Mars

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
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Mars
Solar Wind
Space Weather
The Solar System
The Sun
In December 2022, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission observed the dramatic and unexpected “disappearance” of a stream of charged particles constantly emanating off the Sun, known as the solar wind. This was caused by a special type of solar event that was so powerful, it created a void in its wake as […]
Posted December 11, 2023
Asteroids
Jupiter
Mars
Pioneer
Pioneer 10
Planets
The Solar System
This illustration made on Nov. 26, 1974, by Rick Giudice shows the Pioneer 10 spacecraft traveling through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. At the time, it was uncertain whether it would traverse it safely since the density of particles large enough to damage the craft was […]
Posted December 4, 2023
Mariner 3
Mariner 4
Mars
Planets
The Solar System
A model of the Mariner-C spacecraft seems to float in the darkness of space in this photo from a June 1964 Conference on New Technology at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Mariner-C and Mariner-D were identical spacecraft designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to fly by Mars and photograph the Martian surface. Mariner-C was […]
Posted November 28, 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
Curiosity (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
The Solar System
The mission team is making sure the robotic scientist, now in its fourth extended mission, is staying strong, despite wear and tear from its 11-year journey. Four thousand Martian days after setting its wheels in Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover remains busy conducting exciting science.
Posted November 6, 2023
NASA Centers & Facilities
Artemis
Gateway Program
Kennedy Space Center
Mars
People of NASA
A yearlong journey of cultural and professional development overseas has a NASA Deep Space Logistics employee excited about current and future collaboration with one of America’s key international partners in the agency’s Artemis program.    Katherine Cook, who develops cargo delivery services for NASA’s Gateway, recently returned to the agency’s K
Posted October 27, 2023
Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Solar System
The map could help the agency decide where the first astronauts to the Red Planet should land. The more available water, the less missions will need to bring. Buried ice will be a vital resource for the first people to set foot on Mars, serving as drinking water and a key ingredient for rocket fuel. […]
Posted October 26, 2023
Mars
Mars Exploration Program
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured this bit of ursine pareidolia on Dec. 12, 2022. While it resembles a bear we might see on Earth, this is actually a hill on Mars with a peculiar shape. A V-shaped collapse structure makes the nose, two craters form the eyes, and a circular fracture pattern shapes the […]
Posted October 5, 2023
Perseverance (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars Sample Return (MSR)
Planets
The Solar System
The six-wheeled geologist spotted the twister as part of an atmospheric exploration of Jezero Crater. The lower portion of a Martian dust devil was captured moving along the western rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Aug. 30, 2023, the 899th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The video, which was […]
Posted September 29, 2023
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