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NASA Announces CHAPEA Crew for Year-Long Mars Mission Simulation
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
Ross Elder, Ellen Ellis, Matthew Montgomery, and James Spicer enter into the 1,700-square-foot Mars Dune Alpha habitat on Sunday, Oct. 19, to begin their missio...
Over Soroya Ridge and onward
Sep 01, 2025 (JPL)
Soroya was first picked out from orbital images as a target of interest because, as can be seen in the above image, it appears as a much lighter color compared ...
Mars mantle holds fragments from ancient giant impacts study finds
Sep 01, 2025 (SPX)
Scientists believe massive collisions melted large portions of early Mars into magma oceans while forcing fragments of impactors and Martian crust deep inside t...
Martian mantle preserves shattered fragments from early planetary collisions
Sep 01, 2025 (SPX)
The study, based on seismic data collected by NASA's InSight lander, shows that seismic waves moving through Mars's mantle encountered interference consistent w...
Curiosity Captures Mars Landscape While Talking to an Orbiter
Aug 22, 2025 (JPL)
Being able to combine tasks shortens the rover's daily plan, requiring less power from Curiosity's nuclear power source, called a multi-mission radioisotope the...
Preparing rock analysis methods on Earth for future Mars samples
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
To prepare for its eventual return, scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech tested optical photothermal infrared spectroscopy (O-PTIR) on a...
Signs of recent life on Mars could be detected using new simple test
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
There is enormous interest in the possibility of past or present life beyond Earth, with space agencies spending a great deal of time and money exploring suitab...
Perseverance Rover Delivers Most Detailed Mars Panorama Yet
Aug 08, 2025 (SPX)
"This stunning vista is just a glimpse of what we'll soon witness with our own eyes," said Sean Duffy, acting NASA administrator. "NASA's groundbreaking mission...
Martian fractures reveal ancient forces and icy flows
Aug 08, 2025 (SPX)
The orbiter's High Resolution Stereo Camera first captured this area in April 2004, just months into its mission. These latest images reveal the faulted terrain...
SpaceX agrees to take Italian experiments to Mars
Aug 07, 2025 (AFP)
"Italy is going to Mars!" Italian Space Agency president Teodoro Valente said on X, adding that the scientific experiments would fly on the first Starship trips...
Unique Martian sulfate points to recent thermal activity and mineral formation
Aug 06, 2025 (SPX)
The team, headed by Dr. Janice Bishop, combined laboratory simulations with Mars orbiter data to identify this rare phase of sulfate in two regions near the vas...
Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Picks Up New Skills
Aug 06, 2025 (JPL)
Curiosity recently rolled into a region filled with boxwork formations. These hardened ridges are believed to have been created by underground water billions of...
Life Could Thrive Underground on Mars and Icy Moons Thanks to Cosmic Radiation
Jul 30, 2025 (SPX)
Led by Dimitra Atri, Principal Investigator at NYUAD's Space Exploration Laboratory within the Center for Astrophysics and Space Science (CASS), the research ch...
China Focus: Chinese scientist details first planned Mars sample-return mission Tianwen 3
Jul 25, 2025 (XNA)
Hou Zengqian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chief scientist of the Tianwen 3 mission, together with his collaborators, recently publishe...
Mars glaciers are purer and more uniform than previously thought
Jul 25, 2025 (SPX)
Work over the last 20 years has demonstrated that at least some of these glaciers are mostly pure ice with only a thin cover of rock and dust, but according to ...
Curiosity Rovers Boxwork Campaign Reaches New Heights on Mount Sharp
Jul 25, 2025 (SPX)
Beginning on Sols 4602-4603, Curiosity successfully scaled an 11-meter incline to reach the top of a ridge that marks the gateway to the boxwork region. From th...
Skyfall Mars helicopter fleet to scout future astronaut landing sites
Jul 25, 2025 (SPX)
Each rotorcraft would operate independently, capturing high-resolution surface imagery and subsurface radar data. This reconnaissance will guide the selection o...
Brines may form from seasonal frost on Mars study finds
Jul 22, 2025 (SPX)
According to Chevrier, Viking 2 remains the only mission to have definitively observed and analyzed surface frost on Mars. By merging this rare dataset with inf...
ExoMars completes successful Earth test of record breaking parachutes
Jul 22, 2025 (SPX)
The test simulated conditions in the thin martian atmosphere by matching the expected descent speed and low air density. The module experienced a 20-second free...
Ancient river systems reveal Mars was wetter than we thought
Jul 18, 2025 (SPX)
Yet today, concrete finds itself in a paradoxical bind: The very material that allowed societies to flourish is also responsible for up to 9% of global greenhou...
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