Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 - NASA's Curiosity rover has found wave-rippled rocks - evidence of an ancient lake - in an area of the planet expected to be drier, the US space agency said Wednesday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2023 - Curiosity successfully followed her tracks and is back near the Encanto drill site! With a beautiful workspace in view, the science and operations team had a busy day of planning on the Marker band
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 05, 2023 - Today we made a three-sol plan for the weekend including contact science, lot of imaging, and a long drive back toward the previously attempted marker band drill target, Encanto. After additional ex
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2023 - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover took an image on December 18th, 2022, during its 650th day of mission that captured the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity near the base of Jezero Crater's river delta, approxi
Paris (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 - War, budget cuts, a pandemic and a crash: For all its trials, Europe's ExoMars mission might be more deserving of the name Perseverance than NASA's Martian rover.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 03, 2023 - The drive in our last plan took us to an area that appeared somewhat smoother and brighter from orbit (as well as from drive direction imaging) on the so-called Marker band that we have been inves
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 03, 2023 - Mars clouds are very much like Earth's cirrus clouds but thinner. While Earth clouds can contain liquid water, the low temperatures and pressures on Mars only allow for water-ice (and CO2 ice) cloud
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 01, 2023 - The Sol 3727 drive went well, positioning the rover at the transition in the Marker Band that was the goal of the drive. As expected, we did not receive enough image data to allow DRT brushing to be
Berlin, Germany (DLR) Feb 01, 2023 - January's 'Mars Image of the Month' reveals a geologically complex region on the flanks of Thaumasia Planum, an extensive volcanic plateau in the highlands southeast of the Valles Marineris valley s
Hoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 - Mars is a dusty planet. From tiny dust devils to vast storms that shroud the planet, dust is a constant challenge for research missions. That was especially true for Ingenuity, the rotorcraft that s
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2023 - Less than six weeks after it began, construction of the first sample depot on another world is complete. Confirmation that NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully dropped the 10th and final tube
Los Angeles (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 - Yogi, Paddington and Winnie the Pooh, move over. There's a new bear in town. Or on Mars, anyway.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2023 - Scientists working on the Perseverance Mars 2020 rover mission have uncovered new insights about dust devils on the Red Planet, thanks to the meteorological sensors on the Mars Environmental Dynamic
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 27, 2023 - Your blogger is a little tired right now... I am just back from a field trip to the salt flats in Botswana, guided by colleagues from BIUST University, walking, viewing and sampling in 38C heat. It
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 - What do the Perseverance rover and Superman have in common? They both can see through solid rock! Superman has X-ray vision whereas Perseverance has RIMFAX, a ground penetrating radar or GPR, loca
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2023 - Perseverance and the team recently celebrated one Martian year (668 sols or 687 Earth days) on the Red Planet while continuing to offload sample tubes at the Three Forks depot location. The celebr
