Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2022 - The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week's blog. Our first success: The upper two pebbles were ejected from the bit carousel during a test. This
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 - Almost one year into the Mars rover mission, accomplishing its goal is on the horizon for Purdue University's Briony Horgan and the Perseverance team. Feb. 18 will mark one year since the rove
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 21, 2022 - After a few sols of challenges that prevented us from getting close-up MAHLI imaging of this dark outcrop in front of us, today we were finally able to plan the contact science that we were hoping f
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 20, 2022 - The atmosphere of Mars is much less dense than Earth's; however, the Mars climate shares many similarities to Earth: seasons, changing winds, ice clouds, and dust storms, among others. Predicting we
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 - Our initial plan was to conduct a MAHLI dog's eye imaging sequence on the beautiful Panari outcrop that we are parked before. During a dog's eye sequence, the rover's arm walks the MAHLI cam
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 19, 2022 - We continue to document rocks similar to what we saw at The Prow, a dark appearing rock outcrop with amazing sedimentary structures and details. To do this, we need to get as close as possible to
Paris (ESA) Jan 18, 2022 - The first simulation of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover driving off its landing platform closed out an incredible year of preparations as the mission now marches with confidence towards a Septem
University Park PA (SPX) Jan 18, 2022 - NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and since then has roamed Gale Crater taking samples and sending the results back home for researchers to interpret. Analysis of carbon isotope
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 18, 2022 - After analyzing powdered rock samples collected from the surface of Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover, scientists have announced that several of the samples are rich in a type of carbon that on Earth i
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2022 - The bump planned on Sol 3354 to move the rover closer to The Prow outcrop was successful, placing the front wheels very close to the base of the outcrop. From this new position, the arm can reac
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2022 - NASA's Mars 2020 mission team has been working methodically and thoroughly, making good progress on understanding the best path forward to remove the uninvited pebbles from Perseverance's bit carous
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 - Organic molecules found in a meteorite that hurtled to Earth from Mars were synthesized during interactions between water and rocks that occurred on the Red Planet about 4 billion years ago, accordi
Paris (ESA) Jan 14, 2022 - There's more to this image of Mars than first meets the eye: nestled in the detail of the cliff face that cuts through this scene are signs of geology in motion. Zooming in reveals several boulders
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 13, 2022 - Today Curiosity is doing a little bit of everything: some contact science, some targeted science, and a little driving. When we started planning this morning, we had a beautiful view of the small le
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 - Megaripples, intermediate-scale bedforms caused by the action of the wind, have been studied extensively and thought to be largely inactive relics of past climates, save for a few exceptions. A new
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2022 - NASA's InSight lander is stable and sending health data from Mars to Earth after going into safe mode Friday, Jan. 7, following a large, regional dust storm that reduced the sunlight reaching its so
