Pasadena CA (JPL) May 27, 2020 - Mars is a long way from 221B Baker Street, but one of fiction's best-known detectives will be represented on the Red Planet after NASA's Perseverance rover touches down on Feb. 18, 2021. SHERLOC, an
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 27, 2020 - Five years after NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere. These cu
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 22, 2020 - Progress continues to speed along as NASA's Perseverance rover readies for its launch this summer. On May 11, the rover team at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida received the tubes tasked
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 20, 2020 - By studying the chemical elements on Mars today - including carbon and oxygen - scientists can work backwards to piece together the history of a planet that once had the conditions necessary to supp
Cleveland OH (SPX) May 20, 2020 - It's rocky. It's sandy. It's flat. It's cratered. It's cold. The surface of Mars is a challenging and inhospitable place, especially for rovers. As future missions t
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 19, 2020 - While auto manufacturers built over 92 million motor vehicles for this world in 2019, NASA built just one for Mars. The Perseverance Mars rover is one of a kind, and the testing required to get it r
Lancaster UK (SPX) May 19, 2020 - The mystery of some lava-like flows on Mars has been solved by scientists who say they are caused not by lava but by mud. There are tens of thousands of these landforms on the Martian surface,
Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 19, 2020 - Scientists have long suspected that the 'fire-breathing' volcanoes that spread large quantities of flowing lava over Mars were not the only kind. The numerous mountain cones in the northern hemisphe
Paris (ESA) May 18, 2020 - The second ExoMars mission, scheduled for launch to the Red Planet in 2022, is taking advantage of the extra time to upgrade some of the rover's instruments and get ready for the next parachute high
Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 15, 2020 - These images show a landscape deformed by strong tectonic activity in the area north of Labeatis Fossae in the Tempe Terra region of Mars. They were acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HR
Paris (ESA) May 15, 2020 - Nature is a powerful sculptor - as shown in this image from ESA's Mars Express, which portrays a heavily scarred, fractured martian landscape. This terrain was formed by intense and prolonged forces
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 14, 2020 - Earth-based experiments on iron-sulfur alloys thought to comprise the core of Mars reveal details about the planet's seismic properties for the first time. This information will be compared to obser
Atlanta GA (SPX) May 14, 2020 - The rolling hills of Mars or the moon are a long way from the nearest tow truck. That's why the next generation of exploration rovers will need to be good at climbing hills covered with loose materi
San Antonio, TX (SPX) May 12, 2020 - A Southwest Research Institute scientist modeled the atmosphere of Mars to help determine that salty pockets of water present on the Red Planet are likely not habitable by life as we know it on Eart
Houston TX (SPX) May 12, 2020 - everal recent observations of Mars have hinted that it might presently harbor liquid water, a requirement for life as we know it. However, in a new paper in Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers h
Albuquerque NM (SPX) May 12, 2020 - The rims of large impact craters on Mars are even more unusual than we thought. In recent research published in the prestigious scientific journal Geology,* lead author Larry Crumpler, planetary g
