When NASA's Curiosity rover arrived at the "sulfate-bearing unit" last fall, scientists thought they'd seen the last evidence that lakes once covered this region of Mars.
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.
Curiosity successfully followed her tracks and is back near the Encanto drill site!
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.
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, approximately 1,115 feet (340 meters) away from the rover.
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.
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 investigating.
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) clouds to form.
The Sol 3727 drive went well, positioning the rover at the transition in the Marker Band that was the goal of the drive.
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 system.
Mars is a dusty planet. From tiny dust devils to vast storms that shroud the planet, dust is a constant challenge for research missions.
Yogi, Paddington and Winnie the Pooh, move over. There's a new bear in town.
Less than six weeks after it began, construction of the first sample depot on another world is complete.
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 Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) instrument.
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.
What do the Perseverance rover and Superman have in common? They both can "see" through solid rock!
