MARS

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Sliding Into the Weekend Like - Sols 3466-3468
May 10, 2022 (JPL)
Today was a "late slide sol" because the downlinked data that we needed for planning didn't arrive on Earth until around 9:30am PDT this morning. Despite these ...
NASA's InSight Records Monster Quake on Mars
May 10, 2022 (JPL)
InSight was sent to Mars with a highly sensitive seismometer, provided by France's Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), to study the deep interior of the ...
NASA's Ingenuity in contact with Perseverance after communications dropout
May 08, 2022 (JPL)
Ingenuity became the first powered aircraft to operate on another world on April 19, 2021. Designed to perform up to five experimental test flights over a span ...
Solving the mystery of frost hiding on Mars
May 06, 2022 (JPL)
Scientists were baffled last year when studying images of the Martian surface taken at dawn by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. When they looked at the surface usin...
All the science in half the time: Sols 3464-3465
May 05, 2022 (JPL)
Yesterday's drive made it just about all the way to its endpoint, but Curiosity encountered higher than expected tilts as she attempted to turn toward our desir...
To sample or not to sample
May 05, 2022 (JPL)
This delta was one of the key attributes that made this landing site so appealing for the search for ancient Martian life. Close examination of deltaic rocks is...
NASA's Mars Helicopter scouts ridgeline for Perseverance science team
May 04, 2022 (JPL)
"Ingenuity not only provides imagery from an aerial perspective, but allows our team to be two places at once on Mars," said Ken Farley of Caltech, Perseverance...
Racks in the sand from about a hundred sols ago Sol 3463
May 04, 2022 (JPL)
The fact that we turned around, something that very, very rarely happened in the rover's 3463 sol history, is now very important for a science question: how muc...
China's Zhurong travels over 1.9 km on Mars
May 03, 2022 (XNA)
As of Sunday, Zhurong had been operating on the surface of Mars for 342 Martian days at a distance of 240 million km from Earth. A Martian day is approximately ...
Farewell to the Torridon Quad - Sols 3459-3461
May 03, 2022 (JPL)
In an ideal world, we geologists would just climb up the side of a given butte to thoroughly investigate the layer but sadly, we are not going to be able to wal...
Emirates Mars mission discovers new mysterious aurora
May 03, 2022 (SPX)
The observations include a never-before seen phenomenon, dubbed the 'sinuous discrete aurora' by the EMM team, a huge worm-like aurora that extends halfway arou...
Tantalising tectonics
Apr 29, 2022 (ESA)
At first glance, these features look as if someone has raked their fingernails across the surface of the Red Planet, gouging out lengthy trenches as they did so...
Enigmatic Rock Layer in Mars' Gale Crater Awaits Measurements by the Curiosity Rover
Apr 29, 2022 (SPX)
A new paper led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Catherine Weitz takes a new look at an enigmatic feature seen in orbital data of Mount Sharp, a ...
Revenge of the Wheels Sol 3458
Apr 29, 2022 (JPL)
Unfortunately, that drive did not complete as planned, but the tactical team took advantage of the situation by targeting observations of the freshly-exposed ro...
Campaign #2: The Delta Front
Apr 28, 2022 (JPL)
During the Crater Floor Campaign, Perseverance spent over 400 sols roving across the floor of Jezero crater, starting at the Octavia E. Butler landing site, dri...
Mars Helicopter spots landing rig and chute from Perseverance
Apr 28, 2022 (JPL)
"NASA extended Ingenuity flight operations to perform pioneering flights such as this," said Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity's team lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labo...
Enigmatic rocks on Mars show evidence of a violent origin
Apr 27, 2022 (SPX)
If the team is correct, this may lead to a better understanding of olivine-rich bedrock in other places on Mars and may also indicate a style of volcanism more ...
Back Through the Buttes! Sols 3456-3457
Apr 27, 2022 (JPL)
Although we have imaged Blackcraig and Maringma previously, these new images will add to the dataset, allowing investigation of the structures from all angles. ...
Carbon dioxide glaciers are moving at the Martian south pole
Apr 27, 2022 (SPX)
"The CO2 deposits that were first identified in 2011 turn out to be flowing today, just like glaciers on Earth," said Smith, lead author of "Carbon Dioxide Ice ...
Solar beats nuclear at many potential settlement sites on Mars
Apr 27, 2022 (SPX)
Most scientists and engineers who've thought about the logistics of living on the surface of the Red Planet have assumed that nuclear power is the best alternat...
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