn’t
3 Sep 2018, 07:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA official says the final deadline for the Opportunity rover to respond might be the end of January 2019, plug to be pulled after that.
NASA Calls Opportunity Three Times a Week, No Response
31 Aug 2018, 10:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA still unable to contact the Opportunity rover following the largest dust storm recorded on Mars in several decades.
Opportunity Rover Now in a Coma, Needs Your Love to Wake Up
17 Aug 2018, 07:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA not giving up on the Opportunity Rover, gives fans the opportunity to create best wishes postcards for the machine.
Opportunity Rover Still Lost on Mars as Huge Dust Storm Subsides
13 Aug 2018, 11:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA still trying to get in touch with the Opportunity rover, nearly two months after it lost contact due to a severe dust storm on Mars
Mars Now Completely Engulfed in Planet-Wide Dust Storm
21 Jun 2018, 15:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the dust storm currently taking place on Mars has reached planetary size, contact with Opportunity still lost.
UPDATE: Unprecedented Mars Dust Storm Might Have Killed the Opportunity Rover
13 Jun 2018, 08:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA to hold a press conference later in the day to announce the fate of the Opportunity rover as it battles an unprecedented dust storm