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- NASA’s InSight Waits Out Dust Storm Sun, 9 Oct 22, 4:00pmInSight’s team is taking steps to help the solar-powered lander continue operating for as long as possible.
- Ten Years of Curiosity on Mars Sat, 6 Aug 22, 3:00pmToday marks 10 years since the Curiosity rover landed on Mars.
- Blue Ripples on a Red Planet Fri, 29 Jul 22, 7:00pmThough Mars is the Red Planet, false-color images can help us learn about its weather and geology. This image shows a variety of wind-related features on the Red Planet near the center of Gamboa Crater. Larger sand dunes...
- A team of designers imagines sustainable housing on Mars Fri, 8 Apr 22, 2:30amWith the modern attention once again focused on the space race, it doesn’t seem too futuristic to envision what everyday life on Mars might look like...
- NASA’s Curiosity Rover Measures Intriguing Carbon Signature on Mars Wed, 19 Jan 22, 9:00pmFrom NASA After analyzing powdered rock samples collected from the surface of Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover, scientists today announced that several of the samples are rich in a type…
- NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Makes Surprising Discoveries Fri, 17 Dec 21, 9:00pmThe preservation of organics inside ancient rocks – regardless of origin – at both Gale and Jezero Craters does mean that potential biosignatures (signs of life, whether past or present) could be preserved, too.
- Air Company wins first place in NASA's CO2 Conversion Challenge Wed, 22 Sep 21, 4:30amA technology, engineering and design-based company in New York has secured first place in NASA’s CO2 Conversion Challenge with a project that converts CO2 into sugars to create new resources on Mars...
- NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock Sat, 4 Sep 21, 7:00pmFrom NASA NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock The drill hole from Perseverance’s second sample-collection attempt can be seen, in this composite of two images taken on Sept.…
- Apply to live in a 3D-printed Mars dwelling right here on Earth Tue, 31 Aug 21, 1:30amDo you want to live on Mars? There have been books and movies about what it might be like, but now there’s a Mars replication right on Earth, and it needs inhabitants to test out the environment.[...]
- Clays, Not Water, Are Likely Source of Mars ‘Lakes’ Mon, 2 Aug 21, 7:00pm“In planetary science, we often are just inching our way closer to the truth,” Plaut said. “The original paper didn’t prove it was water, and these new papers don’t prove it isn’t. But we try to narrow down the...
- NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins Its First Science Campaign on Mars Sun, 13 Jun 21, 7:00pmThe goal of the campaign is to establish what four locations in these units best tell the story of Jezero Crater’s early environment and geologic history...
- NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Shining Clouds on Mars Sun, 30 May 21, 7:00pmNASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. The image is made up of 21 individual images stitched together and color...
- Salts Could Be Important Piece of Martian Organic Puzzle, NASA Scientists Find Fri, 21 May 21, 7:00pm“The fact that there’s organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old rocks, and we found it at the surface, is a very promising sign that we might be able to tap more information from better preserved samples below the...
- NASA’s Mars Helicopter to Make First Flight Attempt Sunday Sun, 11 Apr 21, 3:00pmThe Mars Helicopter is a high-risk, high-reward technology demonstration. If Ingenuity were to encounter difficulties during its 30-sol (Martian day) mission, it would not impact the science gathering of NASA’s Perseverance...
- NASA Invites Public to Take Flight With Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Wed, 7 Apr 21, 7:00pmNASA is targeting no earlier than Sunday, April 11, for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet. To mark a month of Ingenuity flights, the agency will host several events...