The "Skycrane" maneuver that will soon place Perseverance on Mars' surface was once considered a crazy idea — even within NASA.

When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars this afternoon, the robot will owe its safe passage to one of the most unlikely pieces of technology developed since the dawn of the Space Age: the ...

Then, a "skycrane," which was also used by Curiosity, will allow Perseverance to lower itself onto the surface. When the rover finally lands, it will touch down on its wheels at a speed slower ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has successfully landed on the surface of Mars, transmitting telemetry information and the first images of its landing site. A low-resolution driving-camera image shows a ...

A jetpack called Skycrane gently lowered Perseverance to the ground on a set of cables from 66 feet above the surface, and took a picture of the process. Once it landed, ...

NASA's incredible multipart landing sequence for the Perseverance rover involves a parachute, a jetpack, and a contraption called a skycrane.

The descent stage known as the "skycrane" lowered Perseverance to the ground. It hovered for a moment, then flew off to crash a safe distance away. Al Chen: And there goes the descent stage.

On Thursday morning, NASA launched its new Mars rover, Perseverance, ... It’s mounted to a so-called skycrane, a rocket-powered hovercraft that will guide the rover to a soft landing.

On Feb. 18, the Mars rover Perseverance will attempt a daring skycrane landing similar to one aced by its predecessor Curiosity August 2012, and an epic NASA video shows exactly how it'll be done ...

The descent stage lowers Perseverance to the ground via a "skycrane" -- like a reverse claw machine, dropping a toy, rather than trying to pick it up.

Perseverance has now broken previous rovers’ records for the distance traveled in one day by driving 319.8 meters on Sol 351. Curiosity made a number of drives over 100 meters, but none over 200 ...

The debris was part of the equipment that helped the Perseverance mission safely land on the red planet in 2021. By Kenneth Chang The object resembles a flying saucer that crashed on Mars. And ...