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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4788-4797: Welcome Back from Conjunction

Feb 08, 2026 (SPX)

We checked out a broken white rock in the workspace with APXS, MAHLI, and ChemCam's laser spectrometer and finished up imaging a sandy area we've kept an eye on...

NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don't Fully Explain Mars Organics

Feb 08, 2026 (SPX)

In March 2025, scientists reported identifying small amounts of decane, undecane, and dodecane in a rock sample analyzed in the chemistry lab aboard Curiosity. ...

Perseverance rover completes landmark AI guided trek across Jezero rim

Feb 06, 2026 (SPX)

The demonstration, run on Dec 8 and Dec 10, 2025, used generative AI to create waypoints for the six wheeled rover, taking over a complex decision making task t...

Martian toxin found to toughen microbe built bricks

Feb 06, 2026 (SPX)

The work builds on earlier studies in which the team used the soil bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii to turn synthetic Martian or lunar soil into solid "space br...

New clues to Mars habitability in discovery of ancient beach

Jan 30, 2026 (SPX)

In an international study led by Imperial College London, researchers uncovered that the so-called Margin unit in Marss Jezero crater preserves evidence of exte...

Ancient deltas reveal vast Martian ocean across northern hemisphere

Jan 13, 2026 (SPX)

The work focuses on a sector of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system on Mars, where previous mineralogical studies had already hinted at long lived water...

Tiny Mars' big impact on Earth's climate

Jan 12, 2026 (SPX)

Stephen Kane, a professor of planetary astrophysics at UC Riverside, began this project with doubts about recent studies tying Earth's ancient climate patterns ...

The electrifying science behind Martian dust

Jan 08, 2026 (SPX)

Planetary scientist Alian Wang has been shedding light on Mars' electrifying dust activities through a series of papers. Her latest research, published in Earth...

Sandblasting winds sculpt Mars landscape

Jan 08, 2026 (SPX)

In northern Eumenides Dorsum, the yardangs share a common orientation that reflects a dominant wind direction sweeping in from the south-east and curving across...

Thin ice may have protected lake water on frozen Mars

Jan 06, 2026 (SPX)

The study, published in AGU Advances Dec. 29, offers a new explanation for how lakes might have existed without a warm climate and why ancient Martian lake beds...

Curiosity's Nevado Sajama postcard captures Mars on the eve of conjunction

Jan 03, 2026 (SPX)

The ridge where Curiosity is parked belongs to the so-called boxwork unit, a landscape of resistant ribs and eroded hollows that the team has been dissecting wi...

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4750-4762: See You on the Other Side of the Sun

Dec 26, 2025 (JPL)

As part of a pre-planned transect between our two recent drill holes, "Valle de la Luna" (hollow) and "Nevado Sajama" (ridge), we successfully completed chemica...

NASA team presses MAVEN recovery before Mars solar conjunction

Dec 26, 2025 (SPX)

Specialists are processing fragments of tracking data captured on Dec. 6 during a radio science campaign. That partial signal indicates MAVEN was rotating in an...

Wind-Sculpted Landscapes: Investigating the Martian Megaripple 'Hazyview'

Dec 26, 2025 (SPX)

Despite Mars' thin atmosphere today (2% of the Earth's atmospheric density), wind is one of the main drivers of change at the surface, eroding local bedrock int...

Search for life should be top science priority for first human landing on Mars report says

Dec 22, 2025 (SPX)

The report concludes that human explorers offer scientific capabilities that cannot be replicated by robotic missions alone, particularly in complex geological ...

Perseverance rover cleared for long distance Mars exploration

Dec 18, 2025 (SPX)

Built and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Perseverance is following up the long-running Curiosity rover and was designed fr...

HiRISE camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passes 100000 image milestone

Dec 17, 2025 (SPX)

The milestone image, acquired on Oct. 7, shows mesas and sand dunes in Syrtis Major, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Jezero Crater, the landing site...

GoMars model simulates Martian dust storms to improve mission safety

Dec 16, 2025 (SPX)

Mars is dominated by a dry, dusty desert landscape where winds and rotating columns of air lift fine particles into the atmosphere and later return them to the ...

Ancient Martian brines left bromine rich fingerprints in jarosite minerals

Dec 14, 2025 (SPX)

Researchers from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Chengdu University of Technology synthesized potassium-and sodium-jar...

Maven stays silent after routine pass behind Mars

Dec 14, 2025 (SPX)

As MAVEN moved behind Mars, communications with the Deep Space Network (DSN) cut off as expected, but controllers did not reacquire the downlink when the orbite...