NASA’s Perseverance Rover Will Peer Beneath Mars’ Surface to Search for Signs of Life
The agency’s newest rover will use the first ground-penetrating radar instrument on the Martian surface to help search for signs of past microbial life. After…
The agency’s newest rover will use the first ground-penetrating radar instrument on the Martian surface to help search for signs of past microbial life. After…
What are some skywatching highlights in October 2020? Not one, but two, full Moons; Mars at opposition; and finding the Andromeda galaxy. Highlights October is…
It’s the first time machine learning has been used to find previously unknown craters on the Red Planet. Sometime between March 2010 and May 2012,…
The process of building landing pads, habitats, and roads on the Moon will likely look different than the common construction site on Earth. Excavation robots,…
The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The trajectory that will take the spacecraft from Earth to Mars…
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has discovered several ponds of liquid water buried under the ice in the south polar region of Mars. The spacecraft’s radar…
Perseverance is one of a few Mars spacecraft carrying laser retroreflectors. The devices could provide new science and safer Mars landings in the future. When…
PIXL, an instrument on the end of the Perseverance rover’s arm, will search for chemical fingerprints left by ancient microbes. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover…
“When you look at the team that put this robot together, and the team that put this launch vehicle together, that’s what they’ve done. They’ve…
Engineers test drive the Earth-bound twin of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover for the first time in a warehouselike assembly room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion…
Technicians move a full-scale engineering version of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover into its new home — a garage facing the Mars Yard at the agency’s…
Did you know NASA’s next Mars rover has a nearly identical sibling on Earth for testing? Even better, it’s about to roll for the first…
NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the Red Planet on July 4, 1997. Its tiny rover, named Sojourner after abolitionist Sojourner Truth, spent 83 days…
NASA’s InSight mission provides data from the surface of Mars. Its seismometer, equipped with electronics built at ETH Zurich, not only records marsquakes, but unexpectedly…
NASA-funded research recently reported in an American Chemical Society journal. Electrifying research by Clemson University scientists could lead to the creation of lighter, faster-charging batteries…
What’s Up for September? The Moon with Mars and Venus, and a star with a planet…that wasn’t. On September 6th, you’ll find the Moon extremely…
A new study from The University of Texas at Austin is helping scientists piece together the ancient climate of Mars by revealing how much rainfall…
A crisply rendered web application can show you where the agency’s Mars 2020 mission is right now as it makes its way to the Red…