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Sols 3614-3615: Chemin's Moment To Shine
Oct 06, 2022 (JPL)
The X-rays interact with the material and then diffract at specific angles. This creates a diffraction pattern that can be used to uniquely identify the crystal...
Curiosity targets Canaima bedrock for sampling: Sol 3612
Oct 05, 2022 (JPL)
For today's plan, the rover planners carefully sequenced the motions the rover's arm and turret will make to drill to approximately 35 mm depth, creating a ~1.6...
Rover findings offer glimpse of Red Planet's ancient landscape
Oct 05, 2022 (SPX)
Mayhew is a member of the science team for NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which is led by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California. In August, she and he...
India loses contact with budget Mars orbiter after eight years
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
Although "designed for a life-span of six months as a technology demonstrator, the Mars Orbiter Mission has lived for about eight years in the Martian orbit wit...
Unknown debris dislodges from Ingenuity Mars helicopter's foot during 33rd flight
Oct 03, 2022 (UPI)
"We're looking into a bit of debris that ended up on Ingenuity's foot during its latest aerial commute," NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab said in a statement on Twitte...
Insights into Utopia Basin revealed by Mars rover Zhurong
Sep 29, 2022 (SPX)
Utopia is an impact crater on Mars that is widely believed to have hosted an ancient ocean, making it a key target for exploration. However, we haven't had any ...
A broken rock won't break our Team
Sep 29, 2022 (JPL)
While working on operations, I have experienced what it's like when significant effort is required to plan an activity, only for the plan to be thwarted by the ...
Once upon a rover
Sep 27, 2022 (JPL)
We rearranged those pages over and over during the next few months, standing back and staring at the wall as we continually asked ourselves: did the chain of lo...
China's Mars rover reveals more of subsurface
Sep 27, 2022 (XNA)
The discovery showed that the evolution of the Martian surface environment is more varied and complex than previously anticipated, experts said. Last year, the ...
Layering, not liquid: Astronomers explain Mars' watery reflections
Sep 27, 2022 (SPX)
"On Earth, reflections that bright are often an indication of liquid water, even buried lakes like Lake Vostok," said Dan Lalich, research associate. "But on Ma...
New clues about Mars' early atmosphere suggest a wet planet capable of supporting life
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
This model shows that - as on the modern Earth - water vapor in the Martian atmosphere was concentrated in the lower atmosphere and that the upper atmosphere of...
Sols 3599-3600: A Stay and Play Kind of Day
Sep 22, 2022 (JPL)
On the first sol of the plan, APXS and MAHLI will analyze the large nodules in the bedrock at the target "Nova Cintra" and a raised ridge feature at "Pirara" on...
Virtual hiking map for Jezero crater, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing site
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
"The map is the perfect tool for planning a future visit to Mars, with an interactive interface where you can choose from different available base datasets. Som...
NASA's stakeholder collaborations help inform Moon to Mars planning
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
Starting with 50 draft objectives developed by agency leaders across our mission directorates earlier this year, NASA invited its workforce, the public, industr...
China's Mars rover expected to resume work in December
Sep 22, 2022 (XNA)
Jia Yang, deputy chief designer of the Tianwen-1 Mars mission from the China Academy of Space Technology, said Zhurong will resume work once it has met these tw...
InSight hears its first meteoroid impacts on Mars
Sep 21, 2022 (JPL)
A new paper published Monday in Nature Geoscience details the impacts, which ranged between 53 and 180 miles (85 and 290 kilometers) from InSight's location, a ...
Number of ancient Martian lakes might be dramatically underestimated
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
Through a meta-analysis of years of satellite data that shows evidence for lakes on Mars, Dr Joseph MICHALSKI, a geologist in the Department of Earth Sciences, ...
Mars is littered with 15,694 pounds of human trash from 50 years of robotic exploration
Sep 21, 2022 (The Conversation)
I am a postdoctoral research fellow who studies ways to track Mars and Moon rovers. In mid-August 2022, NASA confirmed that the Mars rover Perseverance had spot...
An Unexpected Stop, the Sequel: Sols 3594-3595
Sep 16, 2022 (JPL)
Curiosity remained surrounded by a mix of large rocks and sand, neither of which are overly amenable to swift Mars driving. In the case of the prior intended dr...
Perseverance investigates geologically rich Mars terrain
Sep 16, 2022 (JPL)
NASA's Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, collecting rock-core samples from features within an area long considered by scientists to b...
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