Spirit Rover | Fun Facts About The Mars Exploration Rover
The Twin That Got Beached! The Spirit Rover is one of two Mars Exploration Rovers (along with its twin Opportunity) sent to the Red Planet in 2003 by NASA. Solar…
The Soviet Venera Program – The First Planetary Landers
Exploring Venus The Venera series of robotic space probes were developed and launched by the Soviet Union. The probes were sent to study Venus with later missions launched in pairs…
Space Probes That Landed On The Surface
Cool Landers And Rovers! One of the most difficult space exploration missions for scientists to design and execute is to successfully achieve a ‘soft touchdown’ on a distant planet, moon,…
The InSight Martian Lander
Probing Mars’ Deep Interior NASA's InSight Mars mission is a soft lander equipped with a seismometer and heat transfer probe to perform geophysical studies of Mars’ deep interior. The InSight…