Sol 3395: Last Chance for Contact
Before the science team says "OK TO GO!," today's plan involves getting one of the last looks at the rocks...
Caution! Martian wind at work
This image from ESA's Mars Express shows part of possibly the largest single source of dust on Mars: a wind-sculpted...
Rocky Road offers plenty of tasty science bites during Sols 3391-3394
MSL planning was met with beautiful images of our path ahead, like this one. We ended up planning to look...
A Sol in the Life of a Rover
What does Percy do all day? A Martian day- or Sol- is 24 hours and 37 minutes long, and while...
NASA's Perseverance celebrates first year on Mars by learning to run
NASA's Perseverance rover has notched up a slew of firsts since touching down on Mars one year ago, on Feb....
Sols 3388-3390: Pediment Passage
Curiosity is advancing westward through a largely boulder-strewn channel that is leading us toward the Greenheugh Pediment. The Pediment is...
Students with Perseverance receive messages from Mars
The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency's "You've Got Perseverance!" campaign was honored with a message from the Red...
Psyche, the iron giant of asteroids, may be less iron than researchers thought
The asteroid 16 Psyche, which NASA intends to visit with a spacecraft in 2026, may be less heavy metal and...
Testing rocks on Earth to help NASA's Perseverance work on Mars
When NASA's Perseverance Mars rover tried to collect its first rock core sample last August, the outcome presented a puzzle...
Valentine's Day on Mars as Curiosity marks Sol 3387
Our Curious robotic explorer is spending another Valentine's Day in faraway Gale crater, Mars. For the first time since 2019,...