MARS

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Sol 3353: Raise the (Martian) Roof
Jan 12, 2022 (JPL)
Before take two of wheel imaging and the drive, we took the opportunity to gather more data from the interesting bedrock and structures on this area. ChemCam wi...
Sol 3350-3352: A Rock Under the Wheel
Jan 12, 2022 (JPL)
It's a feast for our stratigraphers (those who research the succession in which rocks were deposited and deduce the geologic history of the area from this). We ...
NASA's InSight enters safe mode during regional Mars dust storm
Jan 12, 2022 (JPL)
The mission's team reestablished contact with InSight Jan. 10, finding that its power was holding steady and, while low, was unlikely to be draining the lander'...
Perseverance set to exit Seitah area
Jan 10, 2022 (JPL)
As lead Mapping Specialist, I get enjoy looking at the road ahead for the rover. We'll start be looping back around Seitah east, following our path back towards...
Assessing Perseverance's Seventh Sample Collection
Jan 10, 2022 (JPL)
This is only the 6th time in human history a sample has been cored from a rock on a planet other than Earth, so when we see something anomalous going on, we tak...
Sol 3349: Ridges, Big and Small
Jan 07, 2022 (JPL)
The science team decided to investigate the chemistry and texture of one of the small, raised ridges in the workspace ("El Fosso") with APXS and MAHLI. Is the r...
FAU scientist aims to ensure microbe-free Mars samples
Jan 07, 2022 (SPX)
Gregg Fields, Ph.D., executive director of FAU's Institute for Human Health and Disease Intervention (I-HEALTH) and a professor in the Department of Chemistry a...
Sols 3347-3348: Bem Vindo a Roraima!
Jan 05, 2022 (JPL)
The terrain in the Roraima region on Earth looks somewhat similar to the area Curiosity is in - with flat-topped hills and some steep slopes. Curiosity will be ...
Flight 19 - New Year, Same Ingenuity
Jan 05, 2022 (JPL)
This flight, which will take place no earlier than Friday, Jan. 7, takes the scout vehicle out of the South Seitah basin, across the dividing ridge, and up onto...
Chinese Mars mission sends photos of the Red Planet
Jan 03, 2022 (XNA)
The color pictures show the orbiter flying around the Red Planet in an orbit, the ice cover on Mars' north pole and a scene of a barren Martian plain. The orbit...
Experiments show algae can survive in Mars-like environment
Dec 30, 2021 (XNA)
In a seven-hour experiment which took place in September this year, algae were carried by a helium balloon to an altitude of 30,000 meters and survived for four...
Perseverance Samples in Review: 2021
Dec 29, 2021 (JPL)
One of Perseverance's mission objectives is to collect and store samples of the martian surface for eventual return back to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Ret...
An icy spring at the Martian South Pole
Dec 27, 2021 (SPX)
Mars Express, the first planetary mission implemented by the European Space Agency (ESA), has been orbiting Mars since the 25 December 2003. Along with NASA's 2...
Red velvet Mars
Dec 27, 2021 (ESA)
This delightful image was taken 5 July 2021 and soaks in the view of a 4 km-wide crater in Mars' north polar region of Vastitas Borealis, centred at 70.6 N/230....
Perseverance and the Search Amongst the Sand
Dec 27, 2021 (SPX)
One of the main exploration targets within Jezero crater is the well-preserved delta deposit, and many of the predicted landing sites for the rover were cluster...
Holiday Prepping on Mar: Sols 3333-3343
Dec 23, 2021 (JPL)
With such a long complex plan, contact science had to be short and sweet today. This current location is dotted with large nodular features, also identified in ...
NASA retires InSight Mars lander
Dec 22, 2021 (UPI)
NASA decided to declare the mission finished, with the lander entering a state referred to as "dead bus" by engineers, after InSight failed to respond to two tr...
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity notches 18th flight
Dec 20, 2021 (UPI)
The helicopter is moving back toward the rover Perseverance's original landing site as the rover and helicopter prepare to move in another direction. "The #Mars...
Cliffs and notches keeps Curiosity team busy: Sols 3330-3332
Dec 20, 2021 (JPL)
The atmospheric investigations had to take a little bit of a step back while we were doing our investigations near the cliff, so they feature very prominently i...
NASA's InSight Mars lander may have sent its last image to Earth
Dec 20, 2021 (UPI)
"My power's really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don't worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep t...
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