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January's Night Sky Notes: The Red Planet

Jan 06, 2025 (SPX)

Martian Retrograde Mars entered retrograde (or backward movement relative to its usual direction) on December 7, 2024, and will continue throughout January into...

University of Houston scientists solving meteorological mysteries on Mars

Dec 26, 2024 (SPX)

The study, led by Larry Guan, a graduate student in the Department of Physics at UH's College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, under the guidance of his adv...

Frosty landscape captured at Mars' South Pole

Dec 26, 2024 (SPX)

A closer examination of the left side of the image reveals dark areas where the carbon dioxide ice has sublimated - transitioning directly from a solid to vapor...

Evidence exists for hidden water reservoirs and rare magmas on ancient Mars

Dec 26, 2024 (SPX)

The study, led by Rice University's Cin-Ty Lee, demonstrates that the southern highlands' thick crust - up to 80 kilometers in some areas - was hot enough durin...

Perseverance blasts past the top of Jezero Crater rim

Dec 23, 2024 (JPL)

This ever-changing landscape has been our constant companion over the last five months as Perseverance first climbed out of Neretva Vallis, then past "Dox Castl...

Sols 4402-4415: Rover Decks and Sequence Calls for the Holidays

Dec 20, 2024 (JPL)

In total we're only planning about 438 images this holiday, which is a pretty light haul if you can believe it! We also didn't pass SRAP to unstow the arm (agai...

NASA honours Algerian parks with Martian namesakes

Dec 19, 2024 (AFP)

The Tassili n'Ajjer, Ghoufi and Djurdjura national parks have found their Martian namesakes after a proposition by Melikechi, which he sought as both a tribute ...

Anthropologists urge preservation of human artifacts on Mars

Dec 17, 2024 (SPX)

Holcomb's new study, titled "Emerging Archaeological Record of Mars," published in Nature Astronomy, emphasizes the need to treat human exploration materials on...

New study questions the potential for liquid brines on Mars

Dec 17, 2024 (SPX)

Dark surface features called recurring slope lineae (RSL), polygonal formations in Martian permafrost, and the possibility of liquid brines have all fueled disc...

NASA Mars Orbiter captures dust-covered InSight Lander

Dec 17, 2024 (SPX)

InSight, which landed in November 2018, was the first mission to detect "marsquakes" and provide detailed data about Mars' crust, mantle, and core. Over its fou...

NASA Outlines Latest Moon to Mars Plans in 2024 Architecture Update

Dec 16, 2024 (SPX)

Following an Architecture Concept Review, the 2024 updates include a revision of NASA's Architecture Definition Document which details technical approaches and ...

NASA performs first aircraft accident investigation on another world

Dec 13, 2024 (JPL)

The investigation concludes that the inability of Ingenuity's navigation system to provide accurate data during the flight likely caused a chain of events that ...

NASA rover surmounts Jezero crater rim to begin next science campaign

Dec 13, 2024 (SPX)

The ascent, which spanned 3 0.5 months and climbed 1,640 vertical feet (500 meters), included traversing grades of up to 20%. Along the way, Perseverance conduc...

Mars dust storms may be linked to warming weather patterns

Dec 10, 2024 (SPX)

Lead researcher Heshani Pieris emphasized the importance of understanding these storms for the safety of Mars missions. "Dust storms have a significant effect o...

Scientists map Mars solar radiation spectrum for the first time

Dec 10, 2024 (SPX)

Mars, with its thin atmosphere and lack of a global magnetic field, is vulnerable to intense space radiation, which presents significant challenges to human exp...

Liquid on Mars was not necessarily all water

Dec 05, 2024 (SPX)

Not so fast, the authors of a new Perspectives article in Nature Geoscience suggest. Water is only one of two possible liquids under what are thought to be the ...

Purdue scientist expecting new world to reveal itself to Mars rover

Dec 04, 2024 (SPX)

The mission's Perseverance rover is only weeks away from emerging from the 28-mile-wide Jezero Crater to explore new terrain. It's a point in the mission Horgan...

China's Tianwen-1 probe reveals new insights into Martian internal gravity waves

Dec 03, 2024 (SPX)

Recent research published in Earth and Planetary Physics by Professor Cunying Xiao's team at Beijing Normal University provides new insights into Martian intern...

Mars Ocean Analogs Completes Winter Solstice Voyage and Plans Future Expeditions

Dec 01, 2024 (SPX)

Departing from Morris Canal in Jersey City, NJ, the four-member crew-Captain Reid Stowe, Fred Sullivan, Luke Ribeiro, and Maxine Hoover-set sail on a mission co...

China aims to return Mars samples to Earth by 2031

Nov 28, 2024 (SPX)

The mission is scheduled for dual launches around 2028. A lander will collect samples from a designated site, which also serves as the landing location, ensurin...