Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2022 - Sometimes, I think Mars rocks are just a bunch of toddlers whom we have told to tidy their play room. And the more we want something, the more resistance we get. The latest episode of 'This-rock-is-
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2022 - We were very glad to come in to today's planning to see the drive placed us in a perfect position to bring out the robotic arm to do some science! The rover will spend the first several hours of the
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
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 18, 2022 - In the coming days, NASA's Perseverance rover is expected to begin building the first sample depot on another world. This will mark a crucial milestone in the NASA-ESA (European Space Agency) Mars S
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
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 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 - 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 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
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
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
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
