MARSDAILY - SKY NIGHTLY

Historic Mars mission completes all preset tasks

Jun 30, 2022 (XNA)

The administration said on Wednesday that the Tianwen 1 mission orbiter has obtained medium-definition images of the entire planet, marking the completion of it...

Digging into our new drill hole: Sols 3517-3518

Jun 29, 2022 (JPL)

In addition, the team planned three full hours of remote science activities at this new drill site, including a ChemCam LIBS observation on the wall of the Avan...

Help NASA scientists find clouds on Mars

Jun 29, 2022 (JPL)

The air pressure is so low that liquid water simply vaporizes from the planet's surface into the atmosphere. But billions of years ago, lakes and rivers covered...

NASA Experiment Suggests Need to Dig Deep for Evidence of Life on Mars

Jun 28, 2022 (SPX)

Amino acids can be created by life and by non-biological chemistry. However, finding certain amino acids on Mars would be considered a potential sign of ancient...

NASA's Curiosity takes inventory of key life ingredient on Mars

Jun 28, 2022 (SPX)

"We found at least 200 to 273 parts per million of organic carbon. This is comparable to or even more than the amount found in rocks in very low-life places on ...

Fine-grained rocks at Hogwallow Flats

Jun 24, 2022 (JPL)

Unfortunately, the crumbly rocks at Devils Tanyard were broken and moved by the force of the abrasion. Nevertheless, the team was able to use the SuperCam and M...

Drilling Again - Sols 3512-3513

Jun 24, 2022 (JPL)

In November 2021 we faced an anomaly with the brake mechanisms in the arm and out of an abundance of caution, the team decided to pause any future drill-based s...

Curiosity latest drilling attempt a success - Sols 3514-3516

Jun 24, 2022 (JPL)

This is one of several times in MSL's mission that drilling had to be re-designed to overcome an anomaly, again requiring lots of careful planning and testing u...

Multiple Lab Analyses of Antarctic Minerals Offer a Better Understanding of Mars

Jun 24, 2022 (SPX)

Samples of intermittent brine discharge at Blood Falls at the terminus of Taylor Glacier, Antarctica were collected by Jill Mikucki of the University of Tenness...

NASA Mars Orbiter Releasing One of Its Last Rainbow-Colored Maps

Jun 24, 2022 (JPL)

The first portions of this map were released by NASA's Planetary Data System. Over the next six months, more will be released, completing one of the most detail...

A Long History of Flowing Water Recorded in Clay-Bearing Sediments on Mars

Jun 23, 2022 (SPX)

Some of the most extensively preserved landforms on Mars created by running water on its surface are found within the Margaritifer Terra region where deposits o...

On the Cusp of Drilling: Sol 3511

Jun 23, 2022 (JPL)

Unfortunately, as previously reported, temperatures this time of year in Gale crater are not overly conducive for quick, high-resolution APXS measurements, whic...

NASA's Curiosity Captures Stunning Views of a Changing Mars Landscape

Jun 23, 2022 (JPL)

For the past year, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been traveling through a transition zone from a clay-rich region to one filled with a salty mineral called su...

Software upgrade for 19-year-old Martian water-spotter

Jun 22, 2022 (ESA)

Mars Express was ESA's first mission to the Red Planet. Launched 19 years ago, on 2 June 2003, the orbiter has spent almost two decades studying Earth's neighbo...

Getting all the possible science in - Sols 3507-3511

Jun 22, 2022 (JPL)

There is a finite amount of time that we can fill with science and every team wants to make the most of their instrument, so planning days like this one involve...

A blueprint for life forms on Mars

Jun 22, 2022 (SPX)

After much searching under extremely difficult conditions, McGill University researchers have found microbes that have never been identified before. Moreover, b...

Martian meteorite upsets planet formation theory

Jun 19, 2022 (SPX)

A basic assumption about planet formation is that planets first collect these volatiles from the nebula around a young star, said Sandrine Peron, a postdoctoral...

Researcher awarded $100,000 to identify potential fuel source on Mars

Jun 19, 2022 (SPX)

Identifying probable sources of methane would be a critical step in advancing the exploration of Mars, as methane could be utilized to power either robotic or m...

Sols 3503-3504: And We're Back

Jun 16, 2022 (SPX)

More was possible because we had slightly different communication windows between Curiosity and Earth in this plan than in the Sol 3496 plan. This meant we coul...

A summer science smorgasbord: Sols 3505-3506

Jun 16, 2022 (JPL)

While our resolute Rover Planners worked on planning a drive to get us further down the road, everyone else agreed to fill up today's plan with even more scienc...