NASA Mars Perseverance Rover: Ejecting Martian Pebbles
The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined last week. Our first success: The upper two pebbles were ejected from the…
The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined last week. Our first success: The upper two pebbles were ejected from the…
New research has confirmed the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars has been consistent over the past 600 million years. The…
Flight 19 for NASA’s Ingenuity is scheduled to take place no earlier than Sunday, January 23, 2022. The atmosphere of Mars is much less dense…
The first simulation of the ExoMars rover driving off its landing platform closed out an incredible year of preparations as the mission now marches with…
NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars on August 6, 2012, and since then has roamed Gale Crater taking samples and sending the results back home…
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission team has been working methodically and thoroughly, making good progress on understanding the best path forward to remove the uninvited pebbles…
There’s more to this image of Mars than first meets the eye: nestled in the detail of the cliff face that cuts through this scene…
Martian meteorite’s organic materials origin not biological, formed by geochemical interactions between water and rock. The search for life on Mars can teach us about…
Updated Febuary 15, 2022, at 2:35 p.m. PST (5:35 p.m. EST): Several weeks after the end of a dust storm on Mars, the solar panels…
Astronomers ended 2021 on a high with the launch on December 25 of the James Webb Space Telescope, a joint mission between the European Space…
On Wednesday, December 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring…
While many reflect on the past and bid it farewell, there’s a lot of exciting science to come in the next year. While many were…
The next flight on Mars marks the first of 2022 and the nineteenth for NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The current mission goal is to reach…
As the 2021 calendar year comes to a close, it’s nice to sit back and reflect on all the progress we’ve made on Mars this…
What has NASA’s Perseverance rover accomplished since landing on the surface of Mars in February 2021? Surface Operations Mission Manager Jessica Samuels reflects on a…
Since February 18, 2021, Perseverance has been exploring the Jezero crater floor, including an exposure of rock and sand that the rover’s science team calls…
Like a sprinkle of powdered sugar on a rich red velvet cake, this scene from the ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captures the contrasting colors…
What’s it like landing on Mars? Tough! But every time we land, we learn more. When NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover descended toward the Red Planet,…