Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2022 - Today was an exciting day of planning (and not just because of the thunderstorms here in southern California!). We planned a full drill of Avanavero, our first drill in over 6 months! The MAHLI imag
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2022 - It has been almost 8 months to the day since Curiosity powered up its drill and extracted tailings from a Gale crater rock. Today, we prepared a single-sol plan for sol 3511. Our initial intent was
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 23, 2022 - A region on Mars may have been repeatedly habitable until relatively late in Martian history, says a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Catherine Weitz. Some of the most
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2022 - Striking rock formations documented by the rover provide evidence of a drying climate in the Red Planet's ancient past. For the past year, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been traveling throug
Fredericton, Canada (JPL) Jun 22, 2022 - This weekend plan is a four sol plan to allow a no planning day on Monday, for the commemoration of Juneteenth, and we crammed a lot in. This workspace is relatively similar in appearance to the l
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 22, 2022 - The extremely salty, very cold, and almost oxygen-free environment under the permafrost of Lost Hammer Spring in Canada's High Arctic is the one that most closely resembles certain areas on Mars. So
Paris (ESA) Jun 22, 2022 - The MARSIS instrument on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, famous for its role in the discovery of signs of liquid water on the Red Planet, is receiving a major software upgrade that will allow it to s
Davis CA (SPX) Jun 19, 2022 - Anew study of an old meteorite contradicts current thinking about how rocky planets like the Earth and Mars acquire volatile elements such as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and noble gases as th
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 19, 2022 - Associate professor Vincent Chevrier at the U of A Center for Space and Planetary Sciences was awarded $100,000 to study the stability and distribution of clathrate hydrates and clathrasils on the s
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 16, 2022 - Sixteen scientists from the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Japan have been chosen to help future samples from the Red Planet achieve their full potential. NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), its
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 16, 2022 - The Sol 3496 (last Monday) plan did not execute due to an issue onboard the rover that took a few days to investigate. Today, we were back to normal operations, and we were able to accomplish everyt
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 16, 2022 - The difficulty of driving on Martian terrain proves itself once again! Our Sol 3504 drive did not complete successfully, leaving us in basically the same spot as our last plan. Thankfully, all the s
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 - The InSight mission on Mars is running out of power and most of its functions could be shut down in the months to come. Some have already been deactivated. However, the attached seismometer, SEIS, w
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 - Mars, Earth's neighbouring planet, is not particularly known for its colourful appearance. It is usually thought of as an orange-brown expanse, stretching as far as the eye - or at least the cameras
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2022 - Perseverance has a number of moving parts, including the robotic arm, drill, mast, instrument covers, high gain antenna, and mobility system. An unintended collision with the rover body or Martian t
Paris (ESA) Jun 09, 2022 - This scarred and colourful (by martian standards!) landscape shows part of Aonia Terra, an upland region in the southern highlands of Mars. The image was taken by ESA's Mars Express on 25 April 2022
