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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 features an impressive SuperCam that can examine rocks and soils with a camera, laser, and spectrometers to seek organic compounds that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…