Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 04, 2022 - Perseverance is in a drive campaign going faster than any previous rover. How fast, you may ask? Its actual speed is just under a tenth of a mile per hour, but it's faster than its predecessors. It
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 - Mars has a very thin atmosphere, which at the surface has a density approximately one percent that of Earth's. Until recently, it was unclear whether there is anything to hear in the barren landscap
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 - Volcanic activity beneath the surface of Mars could be responsible for triggering repetitive marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, in a specific region of the Red Planet, researchers from Th
Paris (AFP) April 1, 2022 - The first audio recordings on Mars reveal a quiet planet with occasional gusts of wind where two different speeds of sound would have a strange delayed effect on hearing, scientists said Friday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 01, 2022 - The rover engineers better understand the minor issue that occurred after our weekend activities. While we're still in the same location, they can fix the issue in this plan. Our arm activities in t
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 31, 2022 - These images were created using data acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), which was developed at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and is
Paris (ESA) Mar 31, 2022 - New views from ESA's Mars Express reveal fascinating ice-related features in Mars' Utopia region - home to the largest known impact basin not only on the Red Planet, but in the Solar System. U
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 - Newly discovered deposits of layered ice in craters scattered around Mars' southern hemisphere provide insights into how the planet's orientation controlled the planet's climate over the past 4 mill
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 30, 2022 - Unfortunately, our weekend drive stalled, so this morning we found ourselves still at Friday's workspace. Fortunately, it was an understood issue... and this was a good place to spend some extra tim
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 29, 2022 - Perseverance has spent a little over one Earth year in Jezero crater. In the last week, the team reached a very special milestone as we officially completed our first science campaign focused on the
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 - The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded SENER Aeroespacial the AERIAL project to design an unmanned aerial vehicle or drone capable of flying in the low density, pressure and temperature of the Mart
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 - I learned a new word today: vug. Vugs are small cavities or pits on a rock surface and the rock in our workspace today was noticeably vuggy. Particularly, the triangular rock face in the bottom ce
Paris (ESA) Mar 29, 2022 - The ESA-led Rosalind Franklin rover has a unique potential to search for evidence of past life on Mars thanks to its drill and laboratory. It will be the first rover to drill 2 m below the surface,
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 25, 2022 - No, Silly Place hasn't become a new place name, but I totally agree with Ryan, who was yesterday's blogger, that this is not our usual terrain. Would I want to go for a hike there, if I could? Sure,
Paris (ESA) Mar 25, 2022 - To survive on Mars will mean maximising use of all available resources. A team from Spanish technological centre Tekniker is working on a system that uses sunlight to produce fuel from astronaut was
Beijing (XNA) Mar 25, 2022 - China's Tianwen-1 orbiter has beamed back high-resolution images of Mars, showing dust storms on the surface of the planet. Released by the China National Space Administration on Thursday, the
