NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity and all the scientific instruments on board to analyse the planet’s environment are due to land on the red planet Sunday.

Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, land on opposite sides of Mars and begin exploring the planet. Since their landing, the rovers have sent more than 100,000 high-resolution, full-color images of the planet’s surface.

Remote Controlled Mars Rover W/ Android App: In this Instructable I will show you how to customize a remote controlled vehicle into a space rover, and also how to create a companion app. Between the rover and the Android application, this project took me about a week and a half to two weeks, w…

Most ‘hobby’ mobile robots on the market are usually of the 2-, 4-, or 6-wheeled variety with no suspension or steering systems. Changes in direction are achieved by varying wheel-speeds – so-called skid or tank steering. Not this one.

Mars rover diorama

Learn about the rover and check out these 5 Mission to Mars activities for the classroom to educate students on this historic event!

Europe’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has a younger ’sibling’ – ExoMy. The blueprints and software for this mini-version of the full-size Mars explorer are available for free so that anyone can 3D print, assemble and program their own ExoMy.

Welcome to TAME Engineering Adventures! Every month we strive to bring you two engineering activities (this month we will provide one warm-up activity and one practice competition activity) that will help you challenge your students with hands-on learning. This January’s Engineering Adventure is to design and build a Mars Rover! This was the 2013 State Engineering […]