MARSDAILY - SKY NIGHTLY

Exomars 2028 and the Search for Life on Mars

Apr 10, 2024 (SPX)

Scheduled for an October to December 2028 launch at Kennedy Space Center, the mission aims to uncover past life indicators on Mars. ESA, alongside significant c...

Perseverance uncovers a watery past on Mars

Apr 04, 2024 (SPX)

Ken Farley, the project scientist for Perseverance at Caltech, expressed that the newly sampled rock embodies the exploratory goals set for the Jezero Crater mi...

Looking back at Hinman Col: Sols 4146-4147

Apr 04, 2024 (JPL)

The bedrock here is predominantly a pale coloured rock, massive (non-lineated) in appearance, but there are rare fragments of darker layers in places, which loo...

Continuing up the Channel: Sols 4139-4140

Apr 02, 2024 (JPL)

One thing that I'm definitely able to do though is appreciate the stunning photos that Curiosity has been taking as we drive up along the side of the upper Gedi...

An Intriguing Mess: Sols 4141-4143

Apr 02, 2024 (JPL)

Today's 3-sol plan is focused on contact science on the bedrock in our workspace, remote sensing to understand our surroundings, and a short bump to prepare for...

Perseverance Pays off When Studying the Martian Atmosphere

Apr 01, 2024 (SPX)

Firstly, the sensors that make up the primary atmospheric instrument (the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer, MEDA) make meteorological and related observatio...

Mars Express achieves 25,000 orbits

Mar 28, 2024 (SPX)

Since its arrival at Mars in late 2003, Mars Express has revolutionized our understanding of the planet. It has meticulously mapped the Martian atmosphere, unra...

Fascinated by Fascination Turret: Sols 4137-4138

Mar 28, 2024 (JPL)

However this plan (and many of the others around now) will probably be remembered for its imaging of the uGVR (upper Gediz Vallis ridge) rather than chemistry! ...

European Scientists Unveil Detailed Mars Map Ahead of Rosalind Franklin Rover Mission

Mar 27, 2024 (SPX)

Oxia Planum, chosen for its geological richness and historical significance, lies near Mars' equator and boasts sedimentary deposits dating back nearly four bil...

Sun Blob Blues Sols 4134-4135

Mar 26, 2024 (JPL)

The sun blob includes the sun's entire daily path through the sky plus 13 degrees, in the event ChemCam gets stuck pointed somewhere and Earth is unable to resp...

Bipartisan Congressional call to ensure Mars Sample Return a success

Mar 26, 2024 (SPX)

The Mars Sample Return Program, spearheaded by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), represents a major endeavor in aerospace engineering and space exploration. ...

Curiosity's Encore Journey Along Upper Gediz Vallis Ridge

Mar 21, 2024 (JPL)

The rover drove up to the uGVR last summer and investigated several rocks; now with the beautiful "Fascination Turret" section of the uGVR in sight, the team is...

A Return to Your Regularly Scheduled Touch-And-Go: Sols 4130-4131

Mar 19, 2024 (JPL)

After leaving Mineral King behind we were greeted by a new workspace for the first time in almost 30 sols. For the "touch" part of the touch-and-go, APXS and MA...

NASA and JAXA advance Martian Moons study with instrument handoff

Mar 17, 2024 (SPX)

The research initiative seeks to determine whether these moons are the remnants of a significant collision between Mars and another large body or if they were a...

Surprising insights about debris flows on Mars

Mar 15, 2024 (SPX)

"The Martian atmosphere is 95% CO2", Lonneke Roelofs explains. "In winter, air temperatures drop below -120 degrees Celsius, which is cold enough for CO2 in the...

It's go for drilling at Mineral King: Sols 4125-4126:

Mar 15, 2024 (JPL)

For those not following along every day, here's a quick recap of how we got to drill target #3 on this block: We drilled the original "Mineral King" target on s...

Protect Earth instead of colonising Mars, Obama says

Mar 14, 2024 (AFP)

Speaking at a renewable energy conference in the French capital Paris, the former US president mentioned Silicon Valley "tycoons, many of whom are building spac...

Eroded Martian Volcano with Hidden Ice Suggests Active Geological Past

Mar 14, 2024 (SPX)

Positioned at the intersection of the Noctis Labyrinthus and the Valles Marineris, the Noctis volcano stands at +9022 meters in elevation, covering an area of 4...

Life on Mars, together

Mar 14, 2024 (SPX)

The mission evolved from Hoying's NASA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts - Academic Linkage (NASA RASC-AL) challenge submission, Project ALIEN, during he...

NASA's Mars Mission: Rovers Traverse Tough Terrain Amid Budget Battles

Mar 13, 2024 (SPX)

But because of the literal groundwork the rovers are performing, scientists are finally investigating, in-depth and in unprecedented detail, the planet's eviden...