NASA's Perseverance rover almost had to let go of a precious drill bit on Mars after an attempt to collect a rock sample went ...

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ... previously tested and successfully used: the Sky Crane landing system that had been used to lower ...

The extraordinary landing of a revolutionary ... In its search for life beyond Earth, NASA employs a "sky crane" maneuver to land the Curiosity rover on Mars. (Program not available for streaming.) ...

Practice shots at a Mars landing are vanishingly rare ... Jet Propulsion Laboratory tests the sky crane descent system, which will gently lower Mars 2020 to the Red Planet’s surface.

Mars is the Bermuda Triangle of ... making it difficult for the rover to drive away after landing. Eventually, the team arrived at a solution: a sky crane. “You stay attached, come out together ...