MARSDAILY - SKY NIGHTLY

Dec 09, 2022 (JPL)

So today's two-sol plan is devoted to collecting data from APXS and MAHLI (supplemented by ChemCam and Mastcam), to evaluate the bedrock in our workspace, as se...

NASA's Perseverance rover gets the dirt on Mars

Dec 08, 2022 (JPL)

Scientists want to study Martian samples with powerful lab equipment on Earth to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to better understand the process...

Tiny underwater sand dunes may shed light on larger terrestrial and Martian formations

Dec 08, 2022 (SPX)

Known as barchans, these formations are commonly found in various sizes and circumstances, from finger-length dunes on the ocean floor, to stadium-sized dunes i...

Martian dust devil analogues in the Mojave Desert #ASA183

Dec 08, 2022 (SPX)

Dust devils could play a large role in the Martian climate, and they are crucial to understand during missions to the red planet. Louis Urtecho of NASA JPL and ...

Giant mantle plume reveals Mars is more active than previously thought

Dec 06, 2022 (SPX)

In the current issue of Nature Astronomy, scientists from the University of Arizona challenge current views of Martian geodynamic evolution with a report on the...

Second Time's the Charm: Sols 3671-3673

Dec 06, 2022 (SPX)

As Science Operations Coordinator, I work closely with the JPL engineering team and the science team. My job on a morning like this is to take stock of what act...

Mars set to wink out behind the Moon

Dec 05, 2022 (SPX)

But that's not all. On opposition night, viewers across large swaths of the globe will see the full Moon glide in front of Mars, in what is known as an occultat...

Analyzing the rhythmically layered bedrock above the marker band: Sols 3669-3670

Dec 02, 2022 (JPL)

The first time Curiosity encountered these rocks we were unable to analyze them because one of the rover's wheels was perched on a rock. Now that we are parked ...

NASA May Have Landed on a Martian Megatsunami Deposit Nearly 50 Years Ago

Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)

"The lander was designed to seek evidence of extant life on the Martian surface, so to select a suitable landing site, the engineers and scientists at the time ...

What's in a Vein?

Dec 01, 2022 (JPL)

Geological veins are mineral deposits that form when a pre-existing fracture within a rock is filled with a new mineral. They are exciting to planetary scientis...

Back to the Marker Band - Sols 3667-3668

Dec 01, 2022 (JPL)

The first sol is always the busiest on these "restricted" plans, this time because the decisional data needed for Wednesday planning has to be transmitted on th...

3-D Radargram brings new focus to Mars' north polar cap

Nov 29, 2022 (SPX)

Putzig's team, which included PSI researchers Matthew Perry, Isaac Smith, Aaron Russell and intern Isabella Mueller, produced and analyzed the 3-D image using o...

NASA awards contract for Mars Sample Return systems

Nov 26, 2022 (SPX)

The total value of this cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is $17,686,341. The period of performance runs from Nov. 30, 2022, through July 30, 2026. Honeybee Robotics...

A picture is worth a thousand words

Nov 24, 2022 (JPL)

When we see different colors like in this case, we might suspect that the two types of rocks had different origins. Other physical characteristics include size,...

An early start to a long weekend - Sols 3660-3664

Nov 23, 2022 (JPL)

This time those are Sols 3660 and 3661, so Tuesday and Wednesday will be pretty quiet in Gale while we catch up on downlinking old data. Any remote sensing acti...

Thanksgiving Plan Part Two - Sols 3665-3666

Nov 23, 2022 (JPL)

The image above shows one of our wheels and the JPL 'morse code' message. I wonder just how many of those we have made on Mars so far. Ten years and over 29 kil...

Reading the ripples at observation mountain

Nov 23, 2022 (JPL)

Billions of years ago, lakes, rivers, and oceans flowed across Mars, but today, wind is the dominant force shaping the geologic landscape. Over time, rock break...

The first life in our solar system may have been on Mars

Nov 21, 2022 (SPX)

Most researchers agree that there has been water on Mars, but just how much water is still debated. Now a study from the University of Copenhagen shows that som...

Perseverance investigates intriguing Martian bedrock

Nov 18, 2022 (JPL)

The feature is so tantalizing to the scientists because it is sandstone, which is composed of fine grains that have been carried from elsewhere by water before ...

Mars was covered by 300 meter deep oceans

Nov 18, 2022 (SPX)

Most researchers agree that there has been water on Mars, but just how much water is still debated. Now a study from the University of Copenhagen shows that som...