Sun’s Curtain Call: Mars Missions Go Rogue During Solar Conjunction
Rovers and orbiters will continue collecting limited data during a two-week communications pause due to the position of Earth, the Sun, and the Red Planet….
Rovers and orbiters will continue collecting limited data during a two-week communications pause due to the position of Earth, the Sun, and the Red Planet….
One of six instruments aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM produced global maps of minerals on the Red Planet’s surface. After 17 years of…
A groundbreaking 5.7 terapixel image of Mars has been unveiled, offering a 20-fold increase in resolution for a detailed view of the planet’s surface. A…
Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global image of the Red Planet that was made at Caltech using data from NASA’s Mars…
Sand dunes of many shapes and sizes are common on Mars. In this example, the dunes are almost perfectly circular, which is unusual. They are…
This feature on the surface of Mars looks a bit like a bear’s face. What is it really? There’s a hill with a V-shaped collapse…
A new map of Mars is altering our perception of the planet’s watery past, and indicating potential landing sites for future missions. The map shows…
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…
Although the photo above isn’t new (it was captured by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on September 8, 2021),…
China’s Tianwen-1 lander and Zhurong rover touched down on the Martian plain Utopia Planitia on May 14, 2021 after spending about three months orbiting the…
Caltech researchers used the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to determine that surface water left salt minerals behind as recently as 2 billion years ago. Mars once…
By combining observations from three international spacecraft at Mars, scientists were able to show that regional dust storms play a huge role in drying out…
The descent stage holding NASA’s Perseverance rover can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere, its parachute trailing behind, in this image taken on February…
Marking its 15th anniversary since launch, one of the oldest spacecraft at the Red Planet has provided glimpses of dust devils, avalanches, and more. Since…
Other orbiters will continue relaying data from Mars surface missions for a two-week period. From February 17 to February 29, 2020, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter…
NASA has big plans for returning astronauts to the Moon in 2024, a stepping stone on the path to sending humans to Mars. But where…
Dust storms are common on Mars. But every decade or so, something unpredictable happens: A series of runaway storms breaks out, covering the entire planet…