Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 20, 2022 - After journeying this summer through a narrow, sand-lined pass, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in the sulfate-bearing unit, a long-sought region of Mount Sharp enriched with salty mi
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 19, 2022 - If there ever was life on Mars - and that's a huge if - conditions during the planet's infancy most likely would have supported it, according to a study led by University of Arizona researchers. D
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2022 - Curiosity is focused on wrapping up the drill campaign at the Canaima site before hitting the road again. Curiosity started out with an unexpected 10% surplus in energy known as a power gift. This
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 17, 2022 - You stand in Jezero crater, Mars, at a minute to midnight. By the light of the stars and Mars's two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, you can just make out the shape of the looming delta. Nothing moves
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 13, 2022 - This morning's planning kicked off with great news! Our Sol 3620 SAM data of the Canaima drill sample was interesting enough to proceed with planning a Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) exp
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2022 - NASA's InSight mission, which is expected to end in the near future, saw a recent drop in power generated by its solar panels as a continent-size dust storm swirls over Mars' southern hemisphere. Fi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2022 - The Curiosity team continues with our Canaima drill campaign. [Today's] 2-sol plan will provide our first look at the minerals present within this sample. This is complementary but different than
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 - CU Boulder geologist Lisa Mayhew is among the scientists working to recreate the history of an ancient landscape that wouldn't look out of place in Utah-only this terrain sits on Mars millions of mi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 05, 2022 - Over the weekend, Curiosity took compositional measurements of the Canaima bedrock target in order to determine if the target merits collecting drilled sample. Concurrently, the engineering team t
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 - India has lost contact with its Mars orbiter, eight years after the low-cost probe made it the first Asian nation with a spacecraft circling the red planet, its space agency said.
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 03, 2022 - NASA said Friday that it is looking into debris that was seen on the foot of the Ingenuity helicopter's foot during its 33rd space flight on Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2022 - Last week, Perseverance attempted an abrasion on the Chiniak target at Enchanted Lake. Scientists and engineers worked together to plan this activity on an intriguing target of potentially fine-grai
Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 - A new radar image obtained by China's Mars rover Zhurong provides insights into the surface structure of the Utopia Planitia basin. The findings - which reveal multiple sub-layers suggestive of sedi
Beijing (XNA) Sep 27, 2022 - What does the subsurface of Mars' northern lowlands have in common with a French mille crepe cake? They both consist of a number of layers, according to the latest findings by China's Zhurong Mars r
Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 - Cornell astronomers believe bright reflections beneath the surface of Mars' South Pole are not necessarily evidence of liquid water, but instead geological layers. On Earth, reflections that
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 27, 2022 - Once upon a time - early 2013 - there was a small corner room in the Flight Projects building at JPL where the walls and windows were coated in pages and pages of paper. These pages contained the fa
