Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 20, 2023 - To quote our project scientist, Ashwin, it was clear when we assessed our downlink that Curiosity had almost literally taken two steps forward and one steps back during the drive in our previous p
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 20, 2023 - A planetary scientist at NAU is part of a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission to travel to Mars and survey the planet's two moons, including collecting a sample from one and returni
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 19, 2023 - Years in the making, a major software update that has been installed on NASA's Curiosity rover will enable the Mars robot to drive faster and reduce wear and tear on its wheels. Those are just two o
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 18, 2023 - Here in Toronto, the weather feels like summer. But in Gale Crater it's coming towards the end of Autumn. At this time of year, we enter Aphelion Cloud Belt season, when we see regular formation of
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 18, 2023 - This past week, Perseverance has been exploring the top of the western fan in Jezero crater. Scientists have been waiting a long time to examine, up close, one of the terrains observed in this area:
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 14, 2023 - The history-making rotorcraft has recently been negotiating some of the most hazardous terrain it's encountered on the Red Planet. NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed its 50th fligh
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 13, 2023 - As you can see in the above image, the terrain our rover drivers is navigating is challenging - slippery sand surrounding big, wheel-unfriendly rocks. These contrasting regimes contributed to us not
Houston (AFP) April 12, 2023 - Four small rooms, a gym and a lot of red sand - NASA unveiled on Tuesday its new Mars-simulation habitat, in which volunteers will live for a year at a time to test what life will be like on future missions to Earth's neighbor.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2023 - As Ken noted in his recent blog, our beloved rover spent much of the last week completing a software upgrade while the science team met virtually to synthesize and discuss results. That upgrad
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 06, 2023 - Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global image of the Red Planet that was made at Caltech using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Cliffsides, impact craters, and du
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 06, 2023 - After spending over 700 sols (Martian days) exploring the crater floor and delta front, Perseverance is making tracks up the front of the Jezero fan, climbing across stratigraphic layers, up and out
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 04, 2023 - An issue at a Deep Space Network station prevented the Sol 3785 plan from being sent to Mars, so none of those planned activities occurred. But the rover is in a good location and orientation for th
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 02, 2023 - NASA's Perseverance rover cored and stored the first sample of the mission's newest science campaign on Thursday, March 30. With each campaign, the team explores and studies a new area. On this one,
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 02, 2023 - NASA's Perseverance rover is now exploring the upper surface of the Western Fan in Jezero crater, having completed a very successful one Mars year Prime Mission. It has sealed 22 of the 43 sample tu
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 02, 2023 - MOXIE, the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, is a Perseverance Rover payload on Mars. MOXIE uses a scroll pump to capture the thin, carbon-dioxide dominate air of Mars and flows i
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 31, 2023 - The film we are presenting as a special edition of our 'Mars image of the month' series offers a virtual flight over the Jezero impact crater and its surroundings, the landing site of NASA's Perseve
