MARSDAILY - SKY NIGHTLY

Sols 3573-3574: Making up for Lost Contact Science

Aug 24, 2022 (JPL)

Take a look at this Sol 3572 Navcam image showing the sandy transition between these nodular and smooth rocks. Today my role was on MAHLI/MARDI uplink, which in...

Sol 3572: And Now for Something Completely Different? Or Not!

Aug 23, 2022 (JPL)

Before we get there though, the team noticed that there is an area that appears quite different from what we have been driving over, and the upcoming, potential...

Perseverance Soon Heads to 'Enchanted Lake'

Aug 23, 2022 (JPL)

The drive to "Enchanted Lake" is expected to begin in the next few days with arrival in early September. Before beginning the drive, we'll continue efforts to a...

New water map of Mars will prove invaluable for future exploration

Aug 23, 2022 (ESA)

The map shows mineral deposits across the planet and has been painstakingly created over the last decade using data from ESA's Mars Express Observatoire pour la...

Sol 3571: We'll Take a Little Bit of Everything Please!

Aug 22, 2022 (JPL)

ChemCam will use LIBS to look at the composition of representative bedrock here, at the target "Buck Island," which will also be imaged by Mastcam. MAHLI will a...

How Martian ionospheric dispersion effected on SAR imaging

Aug 19, 2022 (SPX)

Therefore, the information on the subsurface and the Martian ionosphere provides a scientific basis for understanding and exploring Mars, as well as for studyin...

Curiosity Versus the Sand Again: Sols 3566-3567

Aug 18, 2022 (JPL)

However, we found out this morning that Curiosity had automatically stopped the drive when the rover's wheels slipped more than expected right before they reach...

Mars model provides method for landing humans on Red Planet

Aug 18, 2022 (SPX)

The ANU team simulated the impact of prolonged exposure to zero gravity on the cardiovascular system to determine whether the human body can tolerate Mars' grav...

Harvesting resources on Mars with plasmas

Aug 18, 2022 (SPX)

Such a system could play a critical role in the development of life-support systems on Mars and the feedstock and base chemicals necessary for processing fuels,...

Sols 3562-3563: Adventures Over Sand

Aug 18, 2022 (JPL)

We decided to take advantage of these sandy adventures, so today we focused our contact science on a beautiful ripple that ended up in our workspace. "El Silenc...

Series Futuristic Space Themed Centers

Aug 18, 2022 (SPX)

A media studio to produce Space Hero, the global competition series, and an iconic hotel, where fans of the series can watch events unfold in real-time, will ad...

Sol 3565: Over, Around, and Through

Aug 16, 2022 (JPL)

But it is also fun to look back on how we got to where we are. The image above traces a small segment of our path traversing the obstacles that guard the pass -...

Slow and steady does it on Sol 3564

Aug 15, 2022 (JPL)

Sometimes, our drive forward is smooth and flat ... neither word can be used here! Our drive forward has abundant sand and sharp rocks, so finding a safe path i...

WVU space robotics research helps Mars rovers find their footing

Aug 12, 2022 (SPX)

Space roboticist Cagri Kilic, a Statler College of Engineering postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineeringat the WVU ...

Building on Mars or the Luna: You'll need extraterrestrial cement for that

Aug 11, 2022 (SPX)

So, where do you turn for construction materials when they are too big to fit in your carry-on and there's no Home Depot in outer space? "If we're going to live...

Surprise, surprise: Subsurface water on Mars defy expectations

Aug 11, 2022 (SPX)

The first surprise: the top 300 meters of the subsurface beneath the landing site near the Martian equator contains little or no ice. "We find that Mars' crust ...

New Year, New Challenges: Sols 3558-3559

Aug 10, 2022 (JPL)

Today's two-sol plan starts with a ChemCam observation of the appropriately named "Perseveranca" target, as a nod to dedication and hard work that has gotten th...

Progressing through the pass: Sols 3560-3561

Aug 10, 2022 (JPL)

The terrain continues to be tricky, with lots of sand and rocks, as you can see in the Hazcam image, and the rover planners are working hard to determine the be...

Ten Earth years later and Curiosity is still exploring Mars

Aug 09, 2022 (JPL)

While most of my colleagues had come along out of interest, I realised at that very moment that I would be part of a mission team, my very first experience of b...

NASA's Perseverance cores 12th sample, team assessing rover's coring bit

Aug 08, 2022 (JPL)

In those images, two small pieces of debris were visible - a small object on the coring bit (stored in the bit carousel) and a small hairline object on the dril...