MARSDAILY - ROBO DAILY

Sep 15, 2022 (SPX)

The paper is part of an ongoing attempt to understand the rock cycle on the Red Planet-that is, how rock layers are formed, altered, and destroyed-which would p...

Mars rover sees hints of past life in latest rock samples

Sep 15, 2022 (AFP)

While organic matter has been found on the Red Planet before, the new discovery is seen as especially promising because it came from an area where sediment and ...

Searching for Frost at Jezero Crater

Sep 13, 2022 (SPX)

Frost forms when the ground temperature gets below the frost point. The frost point is the temperature below which water vapor in the air can turn directly into...

Sols 3592-3593: Onwards

Sep 13, 2022 (JPL)

One Mastcam observation is an extension of a mosaic ("Parai Pond") that was started last week. Additionally, there is a Mastcam multispectral observation in the...

Glaciers flowed on ancient Mars, but slowly

Sep 08, 2022 (SPX)

Motion is part of the definition of a glacier. On Earth, meltwater gathers below glaciers and ice sheets, lubricating the downhill slide of these rivers of ice....

Martian rock-metal composite shows potential of 3D printing on Mars

Sep 07, 2022 (SPX)

The parts were made by Washington State University researchers with as little as 5% up to 100% Martian regolith, a black powdery substance meant to mimic the ro...

Everything is Dust in the Wind

Sep 05, 2022 (JPL)

Partly because there are no oceans, and partly because of the strong positive feedbacks between dust lifting and circulation strength, global-scale dust storms ...

An Unexpected Stop during Sols 3580-3581

Sep 01, 2022 (JPL)

When the onboard safety check sensed the wheels were climbing a feature larger than anticipated, Curiosity stopped mid-drive to await further instructions. Fort...

A vast and mysterious valley system in the southern Martian highlands

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

The HRSC has been mapping the Red Planet on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft since 2004. It was developed at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum f...

MAVEN and EMM make first observations of patchy proton aurora at Mars

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

In the new study, EMM discovered fine-scale structures in proton aurora that spanned the full day side of Mars. Proton aurora, discovered by MAVEN in 2018, are ...

Perseverance Rover team's first results

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

The first samples analyzed by NASA's Perseverance Rover, in the former crater lake named Jezero, are an intriguing mix of igneous minerals (e.g., from lava) and...

MIT's MOXIE experiment reliably produces oxygen on Mars

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

The MIT-led Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE, has been successfully making oxygen from the Red Planet's carbon-dioxide-rich atmosph...

A Whole New World - Sols 3578-3579

Aug 29, 2022 (JPL)

The orbital mineralogical information suggests the presence of Mg-sulfate bearing rocks in this area. Today's two sol plan provides our first opportunity to mea...

Perseverance rover retrieves key rocky clues to Mars' geologic and water history

Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)

They'll just have to wait a decade to find out the answer, until the samples can be scooped up from the surface and returned to Earth for dating in 2033. The sc...

Sols 3568-3570: That Was Close

Aug 28, 2022 (JPL)

The first sol of the plan begins with a lot of imaging. Before things get warm, ChemCam is taking a measurement with the laser of the "Arimu Mine" target, a sig...

Radar images from Perseverance reveal underground surprises

Aug 26, 2022 (SPX)

The rover, which is about the size of car and carries seven scientific instruments, has been probing Mars' 30-mile-wide Jezero crater, once the site of a lake a...

The sands of Mars are green as well as red, rover Perseverance discovers

Aug 26, 2022 (SPX)

What the rover found once on the ground was startling: Rather than the expected sedimentary rocks - washed in by rivers and accumulated on the lake bottom - man...

New research sheds light on when Mars may have had water

Aug 26, 2022 (SPX)

"The SuperCam instrument suite of remote chemical and mineralogical tools on the Perseverance rover has made some exciting new detailed observations regarding J...

Perseverance Makes New Discoveries in Mars' Jezero Crater

Aug 26, 2022 (JPL)

The findings are described in four new papers published Thursday, Aug. 25. In Science, one offers an overview of Perseverance's exploration of the crater floor ...

A World of Firsts

Aug 26, 2022 (JPL)

The first example of this was the surprise extension of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's operations. Ingenuity made history when it took flight and hovered above...