The little space copter that could finally puttered out. But our hopes for stepping on Martian soil? That keeps chugging along. An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet’s surface. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)...
By exploring Mars, we have taken a step closer to understanding humankind. Did life begin on the Red Planet? Could we one day live there? The first high-resolution, color image sent by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after its landing on 18 February 2021...