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 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
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 - Sending humans to Mars has been a dream of scientists and a large part of the population ever since Nicolaus Copernicus first postulated that it was a planet, about 500 years ago. Even before that f
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 10, 2022 - Both the CheMin and SAM instruments have dined on the Avanavero drill samples and have decided their appetites are sated. CheMin has completed X-ray diffraction mineralogical analysis of the Avanave
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 07, 2022 - Tosol's plan included a little bit of everything, with more than four hours of remote science spread over three sols. However, the rover is still in the midst of the Avanavero drill campaign, so all
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 - Is sustainable human exploration of Mars possible? How will humans affect the new environment? Around 60 researchers from the University of Bremen and other institutes are investigating these questi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 07, 2022 - Perseverance has a big job to do while roving across Jezero and exploring the Delta Front, which is campaign #2 of the mission. One of the major goals of this mission (and campaign) is searching for
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 01, 2022 - Curiosity is continuing to proceed through our pre-planned checklist of activities that we've made for drill campaigns. The team is currently waiting for the downlink that contains data from CheMin'
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 30, 2022 - Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance's Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she's looking for. Ask any space explorer, and they'll have a favorite photograph or two f
Beijing (XNA) Jun 30, 2022 - Tianwen 1, China's historic Mars mission, has accomplished all its preset scientific tasks, according to the China National Space Administration. The administration said on Wednesday that the
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 29, 2022 - After a successful drilling of Avanavero, the team is ready to dig even deeper into our investigation of this new drill target. Tosol's plan includes an important part of this process: our initial a
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 29, 2022 - NASA scientists hope to solve a fundamental mystery about Mars' atmosphere, and you can help. They've organized a project called Cloudspotting on Mars that invites the public to identify Martian clo
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2022 - According to a new NASA laboratory experiment, rovers may have to dig about 6.6 feet (two meters) or more under the Martian surface to find signs of ancient life because ionizing radiation from spac
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2022 - Scientists using data from NASA's Curiosity rover measured the total organic carbon - a key component in the molecules of life - in Martian rocks for the first time. Total organic carbon is one of
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2022 - The MSL team is very happy this week, because our first drill attempt since last November was successful! This Front Hazcam image shows the drill being extracted from the new drill hole, which is su
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2022 - Scientists are about to get a new look at Mars, thanks to a multicolored 5.6-gigapixel map. Covering 86% of the Red Planet's surface, the map reveals the distribution of dozens of key minerals. By l
