MARS - SKY NIGHTLY

Sensors collect crucial data on Mars landings with arrival of Perseverance

Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)

NASA's Perseverance rover successfully landed Feb. 18, 2021, beginning its robotic exploration of the Red Planet. MEDLI2 was one of the crucial technologies on ...

Mars' thin atmosphere means quieter sounds, new data shows

Apr 01, 2021 (UPI)

The Red Planet's thin, cold atmosphere, made of mostly carbon dioxide, causes sound to move slower and carry for shorter distances compared to those on Earth. A...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover takes selfie with Mont Mercou

Mar 31, 2021 (JPL)

Curiosity's drill powderized the sample before trickling it into instruments inside the rover so the science team could get a better understanding of the rock's...

Researchers discover new type of ancient crater lake on Mars

Mar 31, 2021 (SPX)

In a study published in Planetary Science Journal, a research team led by Brown Ph.D. student Ben Boatwright describes an as-yet unnamed crater with some puzzli...

Wright brothers' wing fragment to take flight again on Mars

Mar 26, 2021 (UPI)

Carillon Historical Park, the Ohio home of the Wright Brio home of the Wright Brothers National Museum, said NASA officials got in contact in 2019 about finding...

NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter prepares for first flight

Mar 24, 2021 (JPL)

Ingenuity remains attached to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover, which touched down on Mars Feb. 18. On March 21, the rover deployed the guitar case-shaped...

NASA's Mars helicopter may fly as early as April 8

Mar 23, 2021 (UPI)

But first, the helicopter must detach from the bottom of the rover Perseverance in Jezero Crater, where the robotic explorer landed Feb. 18, mission controllers...

Mars helicopter Ingenuity could usher in new era of exploration

Mar 22, 2021 (UPI)

The Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, will be dropped from the Perseverance rover soon, but NASA hasn't determined the exact date. The rover ejected a shield that cov...

Mars helicopter Ingenuity completes 22nd flight

Mar 22, 2021 (UPI)

"The trip lasted 101.4 seconds and Ingenuity got up to 33 feet in the air," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a tweet Monday. "The team is planning anoth...

Swiss kids suit up for 'Mission to Mars'

Mar 21, 2021 (AFP)

"Going to Mars is really my dream," the eight-year-old said, jumping excitedly from foot to foot. While the world has been riveted by the escapades of NASA's Pe...

Trinity researchers tackle the spiders from Mars

Mar 19, 2021 (SPX)

Spiders, more formally referred to as araneiforms, are strange-looking negative topography radial systems of dendritic troughs; patterns that resemble branches ...

For some scientists, Mars 2020 is a mission of perseverance

Mar 19, 2021 (SPX)

Shuster is one of 15 members of the team focused on sample return, which means that they - or their graduate student successors - won't get their hands on actua...

A Pocket Guide to Mars

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

The 84-page atlas is currently available in English, Hungarian and Czech, and will be available in a digital format later this year. The atlas, which has been d...

Perseverance captures the sounds of driving on Mars

Mar 18, 2021 (JPL)

"A lot of people, when they see the images, don't appreciate that the wheels are metal," said Vandi Verma, a senior engineer and rover driver at NASA's Jet Prop...

Astronauts in crewed missions to Mars could misread vital emotional cues

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

"Astronauts on long space missions, very much like our research participants, will spend extended durations in microgravity, confined to a small space with few ...

Is there life on mars today and where

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

As the Perseverance rover embarks on a journey to seek signs of ancient life in the 3.7 billion years old Jezero crater, Cabrol theorizes that not only life cou...

New study challenges long-held theory of fate of Martian Water

Mar 17, 2021 (JPL)

Early Mars was thought to have enough water to have covered the whole planet in an ocean roughly 100 to 1,500 meters (330 to 4,920 feet) deep - a volume roughly...

Three bacterial strains discovered on space station may help grow plants on Mars

Mar 16, 2021 (SPX)

Publishing their findings to Frontiers in Microbiology, researchers working with NASA described the discovery and isolation of 4 strains of bacteria belonging t...

Perseverance SuperCam science instrument delivers first results

Mar 12, 2021 (JPL)

"It is amazing to see SuperCam working so well on Mars," said Roger Wiens, the principal investigator for Perseverance's SuperCam instrument from Los Alamos Nat...

Hope Probe captures new images of Mars with the Emirates Ultraviolet Spectrometer

Mar 11, 2021 (SPX)

"We are very excited indeed to be moving into our science orbit and starting the flow of planetary data we aim to gather over the coming Martian year," said EMM...