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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...
Christmas craterscape
Dec 27, 2022 (ESA)
Two large impact craters draw the eye, their interiors striped with alternating layers of water-ice and fine sediments. These 'polar layered deposits' are also ...
MOXIE sets consecutive personal bests and Mars records for oxygen production
Dec 27, 2022 (JPL)
The toaster-sized MOXIE uses a high-temperature, electrochemical process called solid oxide electrolysis to strip oxygen ions from the carbon dioxide in the atm...
No oxygen required to make these minerals on Mars
Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)
The minerals probably required abundant water and strongly oxidizing conditions to form, the scientists said. Using lessons learned from Earth's geologic record...
InSight goes silent as Martian dust and cold ends mission
Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)
The German Aerospace Center contributed measuring instruments and a science team to the lander mission. InSight was the first purely geophysical mission to expl...
Martian winter wonderland across Ultimi Scopuli
Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)
Image data from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express mission reveal an exciting landscape of layered deposits, frost, ice, and d...
Perseverance deposits first sample on Mars surface
Dec 22, 2022 (JPL)
Perseverance has been taking duplicate samples from rock targets the mission selects. The rover currently has the other 17 samples (including one atmospheric sa...
NASA retires InSight Mars Lander
Dec 22, 2022 (JPL)
NASA's InSight mission has ended after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars. Mission controllers at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
Leaving the Amapari Drill Site: Sol 3687
Dec 22, 2022 (JPL)
The "Sao Luiz" target will be analyzed by Mastcam to image the dark layers at the Marker Band and its relationship to the surrounding rocks. Mastcam will also i...
NASA retires InSight lander after four years on Mars
Dec 21, 2022 (AFP)
The US space agency said mission control had been unable to contact the spacecraft on two consecutive attempts, leading to the conclusion that its solar-powered...
Sol 3688: Arm Day
Dec 20, 2022 (JPL)
Once that long imaging block is done, we'll take out the robotic arm to take a cool mosaic of the layered rocks in front of the rover at the target Tucuxuma, al...
The calm after the rock-toddler-tantrums: Sols 3684-3686
Dec 20, 2022 (JPL)
First was target 'Voyageurs' and my colleague Lauren Edgar entitling her blog 'Hard as Rock' after the drill only made a dent into the surface, and only got a l...
Perseverance rover to begin building Martian sample depot
Dec 18, 2022 (JPL)
The depot-building process starts when the rover drops one of its titanium sample tubes carrying a chalk-size core of rock from its belly 2.9 feet (88.8 centime...
Seismic waves revealed possible past meteoroid impact
Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)
The research, led by UCLA planetary scientists and published in two papers in Geophysical Research Letters, could also indicate that alternating layers of volca...
Mars' thin and turbulent atmosphere leads to curiously sized dunes
Dec 15, 2022 (SPX)
Stanford University scientists have now used an AI model to analyze a million Martian dunes and uncover how these sandy waves form on our sister planet at a sca...
Sols 3682-3683: Perspective
Dec 15, 2022 (JPL)
These latest data confirmed we did not reach the desired depth and there was insufficient sample in the drill stem for analysis by CheMin and SAM. As such, the ...
Experiencing a Dust Devil
Dec 14, 2022 (JPL)
Yes, Mars has dust devils. They were first noticed from orbit by the Viking spacecraft. Nearly every Mars rover has experienced them in some way. The twin rover...
Sound of a dust devil on Mars recorded for first time
Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)
"We hit the jackpot" when the rover's microphone picked up the noise made by the dust devil overhead, the study's lead author Naomi Murdoch told AFP. The resear...
Let's try that again Amapari: Sols 3677-3679
Dec 12, 2022 (JPL)
Each drill campaign follows a very strict set of guidelines - each target needs to be carefully triaged to determine chemistry and physical properties of the ro...
Sol 3676 Another: 'Bore-ing' Day on Mars
Dec 09, 2022 (JPL)
Before drilling, we have a short amount of time for imaging. Drilling take a lot of time and power, so we had to limit what else we could fit in today. The rove...
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