Mars

Goddard Space Flight Center
Mars
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
The Solar System
In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected — observations of an atmospheric effect never before seen in the Red Planet’s atmosphere.
Posted May 18, 2026
Mars
After NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drilled a sample from this rock on April 25, 2026, it withdrew its robotic arm and pulled the entire rock off the surface with it. Engineers spent several days repositioning the arm and vibrating the drill to try and get the rock loose. When it finally detached on May 1, […]
Posted May 15, 2026
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Goddard Space Flight Center
Mars
Space Communications & Navigation Program
On Thursday, NASA issued a Request for Proposal (RFP), seeking industry collaboration for the Mars Telecommunications Network. Reliable, high bandwidth communications is necessary to relay science data, high-definition imagery, and critical information during Mars missions.
Posted May 14, 2026
Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover recently took a self-portrait against a sweeping backdrop of ancient Martian terrain at a location the science team calls “Lac de Charmes.” Assembled from 61 individual images, the selfie shows Perseverance training its mast on a rocky outcrop in the foreground after creating a circular abrasion patch, with the western rim
Posted May 12, 2026
Perseverance (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars 2020
Planetary Science Division
Editor’s note: The text was updated on March 13, 2026, to correct the spelling of the outcrop nicknamed “Arathusa.” NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover recently took a self-portrait against a sweeping backdrop of ancient Martian terrain at a location the science team calls “Lac de Charmes.” Assembled from 61 individual images, the selfie shows Persevera
Posted May 12, 2026
Mars
Ingenuity (Helicopter)
Mars 2020
Perseverance (Rover)
The rotor blades that will carry NASA’s next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during March tests at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Posted May 7, 2026
Mars
Astrobiology
Curiosity (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Perseverance (Rover)
NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have captured two 360-degree landscapes that highlight how the missions are revealing details of the Red Planet’s formation, watery past, and potential for life. Located 2,345 miles (3,775 kilometers) apart from each other on Mars — about the distance from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.
Posted April 27, 2026
Curiosity (Rover)
Astrobiology
Mars
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS)
The Solar System
After years of lab work, the results are in: A rock that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drilled and analyzed in 2020 includes the most diverse collection of organic molecules ever found on the Red Planet. Of the 21 carbon-containing molecules identified in the sample, seven of them were detected for the first time on Mars. […]
Posted April 21, 2026
Craters
Mars
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a detailed view of a relatively fresh crater in this image released on June 3, 2015. The crater has a sharp rim and well-preserved ejecta. The steep inner slopes are carved by gullies and include possible recurring slope lineae on the equator-facing slopes. This crater is monitored for changes […]
Posted March 10, 2026
EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Mars
Space Weather
The Sun
Mars is not what it used to be. Once warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere, today the Red Planet is cold, dry, and draped by a thin atmospheric veil. The main culprit is a relentless stream of particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind. Over billions of years, the solar wind has stripped away […]
Posted February 26, 2026
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