SuperCam fires a pulsed laser beam out of the rover's mast, or "head," to vaporize small portions of rock from a distance, providing information that will be essential to the mission's success.

As part of their mission to explore Mars, NASA launched twin robotic rovers on June 10 and July 7, 2003. For landing, each rover was encased in a beachball-like apparatus with a parachute attached.

During the summer of 2003, NASA launched twin robotic rovers named Spirit and Opportunity.

NASA’s next Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, were each the size of a golf cart.

The U.S. has launched its next-generation Mars rover in search of potential signs of life on the red planet.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has been attached to the top of the rocket that will send it toward the Red Planet this summer.

Rover operators rely on special three-dimensional goggles to help them drive Curiosity over the Martian landscape.

Small rovers landed on Mars and found evidence that long ago water flowed freely on the Martian surface.

City are top of the league table, followed by Rovers in second place and Town in third.

The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will also characterize the planet's climate and geology, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first planetary mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.