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China’s Mars rover expected to resume work in December
China's Mars rover Zhurong, currently in sleep mode, is expected to wake up automatically in December when its energy level hits over 140 watts and the…
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Sols 3599-3600: A Stay and Play Kind of Day
Coming into planning, we were ready for a standard "Touch and Go" plan, where we do some early morning science and then drive onto our next location.
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New clues about Mars’ early atmosphere suggest a wet planet capable of supporting life
New research published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters suggests that Mars was born wet, with a dense atmosphere allowing warm-to-hot oceans for millions of years.
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Number of ancient Martian lakes might be dramatically underestimated
Lakes are bodies of water fed by rainfall, snowmelt, rivers and groundwater, through which, Earth is teeming with life.
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InSight hears its first meteoroid impacts on Mars
NASA's InSight lander has detected seismic waves from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. Not only do these represent the first…
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Mars is littered with 15,694 pounds of human trash from 50 years of robotic exploration
People have been exploring the surface of Mars for over 50 years. According to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, nations have sent 18 human-made objects to Mars over 14 separate missions.
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An Unexpected Stop, the Sequel: Sols 3594-3595
As Dr. Abigail Fraeman noted a couple weeks ago, Curiosity is navigating through terrain that is difficult to traverse.
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Perseverance investigates geologically rich Mars terrain
The latest findings provide greater detail on a region of the Red Planet that has a watery past and is yielding promising samples for the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign.
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Wind drives geology on Mars these days
A new paper based on exploration by the NASA's Curiosity Mars rover-and reviewed by an astronaut while she was on the International Space Station (ISS)…
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Searching for Frost at Jezero Crater
We've all walked outside on a cold morning and seen frost on the grass, but you might be surprised to know that frost can also form on Mars!
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Sols 3592-3593: Onwards
Curiosity is back on the road! The arm (seen above while conducting science activities on sol 3583) is good to go, so the team planned a full day of activities.
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Glaciers flowed on ancient Mars, but slowly
The weight and grinding movement of glaciers has carved distinctive valleys and fjords into Earth's surface.
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Martian rock-metal composite shows potential of 3D printing on Mars
A little Martian dust appears to go a long way. A small amount of simulated crushed Martian rock mixed with a titanium alloy made a stronger, high-performance material in a 3D-printing process that could one day be used on Mars to make tools or rocket parts.
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Everything is Dust in the Wind
Well, not quite. But for scientists like me, who study atmospheric and aeolian (wind-driven) processes, wind-blown dust is extremely important to understand on Mars.
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Perseverance Rover team’s first results
Two papers recently released in the scholarly journal Science by Farley et al. and Liu et al., which describe recent major results from NASA's Mars 2020 mission provide new insight into the history of water on Mars.
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An Unexpected Stop during Sols 3580-3581
We kicked off Curiosity operations this morning with the news that our previous drive did not complete as planned.