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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...
The Aonia Terra region of Mars in colour
Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)
The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), which has been mapping the planet on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft since 2004, was developed at the German Aeros...
How Perseverance averts collisions and zaps
Jun 10, 2022 (JPL)
To avoid this, Perseverance checks upcoming moves and laser firing using its Rover Collision Model flight software and autonomously stops any activity before a ...
Three years of Marsquake measurements
Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)
NASA's InSight lander successfully touched down on Mars on 26 November 2018. Seventy Martian days later, the seismometer - called SEIS - deployed on the surface...
Mars sleeps with one eye open
Jun 09, 2022 (ESA)
The 30 km-wide unnamed crater at the centre of the image is nestled within a landscape of winding channels. Conjuring images of veins running through a human ey...
Keeping Our Sense of Direction: Dealing With a Dead Sensor
Jun 08, 2022 (JPL)
In its new winter operations paradigm, Ingenuity is effectively shutting down during the night, letting its internal temperature drop to about minus 112 degrees...
Balmy Days on Mars - Sol 3496
Jun 07, 2022 (JPL)
Sadly, the timing didn't work in our favour today. APXS prefers temperatures below -20 C - the colder it is, the better the data quality is. But daytime tempera...
Bacterial cellulose enables microbial life on Mars
Jun 07, 2022 (SPX)
The scientists of the "Biology and Mars Experiment" (BIOMEX) project had already sent kombucha cultures to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2014 with th...
Beautiful Weekend Views - Sols 3493-3495
Jun 07, 2022 (JPL)
We're up close to a nifty layered outcrop, which is getting lots of imaging including ChemCam LIBS on targets 'Rukumata' and 'Guarico,' a ChemCam mosaic on 'Kam...
Mars is all shook up
Jun 06, 2022 (SPX)
The findings also provide clues about the composition of Mars and how other rocky planets in our Solar System formed billions of years ago. I Feel The Mars Move...
Perseverance Has a Pet Rock!
Jun 03, 2022 (SPX)
This is not the first time a rock has hitched a ride on a Mars rover mission. Some 18 years ago, a "potato-sized" rock found its way into the Spirit rover's rea...
Perseverance studies the devil winds of Jezero Crater
Jun 02, 2022 (JPL)
A paper recently published in Science Advances chronicles the trove of weather phenomena observed in the first 216 Martian days, or sols. The new findings enabl...
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft resumes science and operations, exits safe mode
Jun 02, 2022 (SPX)
"This was a critical challenge facing the mission, but thanks to the work of our spacecraft and operations team, MAVEN will continue producing important science...
Perseverance now selects its own targets to zap
Jun 01, 2022 (JPL)
Some of the names this past week included "Bald_Face_Mountain," "Little_Devil_Stairs," "Sunset_Hill," "Luck_Hollow," and "Moody_Creek." Perseverance logged near...
A steep but short climb: Sols 3491-3492
Jun 01, 2022 (JPL)
We'll crest onto a plateau in today's drive, but before we do, we have to finish climbing a small but steep slope. The topography today actually reminds me a li...
Why Did Mars Dry Out? New Study Points To Unusual Answers
May 29, 2022 (SPX)
"People have put forward different ideas, but we're not sure what caused the climate to change so dramatically," said University of Chicago geophysical scientis...
Up, Up and Away - Sols 3487-3490
May 29, 2022 (JPL)
As a member of the geology/mineralogy planning team and the APXS payload uplink lead today, I chose several interesting areas in the workspace for potential arm...
Ingenuity Adapts for Mars Winter Operations
May 27, 2022 (JPL)
Based on all available telemetry, the helicopter appears healthy, and we have resumed a modified form of operations. Assuming winter recommissioning activities ...
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captures video of record flight
May 27, 2022 (JPL)
"For our record-breaking flight, Ingenuity's downward-looking navigation camera provided us with a breathtaking sense of what it would feel like gliding 33 feet...
NASA's Perseverance rover's playlist like no other on Mars
May 26, 2022 (SPX)
Baptiste Chide, of Los Alamos National Lab, will discuss the importance of this acoustical information in the presentation, "Mars soundscape: Review of the firs...
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