Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 - The largest earthquake ever detected on Mars has revealed layers in its crust that could indicate past collision with a massive object, such as a meteoroid. Previous data has suggested the past occu
Stanford CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2022 - Among the mountainous dunes and small, undulating ripples of Mars' desert-like surface are sand structures, intermediate in size, that are not quite like anything on Earth. Stanford University
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 15, 2022 - In yesterday's blog, Natalie Moore wrote of our continued attempts to drill Amapari and word from our beloved rover that our drill was still on the ground when data arrived from Mars. Today we rec
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 14, 2022 - Recently a combination of instruments on the Perseverance rover has experienced a dust devil in a new way. The SuperCam Microphone recorded the sound of a dust devil while the navigation camera snap
Paris (AFP) Dec 13, 2022 - The sound of a dust devil on Mars was recorded for the first time as the eye of the whirlwind swept over the top of NASA's Perseverance rover, a new study said Tuesday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 12, 2022 - On Wednesday, we uplinked a drill plan, to drill the target Amapari in the Marker Band. Coming into planning this morning, we learned that the drill was only able to penetrate 7 mm into the hard r
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 09, 2022 - The weekend drive went well and Curiosity is back on top of the marker band, investigating some intriguing rippled bedrock. We're assessing whether we want to drill at this location, based on what w
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 09, 2022 - After yesterday's check-out, Curiosity is GO to attempt to make our 37th drill hole on Mars. The prior plan's DRT cleaned up our target Amapari beautifully - it is in the middle of the clean area in
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 08, 2022 - NASA's Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest samples came from a pile of wind-blown sand a
Nashville TN (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 - In the Mojave Desert, the sun beats down on the ground and makes pockets of low pressure. Cool air rushes into these areas, where it warms and rises, creating vortices that pick up dust. These types
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 - The English poet William Blake famously implored readers to see the world in a grain of sand. In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, scientists from the University of Campinas, in Brazil, and th
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 06, 2022 - As happens occasionally, our previous plan did not execute quite as expected. There was an issue with the rover's avionics in Wednesday's plan just before MAHLI was to take images of our contact sci
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 06, 2022 - On Earth, shifting tectonic plates reshuffle the planet's surface and make for a dynamic interior, so the absence of such processes on Mars led many to think of it as a dead planet, where not much h
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 05, 2022 - On the night of December 7-8, Mars will be at opposition - opposite the Sun's position in the sky. On that date, Earth is situated directly between Mars and the Sun. The planet is at its brightest,
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 02, 2022 - Curiosity drove ~25 meters back toward the Marker Band from our detour to the Gediz Vallis Ridge and has returned to the rhythmically layered bedrock we observed on Sols 3648-3649. The first t
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 - When NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of Mars nearly 50 years ago, its cameras imaged a boulder-strewn surface of elusive origin. New research led by Planetary Science Institute Se
