Washington DC (UPI) Dec 10, 2021 - NASA's Mars helicopter may have to wait days to overcome a blocked radio signal caused by hills between it and the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater, a NASA official said.
Orlando FL (UPI) Dec 10, 2021 - Tears most likely will flow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., when the extremely successful Mars helicopter Ingenuity sends its last transmission and goes quiet on the Red Pla
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 - Lower atmospheric processes, such as convection, dust storms and gravity waves, are vital to understanding how Mars lost its water, writes Erdal Yigit in a Perspective. It's widely thought that most
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 10, 2021 - Curiosity is currently located within Maria Gordon notch, which is a rather tight canyon surrounded by high rock walls located at the transition onto the Greenheugh Pediment. Her views are current
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 09, 2021 - Ingenuity flew for the 17th time at Mars on Sunday, Dec. 5. After the helicopter executed the planned 614-foot (187-meter) traverse to the northeast, the radio communications link between Ingenuity and the Perseverance Mars rover was disrupted during the final descent phase of the flight.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 08, 2021 - Curiosity is preparing to shoot the gapand dash through the Maria Gordon notch (the cliff-lined valley seen in the image above) in the sols ahead. Already we have a spectacular view of the 12 m (3
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 7, 2021 - NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed its 35th flight over the weekend, setting a new altitude record of 46 feet in the thin Martian atmosphere.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 03, 2021 - With Flight 17, Ingenuity continues its journey back to Wright Brothers Field at the Octavia E. Butler landing site. Flight 17 is the third flight of this journey and is scheduled to take place no e
Paris (ESA) Dec 03, 2021 - By performing a series of real and 'fake' flybys, ESA's Mars Express has revealed how Mars' largest moon, Phobos, interacts with the solar wind of charged particles thrown out by the Sun - and spott
Paris (ESA) Dec 03, 2021 - The ExoMars rover used in the Earth-based Mars Terrain Simulator makes escaping from a sand trap look easy in this exercise. The rover initially has its front two wheels almost completely buri
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 02, 2021 - The engineers at JPL responsible for driving Curiosity yet again delivered a perfect drive to some boulders that the science team have been interested in investigating. The large boulders are though
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 02, 2021 - The rover rarely drives in a straight line, and our recent drive took the road less traveled to investigate a bunch of boulders shed down from a cliff face off to the side of our expected traverse
Paris (ESA) Dec 02, 2021 - This November, ESA's Mars Express spacecraft carried out a series of experimental communication tests with the Chinese (CNSA) Zhurong Mars rover. Mars Express successfully caught data sent up 'in th
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 02, 2021 - The Perseverance rover is equipped with a large suite of cameras-23 to be exact-which collectively enable a wide range of scientific investigations and engineering activities. Since the rover's touc
Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Dec 02, 2021 - NAU PhD candidate Ari Koeppel, as part of a team of scientists from Northern Arizona and Johns Hopkins Universities, recently discovered that water was once present in a unique but brief manner in a
Beijing, China (SPX) Nov 30, 2021 - Mars landing missions only succeed about half the time, a rate largely determined by the entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase, according to the researchers who designed Tianwen-1's control systems
