Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 11, 2021 - Every time we collect a rock sample on Mars, Perseverance performs an hours-long set of carefully choreographed operations with its robotic arm, the coring drill, and the Adaptive Caching Assembly.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2021 - We did it! Yet another successful hole has been drilled in Mars! Welcome to the family, Zechstein! Tosol, Curiosity is planning for a TON of cool science including a ChemCam vertical raster
Beijing (XNA) Nov 10, 2021 - China's Mars orbiter entered its remote-sensing orbit around Mars on Monday, starting the global remote-sensing exploration of the planet, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 09, 2021 - This weekend plan is an exciting one - we are GO for drilling! I worked as a Rover Planner today, helping to sequence our 34th drill hole on Mars on the target Zechstein. This is also our 40th s
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 8, 2021 - NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has flown for the 15th time on Mars, starting a journey back to its starting point for future missions in a new direction.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 08, 2021 - After our short bump on Tuesday, Curiosity has reached a new potential drill location. When we first arrived at the clay-sulfate transition, the science team decided on a strategy to drill every ~25
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 08, 2021 - With conjunction over and our first flight at 2,700 RPM behind us, Ingenuity is ready to begin the journey back to the Wright Brothers Field at the Octavia E. Butler landing site, before venturing b
Paris (ESA) Nov 08, 2021 - From panoramas to close-ups, from 3D maps to a wheel selfie, the Earth-bound twin of ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover is testing the wide range of photo settings that will deliver the greatest science
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 05, 2021 - The interaction of dust particles in Martian dust storms may cause electric fields that are powerful enough to have charges that induce standing electromagnetic waves known as S?humann resonances. T
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 04, 2021 - The drive over the weekend was successful, gaining us more than 6 m in elevation - not bad for a weekend hike! Looking at this terrain, it is probably not surprising to you that looking uphill into
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 - AMADEE-20: That is the name of the simulated Mars mission of the Austrian Space Forum, which was carried out in the Israeli Negev Desert. More than 25 experiments were carried out there. Two project
Perth, Australia (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 - Curtin University researchers have pinpointed the likely origin of a group of meteorites ejected from Mars, using a machine learning algorithm that analyses high-resolution planetary images. T
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 1, 2021 - NASA's InSight spacecraft is nearing the end of its life after four years on Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 28, 2021 - The successful 14th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took place shortly after 1:18 a.m. PDT Oct. 24 at Jezero Crater. As planned, the helicopter executed its first 2,700 rpm flight, provin
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 27, 2021 - Artificial intelligence, or AI, has enormous potential to change the way NASA's spacecraft study the universe. But because all machine learning algorithms require training from humans, a recent proj
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 26, 2021 - Catch Mars mania as a traveling exhibit visits more than a dozen towns across the U.S. with lifelike models of NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. While NASA's Perseverance rov
