MARSDAILY - SKY NIGHTLY

NASA launches Mars Sample Receiving Project Office at Johnson

Jan 25, 2023 (SPX)

The office will reside within Johnson's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science division, NASA's organization with expertise in processing and curating ...

Sol 3721: Wrapping up at the Encanto Drill Site

Jan 25, 2023 (JPL)

Although the Science Team is disappointed to leave this Marker Band location without a sample, Curiosity will use MAHLI, APXS, and ChemCam LIBS to analyze the c...

Ingenuity's 40th flight on Mars tracks a rocky road

Jan 23, 2023 (SPX)

On January 19, 2023 (Sol 681 of the Perseverance rover mission), Ingenuity completed its 40th flight, traveling a horizontal distance of 561 feet (171 meters) a...

Sols 3718-3720: Go For Drilling at Encanto

Jan 23, 2023 (JPL)

Today's 3-sol plan includes the full drill on the first sol, followed by portion characterization on the second sol, and some remote sensing activities. The tea...

ALUULA Composites selected for future Mars missions

Jan 20, 2023 (SPX)

ALUULA is supporting Thin Red Line Aerospace's development of cutting-edge, critical application hardware for future NASA lunar and Mars missions. "Their unique...

The rich meteorology of Mars studied in detail from the Perseverance rover

Jan 19, 2023 (SPX)

With regard to the aim of studying the atmosphere, the MEDA (Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer) instrument has been obtaining novel results. MEDA's lead rese...

Our Encanto: Sols 3716-3717

Jan 19, 2023 (JPL)

Before the science team commits to drilling the target "Encanto," we will first investigate the chemistry and composition of the target using APXS, ChemCam, and...

What is the Chemistry and Mineralogy Instrument?

Jan 19, 2023 (SPX)

For example, gypsum is a mineral that contains calcium, sulfur, and water. Anhydrite is a mineral that contains calcium and sulfur, but no water. The Chemistry ...

Back on the Job: Sol 3715

Jan 18, 2023 (JPL)

The Marker Band has proven elusive to drill. Curiosity has tried twice prior (e.g., sol 3676 and sol 3682-3683 blogs) and today's workspace, in particular the b...

To the Marker Band again: Sols 3712-3714

Jan 18, 2023 (JPL)

ChemCam will also be able to observe targets in the workspace, hitting one of the contact science targets, Paredao, with its laser, as well as two darker float ...

Use the Force, Percy!

Jan 13, 2023 (JPL)

Instead of a long time ago in a galaxy far away, this little tube was dropped just a few days ago on January 3, 2023, at a carefully selected spot in the "Three...

Ingenuity completes the A-Z tour of the Wright Brothers Field at Jezero Crater

Jan 13, 2023 (SPX)

During the flight, Ingenuity traveled a horizontal distance of 456 feet (139 meters) and reached an altitude of 33 feet (10 meters) while flying at a speed of 9...

Pausing to take in the view: Sols 3710-3711

Jan 12, 2023 (JPL)

We have enough images to look at the terrain that is in the distance, but not enough to see what is in front of the rover right now. This means we cannot do con...

Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds

Jan 12, 2023 (SPX)

Tissint, which crash landed in Morocco more than 11 years ago, is one of only five Martian meteorites that have been observed as they fell to Earth. Pieces of i...

In search of a new marker band drill site: Sols 3708-3709

Jan 12, 2023 (JPL)

Mastcam will acquire some multi-spectral imaging on the same target, and on the target "Pau Baru," seen in the upper right of the Mastcam image. This is an unus...

Researchers develop AI method for mapping planets

Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)

Deep Learning techniques, which use artificial neural networks to analyze data sets, can significantly improve the production process, as broadly shown in both ...

Moving along the Marker Band: Sols 3705-3707

Jan 09, 2023 (JPL)

On our first sol, ChemCam has a LIBS observation on the target 'Waimiri' followed by two mosaics on the Marker Band and the distant yardang on Mount Sharp. This...

A New Year on Mars and a Brand-New Workspace: Sols 3702-3704

Jan 04, 2023 (JPL)

Our view this morning revealed dusty, in place bedrock with dark fragments scattered over the surface, which do not appear to be in place. These dark fragments ...

A Scuff for the New Year: Sols 3699-3702

Jan 01, 2023 (JPL)

The activities we included in the remaining eight sols of Wednesday's ten-sol plan don't involve any driving or arm activities, so we picked up today's planning...

The 10 Days of Christmas: Sols 3689-3698

Dec 27, 2022 (JPL)

To allow for the MSL science team and engineers to take some time off over the holidays, we typically uplink long, multi-sol plans to keep Curiosity occupied wh...