Mars

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Curiosity (Rover)
Mars
Earth planning date: Friday, April 19, 2024 Curiosity has a three-sol weekend plan coming up as it makes progress along the edge of upper Gediz Vallis ridge. We have observations planned to investigate multiple bedrock targets with interesting rippled textures, dark-toned float, and the ridge.
Posted April 23, 2024
Curiosity (Rover)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Mars
Mars Exploration Program
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Missions
NASA Directorates
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads. Living creatures produce most of the methane on Earth. But scientists haven’t found convincing signs of current or ancient life on Mars, and thus didn’t expect to find methane […]
Posted April 22, 2024
Blogs
Curiosity (Rover)
Mars
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Earth planning date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Curiosity continues to make progress along the margin of upper Gediz Vallis ridge, investigating the broken bedrock in our workspace and acquiring images of the ridge deposit as the rover drives south. Today’s 2-sol plan focused on a DRT, contact science, and drive on the first sol, followed […]
Posted April 18, 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
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Curiosity (Rover)
Mars
Mars Exploration Program
The rover has arrived at an area that may show evidence liquid water flowed on this part of Mars for much longer than previously thought. NASA’s Curiosity rover has begun exploring a new region of Mars, one that could reveal more about when liquid water disappeared once and for all from the Red Planet’s surface. […]
Posted March 29, 2024
Mars
Mars Exploration Program
Mars Moons
Martian Moon Exploration (MMX)
Phobos
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
On March 14, NASA delivered its gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer instrument to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) for integration onto JAXA’s MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission spacecraft and final system-level testing.   NASA’s Mars-moon Exploration with Gamma Ray and Neutrons (MEGANE) instrument, developed by the Johns Hopkins Appli
Posted March 15, 2024
Mars
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
On Jan. 16, 2020, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured this image of two types of sand dunes on Mars: barchan and linear dunes. The small dots are called barchan dunes, and from their shape we can tell that they are upwind. The downwind dunes are long and linear. These two types of dune each […]
Posted March 8, 2024
Mars Exploration Rovers (MER)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars Exploration Program
Opportunity (Rover)
Spirit (Rover)
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity’s landing on Mars, part of a mission whose legacy will extend far into the future. In January 2004, twin NASA rovers named Spirit and Opportunity touched down on opposite sides of Mars, kicking off a new era of interplanetary robotic exploration. They arrived in dramatic […]
Posted January 17, 2024
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