Paris (ESA) Nov 11, 2022 - ESA's Mars Express spacecraft recently conducted tests in which it relayed data gathered by NASA's Perseverance rover back to Earth. The 19-year-old spacecraft has now relayed data for seven differe
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2022 - On Sol 579 (October 6, 2022), Perseverance collected a sedimentary sample named Mageik, the mission's 14th rock core, from the Amalik outcrop in the Enchanted Lake region at the base of the Jezero
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 10, 2022 - For the first time in its eight years orbiting Mars, NASA's MAVEN mission witnessed two different types of ultraviolet aurorae simultaneously, the result of solar storms that began on Aug. 27.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2022 - Curiosity was parked amongst beautiful, rhythmically layered bedrock in our previous workspace. The term rhythmic is used to describe fine scale, repeating layers that exhibit a uniform spacing and
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 08, 2022 - The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 07, 2022 - We are perched just below the Marker Band, a thin dark band whose origin is unclear. As Michelle noted yesterday, we found some amazing textured float rocks in our workspace but were not in a good
Toowoomba, Australia (SPX) Nov 07, 2022 - It may be known as a rocky, red planet but evidence is mounting that salty water exists at the base of polar deposits on Mars. University of Southern Queensland's Professor Graziella Caprarell
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 07, 2022 - The team is making progress identifying and implementing a fix that will allow a seal to cap off the rover's latest rock sample, which was collected at the base of Jezero's delta from an outcrop cal
Iowa City IA (SPX) Nov 04, 2022 - Early crust on Mars may be more complex than previously thought-and it may even be similar to our own planet's original crust. The Martian surface is uniformly basaltic, a product of billions
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2022 - We arrived at the spectacular workspace pictured above, but what made it spectacular - rocks - is what also made it tricky. Our left front wheel was propped up just enough on one of the lovely and i
Cologne, Germany (SPX) Nov 01, 2022 - Data from two meteorite impacts on Mars recorded by NASA's InSight spacecraft provide new insights into the structure of the Martian crust. Previously, researchers had observed many quakes whose wav
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 31, 2022 - This is a two sol weekend plan, as Saturday is a soliday. On the first sol, we characterize the workspace in front of us and then drive on the second sol to a new workspace. We are now officially on
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 28, 2022 - The next step in the unprecedented campaign to return scientifically selected samples from Mars was made on Oct. 19 with a formal agreement between NASA and its partner ESA (European Space Agency).
University Park PA (SPX) Oct 28, 2022 - A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars. The maps offer the strongest case yet that the planet once experienced sea-level rise consiste
Paris (ESA) Oct 28, 2022 - The first samples to be taken from Mars and sent to Earth will be sourced from Jezero Crater, where the Perseverance rover has been exploring the crater floor and nearby ancient delta. The location
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 28, 2022 - On 24 December 2021, NASA's InSight lander felt the ground shake. Its SEIS seismometer registered a marsquake of magnitude 4. Independently, a 150-metre diameter crater was photographed from orbit b
