Paris, France (SPX) Mar 28, 2024 - Celebrating a significant milestone, ESA's Mars Express has completed its 25,000th orbit around Mars, capturing yet another breathtaking view of the Red Planet to commemorate this achievement. The l
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 27, 2024 - In a major effort, European researchers have completed the most comprehensive geological survey of Mars' Oxia Planum, the designated landing site for the European Space Agency's (ESA) ambitious Rosa
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 26, 2024 - Earth planning date: Friday, March 22, 2024: Sometimes it feels like we all make up the same brain and planning goes smooth as silk. Today I'm thankful it felt like that, because Friday plans have a
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2024 - A unified bipartisan effort led by Representatives Mike Garcia (CA-27), Judy Chu (CA-28), and Adam Schiff (CA-30) has emerged, with a strongly worded letter to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson demandi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2024 - If the Curiosity rover had a song stuck in her head today, she might be humming Back to the uGVR, to the tune of The Beatles Back in the U.S.S.R, as she drives south along the eastern edge of th
Pasadena, CA (JPL) Mar 19, 2024 - It was a fairly calm planning day after a few weeks of activity at Mineral King, with a familiar touch-and-go plan. That's not the only thing that's back to normal - ENV has ended our dust storm wat
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2024 - On March 14, NASA completed the delivery of its innovative gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for its incorporation into the Martian Moons eXploratio
Utrecht, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 15, 2024 - The period that liquid water was present on the surface of Mars may have been shorter than previously thought. Channel landforms called gullies, previously thought to be formed exclusively by liquid
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 15, 2024 - Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 13, 2024: The title of the blog gives away the big news of today - we are go to plan drilling at Mineral King 3. Yay! For those not following along ever
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2024 - At the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, scientists unveiled the discovery of a colossal volcano, provisionally named Noctis volcano, along with a suspected subs
Paris (AFP) Mar 14, 2024 - Humanity must preserve Earth before dreaming of colonising Mars because even nuclear war and unbridled climate change cannot make the red planet more liveable, Barack Obama said Wednesday.
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 14, 2024 - Earlier this year, Madelyn Hoying, a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, and Wing Lam (Nicole) Chan, an MIT senior in aeronautics and astronautics, were part of
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2024 - Earth planning date: Monday, March 11, 2024: Robotic arm downlink chair here! Rather than planning for the next day, I am on the team which assesses data that comes back from the rover and determine
Gainesville FL (SPX) Mar 13, 2024 - Is or was there life on Mars? That profound question is so complex that it will not be fully answered by the two NASA rovers now exploring it. But because of the literal groundwork the rovers
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2024 - Earth planning date: Monday, March 4, 2024: It has been a busy and exciting week for Curiosity and its science team. Our intrepid rover successfully drilled its 40th sample on Mars and today followe
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 05, 2024 - As it trundles around an ancient lakebed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is assembling a one-of-a-kind rock collection. The car-sized explorer is methodically drilling into the Red Planet's surfa
