MARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Jul 20, 2023 (ESA)

Mars Express has imaged this area of the Red Planet before. Data collected by the spacecraft were used to create a large mosaic of Mawrth Vallis back in 2016, a...

CHAPEA Mars Simulation program a test bed for food systems and crop cultivation

Jul 20, 2023 (SPX)

Having undertaken extensive training for several weeks to adapt to habitat life, mission operations, safety protocols, and team dynamics, the crew is ready for ...

It's all still Rock and Roll to Us: Sols 3889-3891

Jul 18, 2023 (JPL)

These songs are most helpful right after landing, when the team is living on "Mars time" and operating the rovers on Mars' 25-hour daily schedule. Scheduling sh...

The Lion's Mane: Sols 3892-3893

Jul 17, 2023 (JPL)

So this mini campaign will bring us as close as possible to the cluster, for lots and lots of imaging to be analyzed, which will allow us to characterize the cr...

Sols 3887-3888: The Vastness

Jul 14, 2023 (JPL)

Tosol is sol 3887. Warm the Remote Sensing Mast, arm, Mastcam, Navcam, and Front Hazcam. Unstow the arm and find the surface of the target "Sounion" with APXS. ...

Earth and Moon seen from Mars

Jul 14, 2023 (ESA)

Look again over several weeks and - with the aid of binoculars - you'll see a little white dot orbiting around a bigger dot. That's our Moon, orbiting Earth. Th...

SHERLOC instrument offers new perspective on Jezero Crater, Mars

Jul 13, 2023 (SPX)

"This is also one of the first reports of potential organics in Jezero crater," said Ashley E. Murphy, a research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute a...

New study reveals evidence of diverse organic material on Mars

Jul 13, 2023 (SPX)

Scientists have long been fueled by the possibility of finding organic carbon on Mars, and while previous missions provided valuable insights, the latest resear...

Planning Take Two: Sols 3885-3886

Jul 12, 2023 (JPL)

To check on the state of the rover during runout, we have created what is known as a "runout beep." When it doesn't have any normal planning instructions (in th...

Sols 3882-3884: Weekend Routine for a Red Rover

Jul 12, 2023 (JPL)

In the meantime, I'm using my MAHLI brain to plan some close (and some extremely close) images of the terrain in front of us. And since the downlink arrived as ...

First CHAPEA Crew Begins 378-Day Mission

Jul 11, 2023 (SPX)

This is the first of three planned missions. NASA will use research gained from CHAPEA to determine how to best support crew health and performance while living...

Martian dunes eroded by a shift in prevailing winds after the planet's last ice age

Jul 06, 2023 (SPX)

Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories, Institute of Geology and Geophysics and Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy o...

Heading toward a cluster of craters: Sols 3880-3881

Jul 05, 2023 (JPL)

The rover will use DRT plus MAHLI, APXS, and Mastcam multispectral data to characterize the bedrock at "Roghi" (I got the honor of picking the name for this tar...

Ingenuity phones home

Jul 03, 2023 (JPL)

The Ingenuity team expected the communications dropout because a hill stood between the helicopter's landing location and the Perseverance rover's position, blo...

Gullies on Mars could have been formed by recent periods of liquid meltwater

Jun 30, 2023 (SPX)

The study, published in Science, focuses on Martian gullies, which look eerily similar to gullies that form on Earth in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica and are ca...

A bumpy road ahead for Curiosity: Sols 3876-3879

Jun 30, 2023 (JPL)

For some of our Mastcam imaging, we also move the arm out of the way as to reduce shadow in our images. Our planned drive was more or less a success - we made i...

Up up up and finally over: Sols 3873-3875

Jun 28, 2023 (JPL)

Today we planned a "Touch and Go" plan. Before we push out onto the ridge, we will characterise the local bedrock at "Madero" with APXS and MAHLI on some brushe...

Advanced space technology enabling 2024 ESCAPADE mission to Mars

Jun 28, 2023 (SPX)

The partnership centers around NASA's forthcoming Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission, scheduled for launch in late 2024. T...

Zhurong rover detects extremely weak magnetic fields on surface of Mars' Utopia Basin

Jun 27, 2023 (SPX)

The researchers utilized two fluxgate magnetometers aboard the Zhurong rover to conduct the first magnetic field survey in the Utopia Basin on the Martian surfa...

Back on Track: Sols 3871-3872

Jun 26, 2023 (JPL)

Our two nearby targets are bedrock blocks: the nodular bedrock 'Lousoi,' which we'll be investigating up close (the 'touching' in the touch-and-go) with APXS an...