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Dust bedevils Perseverance with damaging winds

Jan 29, 2023 (SPX)

According to the research team, terrains with lower thermal inertia, which warm more efficiently at noon, favor the appearance of dust devils. They also found a...

Searching for buried treasure on Mars with RIMFAX

Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)

It is the first instrument of its kind sent by NASA to Mars and can "see" down to 10 meters (33 feet) depth. As the rover drives along, RIMFAX sends out a radio...

Aiming for the Triple Junction: Sols 3723-3724

Jan 27, 2023 (JPL)

I have been doing some analogue research in the Ntwetwe Pan, but while looking at the vast, muddy plains could not keep myself from thinking back to Mars. Is th...

Perseverance marks 1 Martian Year at Jezero

Jan 26, 2023 (SPX)

It has been a fitting celebration and end to the prime mission, as each sample tube dropped serves as a souvenir, reminding of all that has been accomplished th...

NASA launches Mars Sample Receiving Project Office at Johnson

Jan 25, 2023 (SPX)

The office will reside within Johnson's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science division, NASA's organization with expertise in processing and curating ...

Sol 3721: Wrapping up at the Encanto Drill Site

Jan 25, 2023 (JPL)

Although the Science Team is disappointed to leave this Marker Band location without a sample, Curiosity will use MAHLI, APXS, and ChemCam LIBS to analyze the c...

Sols 3718-3720: Go For Drilling at Encanto

Jan 23, 2023 (JPL)

Today's 3-sol plan includes the full drill on the first sol, followed by portion characterization on the second sol, and some remote sensing activities. The tea...

Ingenuity's 40th flight on Mars tracks a rocky road

Jan 23, 2023 (SPX)

On January 19, 2023 (Sol 681 of the Perseverance rover mission), Ingenuity completed its 40th flight, traveling a horizontal distance of 561 feet (171 meters) a...

ALUULA Composites selected for future Mars missions

Jan 20, 2023 (SPX)

ALUULA is supporting Thin Red Line Aerospace's development of cutting-edge, critical application hardware for future NASA lunar and Mars missions. "Their unique...

Our Encanto: Sols 3716-3717

Jan 19, 2023 (JPL)

Before the science team commits to drilling the target "Encanto," we will first investigate the chemistry and composition of the target using APXS, ChemCam, and...

What is the Chemistry and Mineralogy Instrument?

Jan 19, 2023 (SPX)

For example, gypsum is a mineral that contains calcium, sulfur, and water. Anhydrite is a mineral that contains calcium and sulfur, but no water. The Chemistry ...

The rich meteorology of Mars studied in detail from the Perseverance rover

Jan 19, 2023 (SPX)

With regard to the aim of studying the atmosphere, the MEDA (Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer) instrument has been obtaining novel results. MEDA's lead rese...

Back on the Job: Sol 3715

Jan 18, 2023 (JPL)

The Marker Band has proven elusive to drill. Curiosity has tried twice prior (e.g., sol 3676 and sol 3682-3683 blogs) and today's workspace, in particular the b...

To the Marker Band again: Sols 3712-3714

Jan 18, 2023 (JPL)

ChemCam will also be able to observe targets in the workspace, hitting one of the contact science targets, Paredao, with its laser, as well as two darker float ...

Ingenuity completes the A-Z tour of the Wright Brothers Field at Jezero Crater

Jan 13, 2023 (SPX)

During the flight, Ingenuity traveled a horizontal distance of 456 feet (139 meters) and reached an altitude of 33 feet (10 meters) while flying at a speed of 9...

Use the Force, Percy!

Jan 13, 2023 (JPL)

Instead of a long time ago in a galaxy far away, this little tube was dropped just a few days ago on January 3, 2023, at a carefully selected spot in the "Three...

Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds

Jan 12, 2023 (SPX)

Tissint, which crash landed in Morocco more than 11 years ago, is one of only five Martian meteorites that have been observed as they fell to Earth. Pieces of i...

Pausing to take in the view: Sols 3710-3711

Jan 12, 2023 (JPL)

We have enough images to look at the terrain that is in the distance, but not enough to see what is in front of the rover right now. This means we cannot do con...

In search of a new marker band drill site: Sols 3708-3709

Jan 12, 2023 (JPL)

Mastcam will acquire some multi-spectral imaging on the same target, and on the target "Pau Baru," seen in the upper right of the Mastcam image. This is an unus...

Researchers develop AI method for mapping planets

Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)

Deep Learning techniques, which use artificial neural networks to analyze data sets, can significantly improve the production process, as broadly shown in both ...