Mysterious yellow crystals on Mars may soon have an explanation

NASA's Curiosity rover found pure sulfur crystals inside a rock after backing over and accidentally crushing it on May 30, ...

Scientists Built a Mars Rover That “Swims” Through Sand

A Sahara desert lizard has inspired a new approach to Mars rover mobility. The research could lead to more capable explorers ...

NASA considers sending a spare Mars rover to the moon to rev up preparations for lunar base

An engineering development version of the NASA rovers currently operating on Mars takes a spin at the Jet Propulsion ...

Curiosity, Perseverance and Promise? NASA May Send a Mars Rover to the Moon.

As part of plans to establish a lunar base, the space agency may send to the moon a spare test version of the rover — as well ...
IEEE

Autonomous Field-Monitoring Rover for Early Detection of Cattle Health Anomalies Using Yolov8 and Thermal Imaging

Abstract: Health monitoring in cattle in most cattle rearing systems is done manually by visual inspection, which is inefficient in larger or open-field settings. Accordingly, symptoms of FMD and LSD ...
Frontiers

Legged robot could accelerate resource prospecting on the Moon and the search for life on Mars

Legged robot performing analogue tests in Marslabor at the University of Basel. Credit: Dr Tomaso Bontognali. Dr Gabriela Ligeza is a former PhD student from the University of Basel and now a ...
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Perseverance rover - Mars helicopter manoeuvre captured

NASA's Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z camera captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 47th Mars flight. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Terminal ...
NPR

A hardworking spacecraft in Mars orbit has gone dark

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shannon Curry, principal investigator on NASA's MAVEN mission, about the spacecraft's decade of observations of Mars. NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is officially dead. MAVEN ...
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New Range Rover compared with the L405 in real use

A few days with the new 2022 Range Rover provide the basis for this side-by-side comparison with the previous L405 model. The video looks at day-to-day ownership impressions and how the latest Range ...
IEEE

Charge-Conserving Current Correction in Particle-in-Cell Codes Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Abstract: In particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, the electromagnetic model requires solving Maxwell’s curl equations while preserving charge conservation since violations of the charge continuity ...
SpaceNews

Let’s build the moon base, but not lose sight of Mars

These are heady days for NASA and the space industry. The Artemis 2 crew flew around the moon, traveling farther into space than any humans previously had; NASA announced an ambitious new schedule for ...
Nature

See a helicopter destined for Mars and a spectacular flowery frame for the Milky Way — May’s best science images

A microcosm within. A field of lupines in bloom appears to enclose the Milky Way in this fish-eye perspective from New Zealand. The surreal shot, by Alvin Wu, was one of 25 selected images in the ...