NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Picks Up an Unwanted Hitchhiker
It looks like the Perseverance rover has an unwanted passenger, a rock stuck inside one of its wheels. The image of the stone was recently…
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NASA Developing Rocket That Will Bring Mars Samples to Earth
Meet Angie Jackman, the project manager of the first rocket to launch from the surface of another planet, the Mars Ascent Vehicle. Right now, some…
A River Runs Through It: NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Onward to the Delta
The delta is calling and we must go! With one Earth year in its rearview mirror, the Perseverance rover has been racking up the odometry…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover: A View of the Red Planet (in Blue)
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars’ Jezero Crater called “Santa Cruz” on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day,…
Superoxides for Oxygen Farming on the Moon and Mars
The dusty faces of the Moon and Mars conceal unseen hazards for future explorers. Areas of highly oxidizing material could be sufficiently reactive that they…
Why and How NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Abrades Rocks
When the Perseverance rover finishes a drive and is exploring a new location, you may see it create a round, shallow hole in a nearby…
First Multiple-Sol Drive on Mars for NASA’s Perseverance Rover
Perseverance capped its first year on Mars by speeding back around Séítah toward what is expected to be the final sampling location in its crater…
Curiosity Rover Finds a Bizarre Rock on Mars That Looks Like a Flower
The Curiosity rover took a picture of something pretty enticing this week on the surface of Mars. While the object in question looks like a…
NASA Ingenuity Mar Helicopter: After Dusty Flight 19, Team Prepares for Flight 20
The Ingenuity team is beginning preparations for Flight 20! Flight 19 was successfully completed on February 7, 2022, at 20:21 PST (Sol 345 of the…
NASA Mars Perseverance: A Sol in the Life of a Rover
What does Percy do all day? A Martian day- or Sol- is 24 hours and 37 minutes long, and while every Sol is different, each…
Next Commercial Cargo Mission to Space Station, Celebrating First Year of Perseverance on Mars [Video]
The next commercial cargo mission to the space station, celebrating the first year of Perseverance on Mars, and the first science images from a recently…
The Devil’s in the Detail: Fascinating and Otherworldly Landscape on Mars
Chaotic mounds, wind-sculpted ripples and dust devil tracks: this image shows a fascinating and otherworldly landscape near Hooke Crater in Mars’ southern highlands. The image…
Mars Express: Making a Splash in a Lava Sea
Volcanoes, impact craters, tectonic faults, river channels, and a lava sea: a vast amount of information is captured in a relatively small area in this…
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…
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…
