Search for Ancient Martian Life: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sees Mars in a New Light
A cutting-edge instrument called SHERLOC, which hunts for molecules potentially related to ancient life, played a key role in a recent study. In its first…
A cutting-edge instrument called SHERLOC, which hunts for molecules potentially related to ancient life, played a key role in a recent study. In its first…
Scientists gain vital insights into Mars’ history and potential for supporting life. A new study using data from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has found potential…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed its 52nd flight, despite communication dropouts due to challenging Martian terrain. Contact with the helicopter was re-established on June…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover, after initial failures, successfully obtained a conglomerate rock sample from Otis Peak in Jezero crater, despite its crumbly nature. The varied…
NASA’s Perseverance rover is trying to collect a conglomerate rock sample from Mars to help scientists understand the planet’s geological history and its magnetic field…
The Mars Perseverance Rover struggled to collect samples from a crumbly, potentially conglomerate rock at the Onahu outcrop, before exploring another location, Stone Man Pass….
Martian maps are full of monikers recognizing places on Earth, explorers, and even cartoon characters. NASA’s Perseverance rover is currently investigating rock outcrops alongside the…
The six-wheeled scientist encountered the crater during its latest science campaign in search of rock samples that could be brought to Earth for deeper investigation….
Evidence left in rocks is leading scientists to rethink what watery environments looked like on ancient Mars. New images from NASA’s Perseverance rover reveal evidence…
The history-making rotorcraft has recently been negotiating some of the most hazardous terrain it’s encountered on the Red Planet. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter marked its…
NASA’s Perseverance rover recently collected its 16th cored rock sample, named “Berea,” as part of its latest science campaign exploring the top of Jezero Crater’s…
After completing the first sample depot on another world, the rover continues its hunt for Mars rocks worthy of study on Earth. NASA’s Perseverance rover…
NASA’s Red Planet rover snapped a portrait of the sample depot it has assembled with 10 backup sample tubes that could be returned to Earth…
Mars clouds are very much like Earth’s cirrus clouds but thinner. While Earth clouds can contain liquid water, the low temperatures and pressures on Mars…
Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so they could be studied on Earth in the…
In the image above, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is collecting two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – with a regolith sampling bit…
Scientists have made history by recording the first audio of an extraterrestrial whirlwind on Mars, thanks to the microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover. The study,…
The sample tube, which is filled with rock, will be one of 10 forming a depot of tubes that the Mars Sample Return campaign could…