Paris (ESA) Nov 13, 2023 - When future astronauts explore Mars's polar regions, they will see a green glow lighting up the night sky. For the first time, a visible nightglow has been detected in the martian atmosphere by ESA'
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 12, 2023 - As Earth and Mars find themselves on opposite sides of the Sun - a biennial astronomical event known as the Mars solar conjunction - NASA's intrepid Mars fleet braces for a two-week communication hi
Liege, Belgium (SPX) Nov 10, 2023 - An international team led by scientists from the University of Liege has observed, for the first time in the visible range, a glow on the night side of the planet Mars. These new observations provid
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 09, 2023 - The Mars InSight mission, since its inception, has shed light on the seismic vibrancy of the Red Planet. The mission's deployment of a seismic station has led to the recording of 98 low-frequency se
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 08, 2023 - Earth planning date: Monday, November 6: It is a time of milestones for Curiosity, with the passage of Sol 4000 over the weekend (celebrated here and here) and the start of her sixth solar conjuncti
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 07, 2023 - Four thousand Martian days after setting its wheels in Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover remains busy conducting exciting science. The rover recently drilled its 39th sample then d
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2023 - As Perseverance continues to wrap up its current activities at Turquoise Bay where it collected a new sample for possible return to Earth, the Mars 2020 team is getting ready for Perseverance to app
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 02, 2023 - In a groundbreaking collaborative effort, a new study drawing on the collective efforts of citizen scientists has shed light on the intricate patterns of Martian clouds. The research, fueled by cont
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 01, 2023 - Earth planning date: Monday, October 30, 2023: Mondays are scary enough, so the team was extra spooked when the morning's downlink showed our incoming power state as lower than what we planned. Ghos
College Park MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2023 - NASA's InSight mission to Mars helped scientists map out Mars' internal structure, including the size and composition of its core, and provided general hints about its tumultuous formation. Bu
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2023 - Buried ice will be a vital resource for the first people to set foot on Mars, serving as drinking water and a key ingredient for rocket fuel. But it would also be a major scientific target: Astronau
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 27, 2023 - The Curiosity rover team has been preparing for the start of the Solar Conjunction in November, when contact with all Mars spacecraft will be impossible for three weeks since Mars will be behind the
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 26, 2023 - For four years, NASA's InSight lander recorded tremors on Mars with its seismometer. Researchers at ETH Zurich collected and analysed the data transmitted to Earth to determine the planet's internal
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 26, 2023 - The Mars 2020 team has been exploring a new area of the Margin Unit at Jezero Crater, where distinct carbonate signatures have been observed from orbit. Importantly, carbonates that form in rocks ca
University Park PA (SPX) Oct 25, 2023 - New analysis of data from the Curiosity rover reveals that much of the craters on Mars today could have once been habitable rivers. We're finding evidence that Mars was likely a planet of riv
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2023 - Earth planning date: Monday, October 23, 2023: Over the weekend, the activity to prepare SAM to receive and analyze the Sequoia drill sample did not quite go as planned, so we had to rearrange tod
