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Mars reveals liquid core as scientists measure first seismic waves

Apr 25, 2023 (UPI)

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show Mars' core is a completely liquid iron-alloy core with high percentages of ...

UAE probe offers unprecedented view of Mars moon

Apr 24, 2023 (AFP)

The probe, the Arab world's first interplanetary mission, has been orbiting Mars for two years, regularly flying past Deimos and its big sibling moon Phobos. It...

Up and Soon, Away: Perseverance Continues Exploring the Upper Fan

Apr 21, 2023 (JPL)

At Echo Creek, we're conducting both long distance and close-up measurements. Visible in the distance, Belva Crater has an interesting depth to diameter ratio c...

NASA selects NAU researcher for international mission to Martian moons

Apr 20, 2023 (SPX)

Christopher Edwards, an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, received a six-year, $650,000 grant for the Martian Moons eXpl...

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Sols 3805-3806

Apr 20, 2023 (JPL)

There are abundant large blocks that we are trying to avoid and sand patches that are potential slip hazards for the rover. Unluckily, as Curiosity attempted to...

Making Tracks up Marker Band Valley: Sols 3803-3804

Apr 20, 2023 (JPL)

As the rover continues her ascent up Marker Band valley, the rocks continue to vary subtly. Several targets in this two-sol plan aim to characterize the texture...

Curiosity gets a major software upgrade

Apr 19, 2023 (JPL)

"The flight software is essential to our mission, so this is a big deal for our team," said Curiosity Project Manager Kathya Zamora-Garcia of NASA's Jet Propuls...

Hey Percy, look at those boulders

Apr 18, 2023 (JPL)

Being on top of the fan, at one time in Mars' history there were rivers flowing across this area that built the fan itself. While these rivers carried the sedim...

Clouds Above, Contact Science Below: Sols 3800-3802

Apr 18, 2023 (JPL)

To accomplish that, the ENV team supplements our year-round cloud observations, the zenith and suprahorizon movies (which point directly overhead, and near the ...

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 50th flight

Apr 14, 2023 (JPL)

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed its 50th flight on Mars. The first aircraft on another world reached the half-century mark on April 13, traveling...

Slip and Pivot: Sol 3797

Apr 13, 2023 (JPL)

Thus, we had to pivot from a combined contact and remote science day, to one with remote science and a drive. But the interesting textures in the workspace and ...

Curiosity software upgrade complete: Sol 3796

Apr 12, 2023 (JPL)

That upgrade has been completed successfully, and Curiosity was back to work characterizing a local canyon in an effort to study the composition and sedimentolo...

NASA unveils 'Mars' habitat for year-long experiments on Earth

Apr 12, 2023 (AFP)

The facility, created for three planned experiments called the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA), is located at the US space agency's mass...

New interactive mosaic uses NASA imagery to show Mars in vivid detail

Apr 06, 2023 (SPX)

Cliffsides, impact craters, and dust devil tracks are captured in mesmerizing detail in a new mosaic of the Red Planet composed of 110,000 images from NASA's Ma...

Scoping out the next sampling stop for Perseverance

Apr 06, 2023 (JPL)

The science team is still pouring through data on Melyn, but plans for traversing to the next sample stop are already underway. Several hundred meters and a few...

Ready for Software Upgrade Sols 3786-3788

Apr 04, 2023 (JPL)

The Sol 3786 plan starts with a bunch of Mastcam observations, to look for wind-driven changes in wheel-disturbed soil at "Magneetrots" and acquire stereo mosai...

MOXIE Celebrates 2 Years on Mars: Discoveries and Work Left To Do

Apr 02, 2023 (JPL)

On April 20, 2021, MOXIE created oxygen on Mars for the first time. This April, we are celebrating two fantastic years on Mars and the advances MOXIE has made f...

First Mars Sample Depot shaped by Rover, Lander, and Helicopter

Apr 02, 2023 (JPL)

The Mars Sample Return mission aims to bring some of the samples that Perseverance collects from Mars to Earth via tube transfer to a Sample Retreival Lander, v...

NASA's Perseverance Collects First Mars Sample of New Science Campaign

Apr 02, 2023 (JPL)

Scientists want to study Martian samples with powerful lab equipment on Earth to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to better understand the water c...

A tour of Jezero Crater

Mar 31, 2023 (SPX)

The high-precision digital terrain models generated using data from the HRSC have made an important contribution to the selection of numerous landing sites on M...