NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Searching for Sand Transport
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…
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Key Milestone for NASA’s EZIE Mission To Study Electrical Currents in Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) project – a mission to explore electrical currents in Earth’s upper atmosphere – has passed a crucial developmental milestone,…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Sometimes Things Get Complicated
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…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover’s Exploration of Hogwallow Flats – “The Bacon Strip”
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,…
NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Releasing Spectacular 5.6-Gigapixel Map of the Red Planet
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…
Help NASA Solve a Fundamental Martian Mystery
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…
NASA: Swarm of Tiny Swimming Robots Could Look for Alien Life on Distant Worlds
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing an intriguing concept that would allow potential planetary missions to chase interesting clues in subsurface oceans. Someday, a swarm…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Measures Key Life Ingredient on Mars for First Time
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…
Martian Dust Devils: NASA’s Perseverance Studies the Wild Winds of Jezero Crater
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,…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Stunning Mars Views – Unlocking Mysteries of Ancient Past
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…
How NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Avoids Collisions and Laser Zaps
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…
New Life: NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Science Operations
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…
NASA’s NuSTAR Mission Celebrates 10 Years Studying the X-Ray Universe
This small but powerful space telescope has spent a decade of observing some of the hottest, densest, and most energetic regions in our universe —…
Piloting NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter With a Dead Sensor
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…
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 —…
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…
