The ARADS astrobiology rover, navigating autonomously, leaves its tracks in 2017 on a very Mars-like landscape, in this photo from…
The driest place on Earth, with very few microorganisms to be found in the soil, Chile’s Atacama Desert offers NASA…
The ARADS team’s base camp in the Atacama Desert includes a simple structure where team meetings are held, science samples…
Compared to the lifeless landscape of the Atacama Desert, the ARADS camp kitchen is a lively, colorful place.
A team member on NASA’s ARADS project sets up a communications satellite dish as the sun sets on a long…
The Milky Way is visible from the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, where NASA’s ARADS team has set up camp…
This rover prototype, designed by NASA’s Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies, or ARADS, team, is helping test the tools and…
The ARADS rover was designed with a potential life-detection mission to Mars in mind and is equipped with a drill…
This rover is being put through its paces in California, at NASA’s Ames Research Center, before “graduating” to the very…
This week in 2007, the space shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-117, landed at Edwards Air Force Base following the completion of…
