Amazing Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Mission (MAVEN )Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph in Mars ! The philosophy of NASA's Mars Program has been "Follow the water," but "Where did the atmosphere go?" is still a lingering question. Although fluvial features such as dry riverbeds are visible on Mars, the atmosphere today is too thin to support liquid water, implying that Mars once had a thicker atmosphere that was lost to space. NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Mission, or MAV

What you are seeing on the Mars surface is not a UFO or alien drone. It is NASA’s Mars helicopter called Ingenuity. Ingenuity arrived on Mars with the Perseverance rover in 2021. Its mission was to: Test powered flight on another planet Take aerial images of the Martian surface Help rovers choose safe paths Mars has very thin air, so Ingenuity uses fast-spinning blades to fly. It became the first aircraft to fly on another planet in history. Ingenuity proved that flight on Mars is possible, open

Perseverance just did something it’s never done before. On Dec. 8 and 10, 2025, the Mars rover completed drives planned by AI – not human mission planners. In a first-of-its-kind demonstration, generative AI created navigation waypoints for the rover, a complex decision-making task typically done by teams on Earth. The test hints at a future where planetary exploration is more efficient and delivers even more science. Learn more: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-rover-completes-f

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence. The demonstration hints at a future of more efficient exploration and even more science. “The fundamental elements of generative AI are showing a lot of promise in streamlining the pillars of autonomous navigation for off-planet driving: perception (seeing the rocks and ripples), localization (knowing where we are), and planning and control (deciding and executing the safe