Mars 2020

Perseverance (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars 2020
After six months of effort, an instrument that helps the Mars rover look for potential signs of ancient microbial life has come back online.
Posted June 26, 2024
Perseverance (Rover)
Astrobiology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johnson Space Center
Mars
Mars 2020
Planetary Environments & Atmospheres
Tucked away with each rock and soil sample collected by the agency’s Perseverance rover is a potential boon for atmospheric scientists. Atmospheric scientists get a little more excited with every rock core NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover seals in its titanium sample tubes, which are being gathered for eventual delivery to Earth as part of the […]
Posted June 20, 2024
Perseverance (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars 2020
Mars Sample Return (MSR)
The Solar System
Originally thought of as little more than a route clear of rover-slowing boulders, Neretva Vallis has provided a bounty of geologic options for the science team.    After detouring through a dune field to avoid wheel-rattling boulders, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover reached its latest area of scientific interest on June 9. The route change not […]
Posted June 13, 2024
Ingenuity (Helicopter)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars 2020
Mars Sample Return (MSR)
Perseverance (Rover)
The Solar System
The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission — and to prepare the first aircraft on another world for its new role. Engineers working on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in […]
Posted April 17, 2024
Blogs
Mars
Mars 2020
Perseverance (Rover)
After investigating the high-standing bedrock at the Bunsen Peak workspace deep within the Margin Unit, the unique nature and composition of this rock was deemed worthy for collection of Perseverance’s 24th rock core sample, Comet Geyser!
Posted April 17, 2024
Perseverance (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars 2020
Mars Sample Return (MSR)
The Solar System
The 24th sample taken by the six-wheeled scientist offers new clues about Jezero Crater and the lake it may have once held. Analysis by instruments aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate that the latest rock core taken by the rover was awash in water for an extended period of time in the distant past, perhaps […]
Posted April 3, 2024
Perseverance (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars 2020
Engineers are working to stabilize a dust cover on one of the science instrument’s cameras. Data and imagery from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate one of two covers that keep dust from accumulating on the optics of the SHERLOC instrument remains partially open. In this position, the cover interferes with science data collection operations.
Posted February 13, 2024
Perseverance (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars 2020
The Solar System
Now at 1,000 days on Mars, the mission has traversed an ancient river and lake system, collecting valuable samples along the way. Marking its 1,000th Martian day on the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover recently completed its exploration of the ancient river delta that holds evidence of a lake that filled Jezero Crater billions of […]
Posted December 12, 2023
Ingenuity (Helicopter)
Mars 2020
Mars Sample Return (MSR)
Engineers will go beyond the ends of the Earth to find more performance for future Mars helicopters. For the first time in history, two planets have been home to testing future aircraft designs. On this world, a new rotor that could be used with next-generation Mars helicopters was recently tested at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory […]
Posted November 22, 2023
Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars 2020
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
Perseverance (Rover)
The Solar System
Rovers and orbiters will continue collecting limited data during a two-week communications pause due to the position of Earth, the Sun, and the Red Planet. NASA will hold off sending commands to its Mars fleet for two weeks, from Nov. 11 to 25, while Earth and the Red Planet are on opposite sides of the […]
Posted November 10, 2023
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