Like much of Mars, the butterscotch plain is inhospitable, empty, ancient, and, when it comes down to it, pretty dull. But a few hundred meters to the south, over a shoal of low, uneven hummocks ...

Elon Musk, who is juggling his Tesla and SpaceX leadership with DOGE, said in a post on X he wants to send rockets to Mars by the end of 2026, followed by rockets carrying humans between 2029 and ...

So too each rover uses its three-jointed arm to wield equipment including a camera and a tool for grinding into Mars rocks. Rock-breaking brings up the essential reason to muse over these robots ...