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NASA’s InSight enters safe mode during regional Mars dust storm
NASA's InSight lander is stable and sending health data from Mars to Earth after going into safe mode Friday, Jan.
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Sol 3353: Raise the (Martian) Roof
On the second sol of the weekend plan, Curiosity took an unexpected break, stopping arm motion on the way to deploying MAHLI to image the wheels for their regular check up.
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Assessing Perseverance’s Seventh Sample Collection
On Wednesday, Dec. 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock.
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Perseverance set to exit Seitah area
While many reflect on the past and bid it farewell, there's a lot of exciting science to come in the next year.
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Sol 3349: Ridges, Big and Small
Another successful drive on Mars resulted in a dusty bedrock workspace with nodules and small raised ridges in front of the rover.
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FAU scientist aims to ensure microbe-free Mars samples
The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is collecting samples in search of signs of ancient microbial life, which would advance NASA's quest to explore the past habitability of Mars.
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Flight 19 – New Year, Same Ingenuity
The next flight on Mars marks the first of 2022 and the nineteenth for NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
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Sols 3347-3348: Bem Vindo a Roraima!
Tosol, Curiosity woke up in a new mapping quadrant, Roraima. The Roraima quadrant is named after the northern-most state of Brazil and Mount Roraima, which is the highest peak in the Pakaraima mountains which sits between Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana.
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Chinese Mars mission sends photos of the Red Planet
The China National Space Administration published on Saturday four pictures taken by its Tianwen 1 Mars mission, including the first full photo of the mission orbiter.
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Experiments show algae can survive in Mars-like environment
Chinese researchers have demonstrated that algae can survive in a Mars-like environment during four experiments since 2019, raising the hope that mankind might be able to turn the barren planet into an earth-like green one in the future.
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Perseverance Samples in Review: 2021
As the 2021 calendar year comes to a close, it's nice to sit back and reflect on all the progress we've made on Mars this year.
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An icy spring at the Martian South Pole
In addition to its enormous volcanoes, huge rift valley systems, and dried-up crater lakes and river valleys, the ice caps at the north and south poles of Mars have been the subject of intensive scientific investigations.
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Red velvet Mars
Like a sprinkle of powdered sugar on a rich red velvet cake, this scene from the ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captures the contrasting colours of bright white water-ice against the rusty red martian soil.
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Perseverance and the Search Amongst the Sand
Since February 18, 2021, Perseverance has been exploring the Jezero crater floor, including an exposure of rock and sand that the rover's science team…
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Holiday Prepping on Mar: Sols 3333-3343
On Mars, like Earth, we are prepping for the holidays. Today we planned an eleven sol plan which will take us to the end of December.
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NASA retires InSight Mars lander
NASA's InSight Mars lander has ended its mission after more than four years studying the red planet.