Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 08, 2022 - As the season has turned to winter in Jezero Crater, conditions have become increasingly challenging for Ingenuity, which was designed for a short flight-test campaign during the much warmer Martian
Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jun 07, 2022 - An international research team including the University of Gottingen has investigated the chances of survival of kombucha cultures under Mars-like conditions. Kombucha is known as a drink, sometimes
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2022 - Our drive was successful, and we ended with some lovely flat bedrock with some gorgeous veining running through it. As APXS payload uplink lead today, I saw several targets that the APXS team would
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2022 - We're heading into a packed weekend, after a successful drive putting us in a great location with some really beautiful views. Everywhere you look in the Navcam mosaic (above) there's something inte
Perth, Australia (SPX) Jun 06, 2022 - Recently, 47 new 'marsquakes' (that is, quakes on Mars) have been detected by Professor Hrvoje Tkalcic from the Australian National University and Professor Weijia Sun from the Chinese Academy of Sc
Mamoa HI (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 - How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don't- it chooses you. For the past 4 months, Perseverance has had an unexpected traveling companion. Back on sol 341- that's over 100 sols ago, in ea
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 02, 2022 - NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission returned to normal science and relay operations on May 28, 2022, after recovering from an extended safe mode event. The spacecraft en
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 02, 2022 - During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust activity ever witnessed by a mission sent to the Red Planet's surface. Not onl
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 01, 2022 - Perseverance has continued into Hawksbill Gap, making remote sensing observations of small portions of outcropping rock layers in search of a good place to collect a sample. Since Perseverance is in
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 01, 2022 - Today in tactical planning I was staffed as Surface Properties Scientist, which means I get to put my geology field experience hat on and work with the rover drivers to assess the terrain we'll cros
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 29, 2022 - Our intrepid rover engineers again successfully navigated Curiosity a little higher up Mount Sharp (~5 m) and ~40 m on the ground, away from our previous location. The terrain beneath the rover incl
Chicago IL (SPX) May 29, 2022 - Mars once ran red with rivers. The telltale tracks of past rivers, streams and lakes are visible today all over the planet. But about three billion years ago, they all dried up - and no one knows wh
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 27, 2022 - As detailed in our last blog post, for the first time in our yearlong extended mission we had a loss of communications with Ingenuity from the downlink of May 3 (Sol 427) and May 4 (Sol 428). After
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 27, 2022 - The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's black-and-white navigation camera has provided dramatic video of its record-breaking 25th flight, which took place on April 18. Covering a distance of 2,310 feet (704
Denver CO (SPX) May 26, 2022 - Since NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars, its two microphones have recorded hours of audio that provide valuable information about the Martian atmosphere. Baptiste Chide, of Los Alamos N
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2022 - The Sol 3483 drive completed as planned, positioning the rover near several outcrops of knobby material and more normal looking bedrock. The tactical uplink team discussed various options and deci
