
Mastcam-Ing All the Things: Sols 3480-3482
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.
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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.
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.
May 24, 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.
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.
May 20, 2022

The past few weeks have been exciting ones for Perseverance's science team.
May 20, 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!
May 19, 2022

Physicists led by the University of Iowa have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed.
May 19, 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.
May 18, 2022

NASA's InSight Mars lander is gradually losing power and is anticipated to end science operations later this summer.
May 18, 2022

Curiosity continues to navigate challenging terrain. The drive executed over the weekend moved us 8 m from our previous location.
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.
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.
May 18, 2022

Let's suppose you were an astronaut who just landed on the planet Mars. What would you need to survive?
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 delta.
May 17, 2022

A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has investigated a meteorite from Mars using neutron and X-ray tomography.
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.
May 16, 2022