Milton Keynes UK (JPL) May 13, 2022 - We drove just over 30 metres in the last plan, reaching today's location. If you look closely at the last blog's image you can locate the block in front of us today in the distance of that image. Bu
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 13, 2022 - After a successful 47m drive with ~5 m of elevation gain by Curiosity yestersol, we arrived at more new and interesting terrain to investigate! I was on shift as Science Operations Coordinator (SOC)
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 12, 2022 - Curiosity is getting a good start to the week! The weekend plan completed successfully, leaving some great rover tracks behind us as seen in the attached picture. Today my role was RP2, which supp
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 10, 2022 - It's been a challenging week in Gale crater, but Curiosity and the rover team are ready to put those challenges behind us as we head into a busy weekend plan. I've been on shift as LTP and SOWG Chai
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 10, 2022 - NASA's InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever observed on another planet: an estimated magnitude 5 temblor that occurred on May 4, 2022, the 1,222nd Martian day, or sol, of the miss
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 08, 2022 - On Thursday, May 5, mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory received confirmation that the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter had re-established communications with the Perseverance
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 06, 2022 - A new study using data from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter may explain why Martian frost can be invisible to the naked eye and why dust avalanches appear on some slopes. Scientists were baffled l
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 05, 2022 - We have cleared the Greenheugh pediment and the mix of sandy, steep, and rough terrain that challenged our drives up and down it. However, we are finding that as we make our way up Mount Sharp alo
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 05, 2022 - One of the prime objectives of the Perseverance mission is to collect a diverse cache of rock samples for eventual return to Earth. Among the highest priority rocks to sample are those that make up
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 04, 2022 - On sol 3415 we encountered what we unofficially dubbed 'Gator Back' terrain and decided to not fight the creature on the expense of our wheels but rather to turn around and go back. For those of y
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 04, 2022 - NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed an intriguing ridgeline near the ancient river delta in Jezero Crater. The images - captured on April 23, during the tiny helicopter's 27th flight
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 03, 2022 - We have left the pediment behind and are making our way back to an alternate MSAR or Mount Sharp Ascent Route. We are at the second (of three) observation stops for this area, chosen as they off
Beijing (XNA) May 03, 2022 - The Mars rover Zhurong has traveled more than 1.9 km since it first set its wheels on the surface of the planet in May last year, according to the latest data released by the Lunar Exploration and S
Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) May 03, 2022 - The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, today released stunning images of Mars' enigmatic discrete auroras, following a series of revolutionary
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 29, 2022 - While angular, pointy rocks have damaged the rover's wheels since early in the MSL mission, sometimes the wheels damage rocks as the rover drives over them. As seen especially at the upper left side
Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 29, 2022 - Scientists have been studying the sediments within Mars' Gale crater for many years using orbital data sets, but thanks to the Curiosity rover driving across these deposits we can also obtain up-clo
