NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Milestone: First Science Campaign Focused on the Jezero Crater Floor Completed
Perseverance has spent a little over one Earth year in Jezero crater. In the last week, the team reached a very special milestone as we…
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Variable Speed of Sound on Mars: What Sounds Captured by NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reveal About the Red Planet
A new study based on recordings made by the rover finds that the speed of sound is slower on the Red Planet than on Earth…
Searching for “Ground Truth” on Mars: Planetary Geologist To Lead Next Phase of Curiosity Rover Project
Scientists will compare thermophysical properties from rover to orbital data and analog measurements gathered on Earth to understand rock record. Launched in 2011, NASA’s Mars…
Martian Brain Freeze: Mars Express Reveals Utopia Planitia
New views from ESA’s Mars Express reveal fascinating ice-related features in Mars’ Utopia region – home to the largest known impact basin not only on…
Using Sunlight To Turn Astronaut Waste Into Fuel on Mars
To survive on Mars will mean maximizing use of all available resources. A team from Spanish technological center Tekniker is working on a system that uses sunlight to…
NASA Perseverance Rover: Drilling Into Mars With Lasers
Perseverance is adding a pop of color to Mars’ regular repertoire: purple. The color palette of Mars’ surface is one of muted hues. Burnt orange…
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures Images of China’s Rover From Space
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…
NASA Perseverance Rover’s Self-Driving Capabilities Put to the Test in Rush to Martian Delta
The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location….
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover: A Day in the Life of a T-DOC
It takes a team to plan Perseverance’s daily activities, including people in many different roles. One of these roles is called the tactical documentarian, or…
Mars Report: NASA Extends Ingenuity Helicopter Mission
With its recent 21st flight complete, the Red Planet rotorcraft is on its way to setting more records during its second year of operations. NASA…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Picks Up an Unwanted Hitchhiker
It looks like the Perseverance rover has an unwanted passenger, a rock stuck inside one of its wheels. The image of the stone was recently…
NASA Developing Rocket That Will Bring Mars Samples to Earth
Meet Angie Jackman, the project manager of the first rocket to launch from the surface of another planet, the Mars Ascent Vehicle. Right now, some…
A River Runs Through It: NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Onward to the Delta
The delta is calling and we must go! With one Earth year in its rearview mirror, the Perseverance rover has been racking up the odometry…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover: A View of the Red Planet (in Blue)
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars’ Jezero Crater called “Santa Cruz” on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day,…
Superoxides for Oxygen Farming on the Moon and Mars
The dusty faces of the Moon and Mars conceal unseen hazards for future explorers. Areas of highly oxidizing material could be sufficiently reactive that they…
Why and How NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Abrades Rocks
When the Perseverance rover finishes a drive and is exploring a new location, you may see it create a round, shallow hole in a nearby…
First Multiple-Sol Drive on Mars for NASA’s Perseverance Rover
Perseverance capped its first year on Mars by speeding back around Séítah toward what is expected to be the final sampling location in its crater…
Curiosity Rover Finds a Bizarre Rock on Mars That Looks Like a Flower
The Curiosity rover took a picture of something pretty enticing this week on the surface of Mars. While the object in question looks like a…
