Compared to the lifeless landscape of the Atacama Desert, the ARADS camp kitchen is a lively, colorful place.
A team member on NASA’s ARADS project sets up a communications satellite dish as the sun sets on a long…
The Milky Way is visible from the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, where NASA’s ARADS team has set up camp…
This rover prototype, designed by NASA’s Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies, or ARADS, team, is helping test the tools and…
The ARADS rover was designed with a potential life-detection mission to Mars in mind and is equipped with a drill…
This rover is being put through its paces in California, at NASA’s Ames Research Center, before “graduating” to the very…
This week in 2007, the space shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-117, landed at Edwards Air Force Base following the completion of…
A sandy soil sample pours into the collection scoop, in this close-up of the ARADS life-detection rover at work during…
The ARADS rover prototype features a robotic arm that is programmed to collect soil samples from the rover’s drill and…
