Does the revised Mars architecture address the goals of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program and optimize the science return, given the current fiscal posture of the program? THE MARS ARCHITECTURE AND THE ...

For the first time in more than 30 years, NASA has no firm plans to send any new landers or rovers to Mars. Instead, the agency’s near-term focus at the red planet is on aerial drones, a pioneering ...

For decades, it has passed over Mars like a rumor, glimpsed only sparingly by rovers and orbiters, its shadowy face watching down over Mars’ vermilion seas of sand and dust in silence. Phobos, named ...