Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2022 - Perseverance is adding a pop of color to Mars' regular repertoire: purple. The color palette of Mars' surface is one of muted hues. Burnt orange tones reflect the iron-bearing minerals that have rus
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2022 - Curiosity is investigating the different surface expressions of the Greenheugh pediment, and the weekend drive put the rover right next to some gator-back terrain - some evenly spaced ridges with
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 19, 2022 - The rover's self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is tryin
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 18, 2022 - Our Monday drive was successful, and we are now fully surrounded by the rocks that cap the Greenheugh pediment. From here we can see hundreds of ventifacts - a term that describes rocks which have b
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 - Right now, some 182 million miles separate the red clay of Alabama from the dusty red planet Mars. But groundbreaking flight hardware developed at NASA's Marshall S
Paris (AFP) March 17, 2022 - A Russian-European mission to land a rover on Mars has been suspended due to the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, the European Space Agency announced Thursday, as Moscow said it regretted the bitter decision.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022 - It takes a team to plan Perseverance's daily activities, including people in many different roles. One of these roles is called the tactical documentarian, or T-DOC. The tactical documentarian takes
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022 - Over the weekend, we completed the planned drive with a relatively easy (by Greenheugh Pediment standards) traverse in the pediment. With lots of bedrock in the workspace, we quickly identified a
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022 - NASA has extended flight operations of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter through September. In the months ahead, history's first aircraft to operate from the surface of another world will support the Pe
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 15, 2022 - Due to an issue with the Sol 3410 and 3411 plans, parts of the Sol 3410 plan didn't execute and the planned drive did not occur. But the Sol 3409 contact science activities completed successfully, r
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 11, 2022 - After significant churn in Monday's planning, today turned out to be a single sol's worth of untargeted science. That left GEO with only a ChemCam AEGIS activity, where ChemCam automatically identif
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 10, 2022 - We are continuing to slowly move through this very challenging terrain - over the weekend we made it about 4 meters before the drive stopped when the rover sensed more difficulty. The attached image
Beijing (XNA) Mar 08, 2022 - Chinese scientists and engineers will need to solve a host of technological challenges to accomplish an ambitious sample-return mission to Mars, said Wu Weiren, a key figure in the country's deep-sp
Paris (ESA) Mar 07, 2022 - The dusty faces of the Moon and Mars conceal unseen hazards for future explorers. Areas of highly oxidising material could be sufficiently reactive that they would produce chemical burns on astronau
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2022 - The delta is calling and we must go! With one Earth year in its rearview mirror, the Perseverance rover has been racking up the odometry en route to the site of it's next science campaign. It's been
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2022 - The terrain continues to challenge us as we make our way up onto the Greenheugh pediment. Monday's drive ended sooner than expected when the rover sensed the road was rockier than anticipated, so it
