Testing Terrestrial Rocks To Help NASA’s Perseverance Rover Work on Mars
Using carefully selected terrestrial rocks, engineers try to figure out how to work with crumbly rocks like the one the rover encountered on its first…
Using carefully selected terrestrial rocks, engineers try to figure out how to work with crumbly rocks like the one the rover encountered on its first…
If the Ingenuity helicopter would fly at night on Mars, its very possible the whirring rotors would create enough static electricity in the extremely dry…
Three abrasions and four sample cores later, the rover has finally departed the Séítah area and is embarking on the return leg of the crater…
America’s favorite red monster may not be interested in rocks, but Perseverance can’t wait to keep exploring the rocks on Mars! How does the rover…
The award brings NASA a step closer to the first robotic round trip to bring samples safely to Earth through the Mars Sample Return Program….
Megaripples, intermediate-scale bedforms caused by the action of the wind, have been studied extensively and thought to be largely inactive relics of past climates, save…
The whirling blades on drones flying above Mars may cause tiny electric currents to flow in the Martian atmosphere, according to a NASA study. These…
Science as Perseverance dislodges pebbles and prepares to head back north. We’ll soon be on the move again after shaking loose some pesky pebbles that…
A Southwest Research Institute scientist measured the properties of ice-brine mixtures as cold as -145 degrees Fahrenheit to help confirm that salty water likely exists…
The final two pebbles hitching a ride aboard our rover’s bit carousel are gone but not forgotten. I’ll give you the latest on why they…
Curtin University researchers studying a Martian meteorite have found the first evidence of high-intensity damage caused by asteroid impact, in findings that have implications for…
As far as we know, carbon is critical to life. So anytime we detect a strong carbon signature somewhere like Mars, it could mean biological…
This feature could easily be mistaken for a tree stump with characteristic concentric rings. It’s actually an impressive bird’s-eye view into an ice-rich impact crater…
Lake is dominated by bacteria from a single ‘extremophile’ genus. A few specialist microbes survive conditions analogous to those of Mars’ early history, reports a…
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…
Liquid water previously detected under Mars’ ice-covered south pole is probably just a dusty mirage, according to a new study of the red planet led…
The type of carbon detected is associated with biological processes on Earth. Curiosity scientists offer several explanations for the unusual carbon signals. After analyzing powdered…
Are there rainbows on Mars? Sadly no. But there are a whole lot of other conditions on Mars that we have right here on Earth!…