There's more than one way to put solar panels on top of a vehicle. Jackery's Solar Generator Mars Bot hasn't really been to Mars, but it has been to Las Vegas.

InSight’s twin solar arrays are each 7 feet (2.2 meters) wide; when they’re open, the entire lander is about the size of a big 1960s convertible. Mars has weaker sunlight than Earth because it ...

At the same time, the lander’s two large solar panels experienced very small bumps in power – about 0.7% on one panel and 2.7% on the other – suggesting a tiny amount of dust was lifted.

NASA's InSight lander has been on the red planet since 2018, and it relies on solar panels for power, which means there's the potential for dust build-up. Luckily, JPL engineers devised an ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured evidence of a solar storm's charged particles arriving at the Martian surface in this three-frame video taken by one of the rover's navigation cameras on May ...

Meanwhile, NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter was blasted with energy from the solar particles and had its power temporarily knocked out. It was up and running like normal less than an hour later.

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, prohibiting the flow of charges. This could cause a massive charge buildup in a ...

A nuclear power plant on Mars could solve one of the biggest challenges of space colonization—energy supply. Traditional solar panels, which rely on sunlight, can be unreliable due to Mars ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 29, 2018 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has collaborated with NASA to conduct an assessment on the solar arrays of a robotic spacecraft as part of preparations for its ...