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,…
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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…
Risky Winter on Mars: Each Sol Could Be Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s Last
Although NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has defied expectations, proved that powered, controlled flight of an aircraft was possible on Mars, and has been an incredible…
A Race Against Time: Quick Engineering Saves NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft
NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Resumes Science & Operations, Exits Safe Mode After three months in safe mode, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has finally returned to normal science…
Dust Avalanche on Mars
For decades, scientists have been observing dark landslides on Mars called slope streaks. First seen by the Viking orbiters in the 1970s, every orbiter mission…
Watch the Dramatic Video of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s Record-Breaking Flight
Farther and Faster Than Ever Before Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent flight in which the NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew farther…
Don’t Miss: Prime Viewing of Mars-Jupiter Conjunction
Most stargazers will have a prime viewing opportunity to observe the planets Jupiter and Mars draw incredibly close in the predawn sky on the nights…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Sampling Strategy for the Delta Front Campaign
The past few weeks have been exciting ones for the NASA Perseverance science team. At the “Enchanted Lake” site, we took our first look at…
Almost Lights Out: See NASA’s InSight Mars Lander’s Final Selfie
NASA’s InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The lander is covered…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots a “Doorway” on Mars
Door-Shaped Fracture Spotted by Curiosity at ‘East Cliffs’ NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this mound of rock nicknamed…
