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
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
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
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
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
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 - 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
