Houston TX (SPX) Jan 25, 2023 - NASA announced Thursday its new Mars Sample Receiving Project office, responsible for receiving and curating the first samples returned from the Red Planet, will be located at the agency's Johnson S
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2023 - Despite giving it the old college try, Curiosity's attempt to drill into the Marker Band at the Encanto site did not reach sampling depth. Because other rocks around the rover look similar to E
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 - NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has acquired new images using its high-resolution color camera. The camera, which is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage, was pointed approximately 22 degrees below
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 23, 2023 - In the previous plan, Curiosity conducted a preliminary assessment of the potential drill target Encanto (as seen in the above MAHLI image) and today we received the data. The drill preload test a
Victoria, Canada (SPX) Jan 20, 2023 - ALUULA Composites, a new advanced materials technology firm is pleased to report that its ultralight and strong composite materials have been selected by Thin Red Line Aerospace for future NASA miss
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 19, 2023 - Yesterday's plan executed successfully including a short bump that placed us in front of an interesting block that may just contain our next drilled target! Before the science team commits to
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2023 - Minerals are like a time capsule; they provide a record of what the environment was like at the time they formed. Different minerals are linked to different kinds of environments. The temperature, p
Biscay, Spain (SPX) Jan 19, 2023 - Perseverance is a NASA autonomous vehicle that arrived at the Jezero Crater (the bed of an ancient, now dried-up lake on Mars) on 18 February 2021. The rover is equipped with seven novel, complex sc
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 18, 2023 - Curiosity's science and engineering team members were back at it today after a holiday long weekend, while Curiosity itself was ready and waiting after its own soliday weekend. With the data from th
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 18, 2023 - We received the data that we had been missing during Wednesday's planning, so we hit the ground running today, ready to plan for contact science and our drive onto the Marker Band in this new locati
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 - NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has acquired a new image using its high-resolution color camera. The camera, which is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage and pointed approximately 22 degrees below the horizon
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 13, 2023 - What do you see in the picture above - an abandoned lightsaber dropped by a Jedi Knight, lying forgotten amidst the Tattoine sand? It may look like a scene straight out of Star Wars, but sometimes l
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2023 - At this point in the mission, the team is very good at responding to tactical surprises. Today, we did not receive the necessary downlink to proceed with the nominal plan. Fortunately, we received e
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2023 - We continue to characterize the Marker Band and the bedrock just below it, with the aim of understanding the origin of the Marker Band. For today's two-sol plan, in an area below the Marker Band, we
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 - The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich's Philippe Schmitt
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 - Creating geological maps of planetary surfaces such as Mars is a complex process. From data collection to data analysis to publication in different formats - the production of maps is based on a tim
