Washington DC (UPI) Sep 7, 2021 - NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has drilled and encapsulated the first rock sample ever taken on another planet, while the accompanying helicopter Ingenuity has completed its 13th flight.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2021 - NASA's Perseverance rover has completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2021 - Following Flight 12's scouting images of South Seitah, which were the most valuable Ingenuity has taken to date, we are taking Winston's advice for Ingenuity's 13th flight. We will again be ventur
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2021 - Data received late Sept. 1 from NASA's Perseverance rover indicate the team has achieved its goal of successfully coring a Mars rock. The initial images downlinked after the historic event show an i
New Haven CT (SPX) Sep 02, 2021 - As scientists prepare for crewed research missions to nearby planets and moons, they've identified a need for something beyond rovers and rockets. They need accurate weather forecasts. Without
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 2, 2021 - NASA won't send astronauts to Mars for at least a decade, but the agency said interest is running high in applying for a year's stint in a simulated home base on the Red Planet.
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 1, 2021 - NASA wants four people to test the limits of human isolation by placing them in a simulated Mars habitat for a year, cut off from the world except for delayed communication and possible simulated spacesuit walks.
Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2021 - China's Tianwen 1 Mars mission will be inactivated for about 50 days from mid-September due to an expected disruption of its communications with Earth caused by solar electromagnetic radiation, the
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2021 - In its search for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is once again preparing to collect the first of many rock core samples that could eventually be brought to Earth
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 26, 2021 - Ask any space explorer, and they'll have a favorite photograph or two from their mission. For Ken Farley, the project scientist for NASA's Perseverance rover, one of his current favorites is a color
Beijing (XNA) Aug 25, 2021 - China's Mars rover Zhurong had traveled more than 1,000 meters on the surface of the red planet as of Monday, the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administratio
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2021 - An interplanetary mission led by the University of California, Berkeley, to put two satellites - dubbed Blue and Gold - into orbit around Mars has been officially authorized to prepare for launc
Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 24, 2021 - Over the last two decades, scientists have found ice in many locations on Mars. Most Martian ice has been observed from orbital satellites like NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. But determining th
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 18, 2021 - Images of knobbly rocks and rounded hills are delighting scientists as NASA's Curiosity rover climbs Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8-kilometer-tall) mountain within the 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer-wid
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 17, 2021 - By combining observations from three international spacecraft at Mars, scientists were able to show that regional dust storms play a huge role in drying out the Red Planet. Dust storms heat up highe
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 17, 2021 - NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completed its 12th flight on Mars, officials said early Tuesday, as it scouts out the Martian terrain for the Perseverance land rover.
