NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Has a Pet Rock!
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 —…
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NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Now Selects Its Own Targets To Zap With Its Laser
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…
Don’t Miss: A Planetary Breakup, Hercules Star Cluster, and the Harp Constellation
What’s Up for June? A planetary breakup, prime viewing for a well-known star cluster, and the constellation Lyra. Skywatching highlights for June 2022 include the…
Planetary Defense Exercise Uses Apophis as Hazardous Asteroid Stand-In
Over 100 participants from 18 countries – including NASA scientists and the agency’s NEOWISE mission – took part in the international exercise. We know that…
Risky Winter on Mars: Each Sol Could Be Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s Last
Although NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has defied expectations, proved that powered, controlled flight of an aircraft was possible on Mars, and has been an incredible…
Watch the Dramatic Video of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s Record-Breaking Flight
Farther and Faster Than Ever Before Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent flight in which the NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew farther…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Sampling Strategy for the Delta Front Campaign
The past few weeks have been exciting ones for the NASA Perseverance science team. At the “Enchanted Lake” site, we took our first look at…
Almost Lights Out: See NASA’s InSight Mars Lander’s Final Selfie
NASA’s InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The lander is covered…
NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Starts Processing at Kennedy Space Center
Bound for an asteroid of the same name, the orbiter spacecraft is undergoing final preparations for its August launch. Since its arrival on April 29,…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots a “Doorway” on Mars
Door-Shaped Fracture Spotted by Curiosity at ‘East Cliffs’ NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this mound of rock nicknamed…
Ultracold Bubbles on Space Station: New Quantum Research Experiments With an Exotic State of Matter
Produced inside NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, the ultracold bubbles provide new opportunities to experiment with an exotic state of matter. Since the days of NASA’s…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Next Stop, Hawksbill Gap
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover was on the move this past week after finishing up remote science activities at Enchanted Lake, an exposure of finely layered…
NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Mystery: Engineers Investigating Telemetry Data
While the Voyager 1 spacecraft continues to return science data and otherwise operate as normal, the mission team is searching for the source of a…
Extreme Indian Heat Wave: NASA’s ECOSTRESS Detects Blistering “Heat Islands”
The instrument aboard the space station documents blistering hot temperatures in urban areas around Delhi during the historic heat wave on the Indian subcontinent. A…
Days Are Numbered: Power Levels Diminishing for NASA’s Marsquake Hunting InSight Lander
Dusty solar panels and darker skies are expected to bring the Mars lander mission to a close around the end of this year. NASA’s InSight…
Solving the Baffling Mysteries of Invisible Frost and Dust Avalanches on Mars
A new research study using data from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter may explain why Martian frost can be invisible to the naked eye and why…
NASA’s EMIT Mission Will Map Tiny Dust Particles To Study Big Climate Impacts
To help researchers model climate effects, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission will measure the composition of minerals that become airborne dust. Blown…
Watch the Official Trailer: NASA’s Psyche Mission to a Metal World
Join the journey as NASA’s Psyche mission team launches in 2022 to explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The…
