Take a look at this map. It may come as a shock that the depths of Earth’s oceans are more alien to scientists than the surface of the moon, 240,000 miles away in space. But it’s true: With cameras and sensors, spacecraft have mapped lunar landscape features over the decades. Meanwhile, …
Scaling a mountain, NASA rover sends home glorious Martian view
Extraterrestrial desert. Tens of millions of miles beyond Earth, a nuclear-powered, car-sized rover is climbing a Martian mountain. NASA’s Curiosity rover, while investigating Mars‘ past, has snapped over 683,790 pictures as it’s rumbled over 21 miles of unforgiving desert terrain since 2012, and a recent view shows the <a …