MARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Life may have thrived on early Mars, until it drove climate change that caused its demise

Oct 19, 2022 (SPX)

Most Mars experts agree that the planet started out with an atmosphere that was much denser than it is today. Rich in carbon dioxide and hydrogen, it would have...

Things that go bump in the night on Mars!

Oct 17, 2022 (JPL)

But have no fear: this isn't a ghostly monster or a vengeful Martian, but rather Perseverance going about its regular business! In general, Perseverance carries...

Sols 3621-3622: Planetary Power Puzzle

Oct 13, 2022 (JPL)

Necessary aside: molecular compounds considered essential to life are not biosignatures themselves and many can also be formed from geologic processes. However,...

NASA's InSight waits out dust storm

Oct 10, 2022 (JPL)

The mission carefully monitors the lander's power level, which has been steadily declining as dust accumulates on its solar arrays. By Monday, Oct. 3, the storm...

Sols 3614-3615: Chemin's Moment To Shine

Oct 06, 2022 (JPL)

The X-rays interact with the material and then diffract at specific angles. This creates a diffraction pattern that can be used to uniquely identify the crystal...

Curiosity targets Canaima bedrock for sampling: Sol 3612

Oct 05, 2022 (JPL)

For today's plan, the rover planners carefully sequenced the motions the rover's arm and turret will make to drill to approximately 35 mm depth, creating a ~1.6...

Rover findings offer glimpse of Red Planet's ancient landscape

Oct 05, 2022 (SPX)

Mayhew is a member of the science team for NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which is led by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California. In August, she and he...

India loses contact with budget Mars orbiter after eight years

Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)

Although "designed for a life-span of six months as a technology demonstrator, the Mars Orbiter Mission has lived for about eight years in the Martian orbit wit...

Unknown debris dislodges from Ingenuity Mars helicopter's foot during 33rd flight

Oct 03, 2022 (UPI)

"We're looking into a bit of debris that ended up on Ingenuity's foot during its latest aerial commute," NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab said in a statement on Twitte...

Insights into Utopia Basin revealed by Mars rover Zhurong

Sep 29, 2022 (SPX)

Utopia is an impact crater on Mars that is widely believed to have hosted an ancient ocean, making it a key target for exploration. However, we haven't had any ...

A broken rock won't break our Team

Sep 29, 2022 (JPL)

While working on operations, I have experienced what it's like when significant effort is required to plan an activity, only for the plan to be thwarted by the ...

China's Mars rover reveals more of subsurface

Sep 27, 2022 (XNA)

The discovery showed that the evolution of the Martian surface environment is more varied and complex than previously anticipated, experts said. Last year, the ...

Layering, not liquid: Astronomers explain Mars' watery reflections

Sep 27, 2022 (SPX)

"On Earth, reflections that bright are often an indication of liquid water, even buried lakes like Lake Vostok," said Dan Lalich, research associate. "But on Ma...

Once upon a rover

Sep 27, 2022 (JPL)

We rearranged those pages over and over during the next few months, standing back and staring at the wall as we continually asked ourselves: did the chain of lo...

New clues about Mars' early atmosphere suggest a wet planet capable of supporting life

Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)

This model shows that - as on the modern Earth - water vapor in the Martian atmosphere was concentrated in the lower atmosphere and that the upper atmosphere of...

China's Mars rover expected to resume work in December

Sep 22, 2022 (XNA)

Jia Yang, deputy chief designer of the Tianwen-1 Mars mission from the China Academy of Space Technology, said Zhurong will resume work once it has met these tw...

Sols 3599-3600: A Stay and Play Kind of Day

Sep 22, 2022 (JPL)

On the first sol of the plan, APXS and MAHLI will analyze the large nodules in the bedrock at the target "Nova Cintra" and a raised ridge feature at "Pirara" on...

Virtual hiking map for Jezero crater, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing site

Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)

"The map is the perfect tool for planning a future visit to Mars, with an interactive interface where you can choose from different available base datasets. Som...

NASA's stakeholder collaborations help inform Moon to Mars planning

Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)

Starting with 50 draft objectives developed by agency leaders across our mission directorates earlier this year, NASA invited its workforce, the public, industr...

Mars is littered with 15,694 pounds of human trash from 50 years of robotic exploration

Sep 21, 2022 (The Conversation)

I am a postdoctoral research fellow who studies ways to track Mars and Moon rovers. In mid-August 2022, NASA confirmed that the Mars rover Perseverance had spot...