Students With “Perseverance” Receive Personalized Messages From Mars – Courtesy of NASA
The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency’s “You’ve Got Perseverance!” campaign was honored with a message from the Red Planet and a chat with…
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Racking Up Accomplishments: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Celebrates First Year on Mars by Learning To Run
The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including new distance records, as it reaches the end of the first of several planned science…
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…
Glowing Helicopters on Mars?
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…
NASA Perseverance Mars Rover: Speeding Back to Octavia E. Butler Landing
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…
NASA Perseverance Mars Rover: Nobody Tell Elmo About Issole
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…
NASA Selects Lockheed Martin Space To Build Rocket To Retrieve First Samples From Mars
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….
Widespread Megaripple Activity Detected Across the North Polar Region of Mars
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…
Martian Atmospheric Breakdown: Helicopters Flying on Mars May Glow at Dusk
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…
NASA Mars Perseverance Rover: Almost on the Rove Again
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…
Liquid Water Confirmed Beneath Martian South Polar Cap
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…
NASA Mars Perseverance Rover: Escaping Pebble Purgatory
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…
Black Beauty: Shock Damage in Martian Zircon a “One-Off Gift” From Mars
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…
Mars Curiosity Rover Sees a Strong Carbon Signature in a Bed of Rocks – Could Indicate Biological Activity
Carbon is critical to life, as far as we know. So anytime we detect a strong carbon signature somewhere like Mars, it could indicate biological…
Crater Tree Rings: Incredible Birds-Eye View Into an Ice-Rich Impact Crater on Mars
This feature could easily be mistaken for a tree stump with characteristic concentric rings. It’s actually an impressive birds-eye view into an ice-rich impact crater…
Extraordinary Microbes Living in Extremely Harsh Volcanic Lake Show How Life Might Have Existed on Mars
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…
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: Water Flowed on Mars a Billion Years Longer Than Thought
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…
Misled by a Mars Mirage: Hope for Present-Day Martian Groundwater Dries Up
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…
