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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...
Mastcam-Ing All the Things: Sols 3480-3482
May 24, 2022 (JPL)
As APXS planner today, I had hoped we would find something to DRT and remove some dust in this workspace, but I was not very optimistic, as the bedrock is rough...
InSight's Final Selfie
May 24, 2022 (JPL)
The arm needs to move several times in order to capture a full selfie. Because InSight's dusty solar panels are producing less power, the team will soon put the...
China's Zhurong rover switches to dormant mode in severe Martian dust storm
May 20, 2022 (XNA)
The latest images taken by cameras onboard China's Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter show a dust storm passing over the patrol area of Zhurong. Scientists compared them wi...
Sampling Strategy for the Delta Front Campaign
May 20, 2022 (JPL)
Since then, we've re-traced our steps back towards "Three Forks" and have begun the ascent of the delta near "Hawksbill Gap." It's along this Hawksbill Gap rout...
Status Update on NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft
May 20, 2022 (SPX)
In this configuration, however, MAVEN cannot perform communications relays for other spacecraft on Mars and is performing only limited science observations. The...
Everyone wants a piece of this Pie - Sols 3478-3479
May 19, 2022 (JPL)
Not only did the Sol 3476 drive succeed, but placed us perfectly in front of the most beautiful laminated outcrop, a true canvas of Martian art painted by natur...
Physicists explain how type of aurora on Mars is formed
May 19, 2022 (SPX)
Instead, the physicists report, discrete aurora on Mars are governed by the interaction between the solar wind-the constant jet of charged particles from the su...
A SAM Methane Experiment Between Drives Sols 3476-3477
May 18, 2022 (JPL)
In this past weekend plan's blog, "A Different Perspective on Mirador Butte," Dr. Schwenzer noted how Curiosity continually monitors its environment, including ...
Solar heat likely the primary cause of dust storms on Mars
May 18, 2022 (SPX)
The radiant energy budget (a term referring to the measurement of solar energy a planet takes in from the sun then releases as heat) of a planet is a fundamenta...
Mars' emitted energy and seasonal energy imbalance
May 18, 2022 (SPX)
Mars' extreme imbalance in energy budget (a term referring to the measurement of solar energy a planet takes in from the sun then releases as heat) was document...
NASA's InSight Still Hunting Marsquakes as Power Levels Diminish
May 18, 2022 (JPL)
The information gathered from those quakes has allowed scientists to measure the depth and composition of Mars' crust, mantle, and core. Additionally, InSight (...
End of the line nears for NASA InSight Mars lander
May 18, 2022 (AFP)
The lander will, however, leave behind a legacy of data that will be tapped by scientists around the world for years to come, helping to improve our understandi...
Next Stop: Hawksbill Gap
May 17, 2022 (JPL)
Planning this past week at Jezero has mostly focused on making drive progress with additional reconnaissance imaging to scout our upcoming walkabout and support...
Could people breathe the air on Mars
May 17, 2022 (SPX)
For starters, here's a short list: Water, food, shelter - and oxygen. Oxygen is in the air we breathe here on Earth. Plants and some kinds of bacteria provide i...
New study indicates limited water circulation late in the history of Mars
May 16, 2022 (SPX)
In a cloud of smoke, NASA's spacecraft Perseverance parachuted onto the dusty surface of Mars in February 2021. For several years, the vehicle will skid around ...
Study reveals new way to reconstruct past climate on Mars
May 16, 2022 (SPX)
The findings, published in Geology date when climate was far more erosive in Mars' past - with the implication that there were sustained periods of time when li...
A Different Perspective on Mirador Butte Sols 3473-3475
May 13, 2022 (JPL)
The almost rectangular block in the upper middle of today's navigation camera image can be seen in the upper left part of yesterday's blog's image. There was lo...
Sols 3471-3472: Up The Mountain We Go!
May 13, 2022 (JPL)
In today's 2-sol plan we continued our systematic chemical characterization of the bedrock using APXS and ChemCam as we make our through the clay/sulfate transi...
Multi Part Driving and More - Sols 3469-3470
May 12, 2022 (JPL)
Sol 3469 will start out with a lot of camera imaging and laser zapping! We'll begin with an atmospheric dust observation with the Navcam. Mastcam will image the...
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