These sparks happen from accumulation of static electric charge—often arising from two different materials rubbing together.

NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational ...

So Nasa has been testing new drone technology in a part of the Death Valley National Park, in California, USA. The area, ...

NASA is training a dog-shaped robot named LASSIE-M for missions on Mars. The goal of NASA researchers is to develop a robot ...

Scientists are testing advanced drones and robot dogs in some of Earth's toughest deserts to prepare for autonomous ...

NASA is quietly laying the groundwork for a future in which orbiting platforms can build, repair, and even run themselves ...

NASA’s first Mars helicopter turned a risky experiment into a new way of exploring another world, and now its successors are ...

However, the most interesting equipment to be deployed in the future has to be the robodog. Called the Legged Autonomous ...

NASA is testing next-generation Mars drone tech in a place a lot like the Red Planet - California’s Mojave Desert in Death ...

Listen as a dust devil sweeps past the Perseverance rover, producing tiny pops of thunder as it generates sparks of static ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electric sparks in dust devils and storms on Mars, with the US-based space agency ...

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