Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 26, 2021 - As we head into a long weekend for the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, Curiosity will take advantage of some extra time at the Zechstein drill location to conduct even more science. The team has bee
Cologne, Germany (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 - Seismic data collected in Elysium Planitia, the second largest volcanic region on Mars, suggest the presence of a shallow sedimentary layer sandwiched between lava flows beneath the planet's surface
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 24, 2021 - NASA's Curiosity rover captured a remarkable image from its most recent perch on the side of Mars' Mount Sharp. The mission team was so inspired by the beauty of the landscape, they combined two ver
Tempe AZ (SPX) Nov 23, 2021 - This year, NASA is observing the 20th anniversary of the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter, the longest-lived spacecraft at the Red Planet; and a mission that has helped locate water ice, find landing sites
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 22, 2021 - NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed its 16th flight over the weekend, the space agency announced Monday.
Paris (ESA) Nov 22, 2021 - Take away the clouds, bulk up the humans with suits and add an orange-red filter and this could be an image from a future mission to Mars. The actual site, the Corona lava tube in Lanzarote, S
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2021 - Video footage from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 13th flight on Sept. 4 provides the most detailed look yet of the rotorcraft in action. Ingenuity is curren
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2021 - With Flight 15, Ingenuity began the journey back towards Wright Brothers Field at Octavia E. Butler Landing, the site where Perseverance touched down with Ingenuity in February. This flight was
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2021 - OPTIMISM, the full-scale engineering model of Perseverance, begins a series of rigorous tests to assess the risk of potential driving hazards on the surface of the Red Planet. On a recent day
Edinburgh UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2021 - Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests. Rocks on Mars may
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2021 - The SAM and CheMin instrument teams decided that they did not require further analyses of the Zechstein drill sample. It is the turn of the arm-mounted MAHLI and APXS instruments to have their tas
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2021 - We are in the midst of the Zechstein drilling campaign. The SAM team are eagerly waiting for the results of their weekend EGA analysis on the drilled sample. Dependin
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2021 - A radiation sensor aboard the spacecraft is providing new data on the health risks humans would face on the surface. Could lava tubes, caves, or subsurface habitats offer safe refuge for future astr
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2021 - Who hates deep sand traps more than golfers? Mars rover drivers (and probably Fremen too). When your vehicle is well over 50 million kilometers away from the nearest tow company, getting your wheels
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 12, 2021 - When the operations team logged on today, we were prepared to pick up where Monday's team had left off in Curiosity's ongoing drill campaign at Zechstein. But then we received some news: even though
Paris (ESA) Nov 11, 2021 - A team of astronauts, engineers and geologists is travelling to Spain's Canary Islands, one of Europe's volcanic hot spots, to learn how to best explore the Moon and Mars during ESA's Pangaea geolog
