can get its wheels onto martian ground. "We’ll lift up the left petal of the lander, retract the airbag, then let the petal back down," said Art Thompson, rover tactical uplink lead at NASA’s Jet ...
This video explored the story of Spirit, the Mars rover that was expected to last 90 days but ended up surviving six years on the red planet. It showed how NASA used an unconventional airbag landing ...
On Aug. 6, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface. Curiosity is NASA's biggest and most ambitious Mars rover ever launched. Its landing involved a new kind of ...