Today's Mars rovers typically drive at about 500 to 1,000 feet per hour — roughly the length of one to three football fields — and only for short stints at a time. NASA engineers say they could go so much longer and faster if they could only think more for themselves.

The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged particles from a solar storm," according to NASA. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL

This large dust devil in the center consumed a smaller nearby dust devil on Mars in January. Future human visitors to Mars will have to deal with an unfriendly planet. It’s dusty. It’s windy. Sometimes those two factors come together in a swirling ...

A map of the Perseverance Mars rover marathon – credit, NASA. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover just completed a special milestone as it recently marked 5 years on the Red Planet

To prepare for China's first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, the China Academy of Space Technology built a simulated Martian landscape on Earth and took the new rover out for a test drive. The Tianwen-1 Mars mission, which launched to the Red Planet in July and ...

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On June 14, 2026, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover completed a marathon, or 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) as a spacecraft watched from orbit.