Mars

Mars

A Miniature Mariner-C

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

NASA’s Mars Fleet Will Still Conduct Science While Lying Low

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

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Clocks 4,000 Days on Mars

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

NASA, JAXA Benefit from Collaborative Fellowship Experience

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

NASA Is Locating Ice on Mars With This New Map

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)

A Bear on Mars?

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

NASA’s Perseverance Captures Dust-Filled Martian Whirlwind

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