MARS

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Two largest Marsquakes to date recorded from planet's far side
Apr 26, 2022 (SPX)
Seismic wave data from the events could help researchers learn more about the interior layers of Mars, particularly its core-mantle boundary, researchers from I...
New geological research shows Mars may have been more habitable than we thought
Apr 26, 2022 (SPX)
Located on the northernmost point of mainland Northwest Territories, Canada, the Smoking Hills (Inuvialuit name "Ingniryuat") are a unique geological formation....
Rad Rock Rumblings Sols 3453-3555
Apr 26, 2022 (JPL)
Starting on sol 3453, we break out our arm instruments for contact science with APXS and MAHLI on "Rumblings," a rock with an interesting knobby texture, follow...
Meteorites from the red desert of Australia support search for life on the red planet Mars
Apr 26, 2022 (SPX)
The examination of meteorites recovered from the Nullarbor Plain in western South Australia by a joint team that included Dr Andrew Langendam from the Australia...
Mars may have less water than previously estimated
Apr 26, 2022 (SPX)
Mars is believed to have collided with a huge astral entity around four billion years ago. The Late Heavy Bombardment refers to a period where it is believed th...
Perseverance starts Jezero Delta campaign
Apr 22, 2022 (JPL)
We haven't left the Crater Floor Campaign entirely behind us though, as we'll investigate the contact between the rocks of the crater floor and those that make ...
Curiosity goes oops Sols 3451-3452
Apr 22, 2022 (JPL)
Tosol, we were again dealing with a rock right under the rover, but this time, we were excited about it as the rover was in a stable position parked on a big pi...
Using bacteria to build settlements on Mars
Apr 21, 2022 (SPX)
The method for making these space bricks has been outlined in a study published in PLOS One. A slurry is first created by mixing Martian soil with guar gum, a b...
Sols 3449-3450: Comin' Down the Mountain
Apr 20, 2022 (JPL)
The beginning of the most recent drive sequence successfully extracted Curiosity from the rock that stopped last Wednesday's drive (see images Figure A and Figu...
NASA's Perseverance rover arrives at Delta for new science campaign
Apr 20, 2022 (JPL)
"The delta at Jezero Crater promises to be a veritable geologic feast and one of the best locations on Mars to look for signs of past microscopic life," said Th...
Perseverance at the Delta
Apr 19, 2022 (SPX)
The prospect of the delta for me is that every day will be full of excitement and could bring anything. Let me explain that a bit further. On a space mission li...
Sols 3444-3445: The curious case of cross-cutting ridges
Apr 15, 2022 (JPL)
How these structures actually form is an active area of investigation, and we hope the data we gather tosol will help us "think outside the box" and shed some l...
Digging into drill data takes perseverance
Apr 14, 2022 (JPL)
One of the first things we look at is how difficult it was for the drill to make progress through the rock. The rover has a rotary percussive drill, which means...
Sols 3446-3448: Weekend workload
Apr 14, 2022 (SPX)
We can instead send the weekend's commands through one of the orbiters at Mars, but a little later than planned. As a result, today's plan had to be adjusted ac...
Divide and conquer: Mars rovers to be superseded by swarms of two-wheeled robots
Apr 13, 2022 (SPX)
Since NASA's Pathfinder, the first successful Mars rover, landed on the red planet in 1997, researchers have used the same basic design: a six-wheeled autonomou...
NASA and UAE to share Mars mission datasets
Apr 13, 2022 (SPX)
A new partnership that encourages the sharing of data between NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) project and the Emirates Mars Mission's (EMM...
Sols 3442-3443: Deoch-an-Doris
Apr 12, 2022 (JPL)
We first visited it over a month ago as we were climbing up the Greenheugh Pediment and now we have given it a more thorough investigation on the way down thank...
Got a hitch in our giddyup - Sols 3437-3438
Apr 08, 2022 (JPL)
That meant we could not get out the arm for contact science, lest our large arm swinging around cause the rover to shift unexpectedly. It also meant that our ro...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover reroutes away from 'Gator-Back' rocks
Apr 08, 2022 (JPL)
But on March 18, the mission team saw an unexpected terrain change ahead and realized they would have to turn around: The path before Curiosity was carpeted wit...
Sol 3436: Motion Accomplished
Apr 07, 2022 (JPL)
Today I took on the role of "Supratactical Uplink Lead," and in that role I primarily worked to sketch out what our upcoming plans will look like. I was able to...
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