Beijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2022 - 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 temperature of components like the battery ris
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 22, 2022 - 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. However, our workspace had some really great bed
Morgantown WV (The Conversation) Sep 21, 2022 - 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 mis
Hong Kong, China (SPX) Sep 21, 2022 - Lakes are bodies of water fed by rainfall, snowmelt, rivers and groundwater, through which, Earth is teeming with life. Lakes also contain critical geologic records of past climates. Though Mars is
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2022 - 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 impacts detected by the spacecraft's seismometer s
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 16, 2022 - 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. NASA's Persevera
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 16, 2022 - As Dr. Abigail Fraeman noted a couple weeks ago, Curiosity is navigating through terrain that is difficult to traverse. At the start of today's planning cycle, Curiosity's operations team received d
Washington (AFP) Sept 15, 2022 - NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has detected its highest concentrations yet of organic molecules, in a potential signal of ancient microbes that scientists are eager to confirm when the rock samples are eventually brought to Earth.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 15, 2022 - 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), in what may be a first for peer-reviewed scie
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2022 - 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. Curiosity has been sitting in the sam
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 - 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! Several missions have searched for frost including Opport
Nantes, France (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 - The weight and grinding movement of glaciers has carved distinctive valleys and fjords into Earth's surface. Because Mars lacks similar landscapes, researchers believed ancient ice masses on the Red
Pullman WA (SPX) Sep 07, 2022 - 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
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2022 - 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. Because the Martian atmosphere i
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 - On the red and dusty surface of Mars, nearly 100 million miles from Earth, an instrument the size of a lunchbox is proving it can reliably do the work of a small tree. The MIT-led Mars Oxygen
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 - 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
