NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Goes on Vacation
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Postpones Flights Until August It’s now dust season and winter in the area on Mars where NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is located….
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NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Searching for Sand Transport
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover is currently stopped for sampling at Skinner Ridge rock. An important aspect of Perseverance’s mission is sampling activities, and therefore the…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scouts Mars Sample Return Campaign Landing Sites
The six-wheeled roving explorer has inspected a stretch of the Red Planet to see if it is flat enough for NASA’s next Mars lander. While…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Sometimes Things Get Complicated
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has a big job to do while roving across Jezero and exploring the Delta Front, which is campaign #2 of the…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover’s Exploration of Hogwallow Flats – “The Bacon Strip”
Fine-Grained Rocks at Hogwallow Flats NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover’s exploration of the Hawksbill Gap area of the Jezero Delta continues! Over the last few weeks,…
NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Releasing Spectacular 5.6-Gigapixel Map of the Red Planet
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…
Help NASA Solve a Fundamental Martian Mystery
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…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Measures Key Life Ingredient on Mars for First Time
Newly published research quantifies the presence of organic carbon in Martian rocks. For the first time, scientists using data from NASA’s Curiosity rover measured the…
Martian Dust Devils: NASA’s Perseverance Studies the Wild Winds of Jezero Crater
The Mars rover’s weather sensors witnessed daily whirlwinds and more while studying the Red Planet. During its first couple of hundred days in Jezero Crater,…
From Windows 98 to Mars 2022: Major Upgrade for 19-Year-Old Martian Water-Spotter
The MARSIS instrument on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, famous for its role in the discovery of signs of liquid water on the…
Why Did Mars Dry Out? Mystery Deepens As New Study Points to Unusual Answers
Study led by University of Chicago scientist deepens the mystery about the climate of early Mars. Mars once ran red with rivers. The telltale tracks…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Stunning Mars Views – Unlocking Mysteries of Ancient Past
Striking rock formations documented by the Curiosity rover provide evidence of a drying climate in the Red Planet’s ancient past. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has…
How NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Avoids Collisions and Laser Zaps
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has numerous moving parts, including the robotic arm, drill, mast, instrument covers, high gain antenna, and mobility system. An unintended collision…
New Life: NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Science Operations
The InSight mission’s team has chosen to operate its seismometer longer than previously planned, although the lander will run out of power sooner as a…
Piloting NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter With a Dead Sensor
The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a technology experiment that achieved the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. It rode to Mars in the…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Has a Pet Rock!
How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don’t— it chooses you. As we reported months ago, Perseverance acquired an unwanted hitchhiker —…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Now Selects Its Own Targets To Zap With Its Laser
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover features an impressive SuperCam that can examine rocks and soils with a camera, laser, and spectrometers to seek organic compounds that…
Volcanic Activity Beneath the Surface of Mars: Magma Makes Marsquakes Rock Red Planet
NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) launched in May 2018 and safely landed on the Martian surface in November…
