MARSDAILY - ROBO DAILY

Making Tracks up Marker Band Valley: Sols 3803-3804

Apr 20, 2023 (JPL)

As the rover continues her ascent up Marker Band valley, the rocks continue to vary subtly. Several targets in this two-sol plan aim to characterize the texture...

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Sols 3805-3806

Apr 20, 2023 (JPL)

There are abundant large blocks that we are trying to avoid and sand patches that are potential slip hazards for the rover. Unluckily, as Curiosity attempted to...

Curiosity gets a major software upgrade

Apr 19, 2023 (JPL)

"The flight software is essential to our mission, so this is a big deal for our team," said Curiosity Project Manager Kathya Zamora-Garcia of NASA's Jet Propuls...

Clouds Above, Contact Science Below: Sols 3800-3802

Apr 18, 2023 (JPL)

To accomplish that, the ENV team supplements our year-round cloud observations, the zenith and suprahorizon movies (which point directly overhead, and near the ...

Hey Percy, look at those boulders

Apr 18, 2023 (JPL)

Being on top of the fan, at one time in Mars' history there were rivers flowing across this area that built the fan itself. While these rivers carried the sedim...

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 50th flight

Apr 14, 2023 (JPL)

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed its 50th flight on Mars. The first aircraft on another world reached the half-century mark on April 13, traveling...

Slip and Pivot: Sol 3797

Apr 13, 2023 (JPL)

Thus, we had to pivot from a combined contact and remote science day, to one with remote science and a drive. But the interesting textures in the workspace and ...

Curiosity software upgrade complete: Sol 3796

Apr 12, 2023 (JPL)

That upgrade has been completed successfully, and Curiosity was back to work characterizing a local canyon in an effort to study the composition and sedimentolo...

NASA unveils 'Mars' habitat for year-long experiments on Earth

Apr 12, 2023 (AFP)

The facility, created for three planned experiments called the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA), is located at the US space agency's mass...

New interactive mosaic uses NASA imagery to show Mars in vivid detail

Apr 06, 2023 (SPX)

Cliffsides, impact craters, and dust devil tracks are captured in mesmerizing detail in a new mosaic of the Red Planet composed of 110,000 images from NASA's Ma...

Scoping out the next sampling stop for Perseverance

Apr 06, 2023 (JPL)

The science team is still pouring through data on Melyn, but plans for traversing to the next sample stop are already underway. Several hundred meters and a few...

Ready for Software Upgrade Sols 3786-3788

Apr 04, 2023 (JPL)

The Sol 3786 plan starts with a bunch of Mastcam observations, to look for wind-driven changes in wheel-disturbed soil at "Magneetrots" and acquire stereo mosai...

NASA's Perseverance Collects First Mars Sample of New Science Campaign

Apr 02, 2023 (JPL)

Scientists want to study Martian samples with powerful lab equipment on Earth to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to better understand the water c...

First Mars Sample Depot shaped by Rover, Lander, and Helicopter

Apr 02, 2023 (JPL)

The Mars Sample Return mission aims to bring some of the samples that Perseverance collects from Mars to Earth via tube transfer to a Sample Retreival Lander, v...

MOXIE Celebrates 2 Years on Mars: Discoveries and Work Left To Do

Apr 02, 2023 (JPL)

On April 20, 2021, MOXIE created oxygen on Mars for the first time. This April, we are celebrating two fantastic years on Mars and the advances MOXIE has made f...

A tour of Jezero Crater

Mar 31, 2023 (SPX)

The high-precision digital terrain models generated using data from the HRSC have made an important contribution to the selection of numerous landing sites on M...

Tiptoeing through the tricky terrain: Sol 3785

Mar 31, 2023 (JPL)

Meanwhile on Mars, we may not be tiptoeing through the tulips, but we are certainly, very carefully, tiptoeing our way through the many loose blocks and sand th...

Flight 49 Preview - By the Numbers

Mar 29, 2023 (JPL)

This flight is part of an aggressive driving campaign by the Perseverance rover up the river delta on Mars. Ingenuity's role in the mission is to provide the ro...

Journey to Tenby!

Mar 29, 2023 (JPL)

After dropping off our first sample depot at Three Forks, we began to explore further up the fan then we had ever been before! We drove past Knob Mountain, up t...

A Picture Perfect Day - Or To Be More Exact, a Day Perfect for Taking Pictures Sols 3783-3784

Mar 27, 2023 (JPL)

Each planning day has a very strict timeline, in order to make our scheduled uplink time, which is MSL's allotted time for using the Deep Space Network to get o...