NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Takes First Core From the Jezero Delta
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has taken its first sample from the Jezero delta! Since arriving at the delta, “Percy” has been observing and abrading different…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has taken its first sample from the Jezero delta! Since arriving at the delta, “Percy” has been observing and abrading different…
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Postpones Flights Until August It’s now dust season and winter in the area on Mars where NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is located….
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover is currently stopped for sampling at Skinner Ridge rock. An important aspect of Perseverance’s mission is sampling activities, and therefore the…
The six-wheeled roving explorer has inspected a stretch of the Red Planet to see if it is flat enough for NASA’s next Mars lander. While…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has a big job to do while roving across Jezero and exploring the Delta Front, which is campaign #2 of the…
Fine-Grained Rocks at Hogwallow Flats NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover’s exploration of the Hawksbill Gap area of the Jezero Delta continues! Over the last few weeks,…
The rainbow-colored map, to be released in batches over six months, covers the vast majority of the planet Mars, revealing dozens of minerals found on…
Find Clouds on Mars to Help NASA Scientists By spotting clouds in data collected by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the public can increase scientists’ understanding…
Newly published research quantifies the presence of organic carbon in Martian rocks. For the first time, scientists using data from NASA’s Curiosity rover measured the…
The Mars rover’s weather sensors witnessed daily whirlwinds and more while studying the Red Planet. During its first couple of hundred days in Jezero Crater,…
The MARSIS instrument on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, famous for its role in the discovery of signs of liquid water on the…
Study led by University of Chicago scientist deepens the mystery about the climate of early Mars. Mars once ran red with rivers. The telltale tracks…
Striking rock formations documented by the Curiosity rover provide evidence of a drying climate in the Red Planet’s ancient past. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has numerous moving parts, including the robotic arm, drill, mast, instrument covers, high gain antenna, and mobility system. An unintended collision…
The InSight mission’s team has chosen to operate its seismometer longer than previously planned, although the lander will run out of power sooner as a…
The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a technology experiment that achieved the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. It rode to Mars in the…
How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don’t— it chooses you. As we reported months ago, Perseverance acquired an unwanted hitchhiker —…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover features an impressive SuperCam that can examine rocks and soils with a camera, laser, and spectrometers to seek organic compounds that…