Engineer Dean Bergman works on the ARADS rover during recent field tests in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
The Moon rises over the ARADS team, working with its prototype Mars rover in the Atacama Desert, during the 2018…
Arwen Dave, a systems engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center, uses an anemometer to find the wind speed during field…
The battery-powered ARADS rover is plugged in for a recharge during field testing in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
The ARADS astrobiology rover, navigating autonomously, leaves its tracks in 2017 on a very Mars-like landscape, in this photo from…
The driest place on Earth, with very few microorganisms to be found in the soil, Chile’s Atacama Desert offers NASA…
The ARADS team’s base camp in the Atacama Desert includes a simple structure where team meetings are held, science samples…
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…
