Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 - When NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft reached Mars more than 50 years ago at the end of 1971 and began to explore the planet from orbit, there was initially great disappointment at the control centre: vi
Paris (ESA) Jul 20, 2022 - The mission to return martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5 metre-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for an historic int
Hohenweg, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 20, 2022 - Pioneering Swiss boarding school Institut auf dem Rosenberg unveiled today - the anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's famous moon landing - the Rosenberg Space Habitat (RSH), which will s
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 20, 2022 - We have been making our way to a large boulder Ilha Nova Destino (which from the distance looks remarkably like the Hogwarts Sorting Hat from Harry Potter!) and landed about 3 metres back from the
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2022 - It's now dust season and winter on Mars, meaning there's more dust in the air and less sunlight to help recharge Ingenuity's batteries. Dust levels are expected to subside later in July, so the team
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2022 - Curiosity is back on the road, but some interesting boulders caught our attention and led to a short detour. The team was already planning to divert to the southwest to get some imaging of nearby cl
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2022 - Since we finished up with our Avanavero drill activities yesterday, we're officially back on the Martian road to the layered sulfate-bearing unit! Today we just planned a single sol's worth of act
Perth, Australia (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 - Five to ten million years ago an asteroid smashed into Mars. It created a massive crater and propelled a chunk of ancient Martian crust into space as a new meteorite, which eventually crashed into A
Paris (AFP) July 13, 2022 - The European Space Agency has officially terminated cooperation with Russia on a mission to put a rover on Mars, with Russia's space chief furiously responding by banning cosmonauts on the ISS from using a Europe-made robotic arm.
Perth, Australia (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 - New Curtin-led research has pinpointed the exact home of the oldest and most famous Martian meteorite for the first time ever, offering critical geological clues about the earliest origins of Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2022 - Perseverance has taken its first sample from the Jezero delta! Since arriving at the delta, the rover has been observing and abrading different rocks to inform whether they are good candidate
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 - Using the latest technologies currently available, it takes over 25,000 tons of rocket hardware and propellant to land 50 tons of anything on the planet Mars. So, for NASA's first crewed mission to
Paris (AFP) July 12, 2022 - Scientists announced Tuesday they had found the crater from which the oldest known Martian meteorite was originally blasted towards Earth, a discovery that could provide clues into how our own planet was formed.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2022 - The six-wheeled explorer has inspected a stretch of the Red Planet to see if it is flat enough for NASA's next Mars lander. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is conducting its science campaign, t
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2022 - The MAHLI images acquired on Sol 3528 confirm that the APXS was well placed over the Avanavero drill tailings, and the APXS data look good so we are ready to drive away from this location. But
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 11, 2022 - Perseverance is currently stopped for sampling at Skinner Ridge rock. Sampling activities constitute an important aspect of Perseverance's mission, and the rover's strategic path is developed around
