Pasadena CA (JPL) May 24, 2022 - NASA's InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The lander is covered with far more dust than it was in its first selfie, taken
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 24, 2022 - Coming into planning on Friday, we were greeted with a beautiful vista, with well preserved layering and amazing outcrops, and a reminder of just how stunning the planet Mars is. Mastcam takes a 360
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 20, 2022 - On February 22, 2022, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft went into safe mode when the spacecraft's Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) began exhibiting anomalous behavior. The spacecraft is currently out of safe
Beijing (XNA) May 20, 2022 - Mars rover Zhurong has been switched to dormant mode while waiting out a dust storm on the surface of the planet, the China National Space Administration said on Friday. The latest images take
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 20, 2022 - The past few weeks have been exciting ones for Perseverance's science team. At the Enchanted Lake site, we took our first look at what appear to be some of the bottommost sedimentary layers that m
Iowa City IA (SPX) May 19, 2022 - Physicists led by the University of Iowa have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed. In a new study, the physicists studied discrete aurora, a light-in-the-sky display that occurs mostly du
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 19, 2022 - Despite the incredibly rough terrain surrounding Mirador butte, our nearly 10-year-old rover successfully drove a net distance forward ~10 meters and ~2 meters in elevation! To get a sense of what o
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 18, 2022 - NASA's InSight Mars lander is gradually losing power and is anticipated to end science operations later this summer. By December, InSight's team expects the lander to have become inoperative, conclu
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 18, 2022 - Curiosity continues to navigate challenging terrain. The drive executed over the weekend moved us 8 m from our previous location. Prior to the weekend drive, we completed contact science with APXS a
Columbia MD (SPX) May 18, 2022 - A team of scientists, including Dr. German Martinez from the Universities Space Research Association at LPI, just published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This study
Washington (AFP) May 18, 2022 - After some four years probing Mars' interior, NASA's InSight lander will likely retire this summer as accumulated dust on its solar panels saps its power.
Houston TX (SPX) May 18, 2022 - A seasonal imbalance in the amount of solar energy absorbed and released by the planet Mars is a likely cause of the dust storms that have long intrigued observers, a team of researchers reports.
Gainesville FL (SPX) May 17, 2022 - Let's suppose you were an astronaut who just landed on the planet Mars. What would you need to survive? For starters, here's a short list: Water, food, shelter - and oxygen. Oxygen is in
West Lafayette IN (JPL) May 17, 2022 - Perseverance was on the move this past week after finishing up remote science activities at Enchanted Lake, an exposure of finely layered rocks that may represent some of the lowest deposits of the
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) May 16, 2022 - A study led by a Monash University geologist has provided fresh evidence for when high rates of erosion occurred throughout the history of Mars. The findings, published in Geology date when cl
Lund, Sweden (SPX) May 16, 2022 - A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has investigated a meteorite from Mars using neutron and X-ray tomography. The technology, which will probably be used when NASA examines samples fro
