MARSDAILY - SKY NIGHTLY

The race is on for Ingenuity and Perseverance to stay the distance

Mar 27, 2023 (JPL)

With this important work out of the way, the rover's science team eagerly turned its attention to the prospect of new and exciting discoveries in the unexplored...

Sols 3780-3782: Perfect 10

Mar 24, 2023 (JPL)

I am pleased to report to you today how wrong I was, as she is months away from graduating from high school and Curiosity's weekend plan uses all ten of our sci...

Waves and a Rock: Sols 3778-3779

Mar 21, 2023 (JPL)

We've seen this before, sure, but there was a certain textural je ne sais quoi of this rock for me. Not only the layers, but the ruffled edges. I couldn't put m...

Spring Past the Marker Band: Sols 3776-3777

Mar 21, 2023 (JPL)

Through a particularly cold and wet southern-California winter, the team planned: 29 drives, 5 drill attempts, 4 Mastcam 360 degree mosaics, and 61 plans sent t...

Geologists Love a Good Contact: Sols 3773-3775

Mar 21, 2023 (JPL)

The lower section of bedrock consists of very thin, horizontal layers, as though you were looking at the edge of a thick stack of construction paper. Above, the...

Toodle-oo Tapo Caparo: Sols 3771-3772

Mar 17, 2023 (JPL)

Today's plan is therefore a Touch and Go plan, doing the very last contact science on our wish list and then moving on. APXS will analyse a float rock ("Tucupit...

Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumb trick inspires robotic exploration of caves on Mars and beyond

Mar 17, 2023 (SPX)

"Lava tubes and caves would make perfect habitats for astronauts because you don't have to build a structure; you are shielded from harmful cosmic radiation, so...

Remains of a modern glacier found near Martian equator

Mar 16, 2023 (SPX)

The surface feature identified as a "relict glacier" is one of many light-toned deposits (LTDs) found in the region. Typically, LTDs consist mainly of light-col...

Building on Luna and Mars with StarCrete the double stength concrete

Mar 16, 2023 (SPX)

In an article published in the journal Open Engineering[EB1] , the research team demonstrated that ordinary potato starch can act as a binder when mixed with si...

Engineers keep an eye on fuel supply of NASA's oldest Mars orbiter

Mar 16, 2023 (JPL)

Their work has helped Odyssey build a scientific legacy: The spacecraft has mapped minerals across the Martian surface, allowing scientists to better understand...

ExoMars rover testing moves ahead and deep down

Mar 15, 2023 (ESA)

A year has passed since the launch of the rover mission was put on hold and then cancelled, but the work has not stopped for the ExoMars teams in Europe. Today ...

ExoMars: Back on track for the Red Planet

Mar 14, 2023 (ESA)

In this programme, the ESA Web TV crew travel back to Turin, Italy to talk to the teams and watch as new tests are being conducted with the rover's Earth twin A...

Crossing Off Our Liens at Tapo Caparo: Sols 3769-3770

Mar 14, 2023 (JPL)

Our weekend plan ran successfully though we had a known issue which caused several of our remote sensing activities planned for the weekend to not execute. Toda...

Taking turns with Tapo Caparo: Sols 3766-37368

Mar 13, 2023 (JPL)

So, in this plan, it is the turn of MAHLI and APXS to investigate the powdered sample surrounding the Tapo Caparo drill hole. MAHLI will document the close-up t...

Don't Dream and Drive: Sols 3764-3765

Mar 09, 2023 (JPL)

And now my brain wonders if there ever was snow falling, dancing, quietly, covering it all in white, a dusting first, then, even more until it's a white dream w...

Layering history shows how water and carbon dioxide have moved across Mars

Mar 08, 2023 (SPX)

"No deposit yet analyzed provides a global water cycle record that can be tied to a specific orbital history. Here, I fill this gap by analyzing H2O ice layer f...

NASA's Curiosity Views First 'Sun Rays' on Mars

Mar 07, 2023 (JPL)

Curiosity captured the scene during the rover's newest twilight cloud survey, which builds on its 2021 observations of noctilucent, or night-shining, clouds. Wh...

Solid-gas carbonate formation during dust events on Mars

Mar 06, 2023 (SPX)

Carbonates are general products of aqueous processes on Earth. For Mars, carbonate minerals have been considered a sink for an early dense CO2 atmosphere. Orbit...

SAM Wants More Sample: Sol 3762

Mar 06, 2023 (JPL)

We started planning today at 10am PST due to the timing of our orbital passes above Gale crater, which can sometimes mean a pretty long day for the tactical pla...

Sols 3759-3761: More Analyses of the Tapo Caparo Drill Sample

Mar 03, 2023 (JPL)

The focus of the 3-sol weekend plan is to drop off some sample to SAM, and then perform an Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA) - which involves heating up the sample to ...