China’s next Mars explorer is not a rover that crawls or a helicopter that hovers, but a hybrid drone that can roll across the ground and then leap into the thin air when terrain turns hostile. By ...

Ingenuity was originally planned to perform just five short test flights on Mars over 30 days — yet it went on to complete 72 flights over nearly three years, covering more than 17 kilometres and ...

All robotic missions on Mars have been limited to the actual surface -- rovers like Curiosity are reliable, but their range is limited. While Curiosity has driven more than 10 miles on the Martian ...