Ingenuity makes short hop to the north for Flight 16
With Flight 15, Ingenuity began the journey back towards "Wright Brothers Field" at "Octavia E. Butler Landing," the site where...
Curiosity continues to dine on Zechstein drill fines
The SAM and CheMin instrument teams decided that they did not require further analyses of the "Zechstein" drill sample. It...
Still lots to do at the Zechstein drill locale
We are in the midst of the Zechstein drilling campaign. The SAM team are eagerly waiting for the results of...
Curiosity helping make Mars safer for astronauts
A radiation sensor aboard the spacecraft is providing new data on the health risks humans would face on the surface....
Curiosity powers on with extra energy for Martian science
When the operations team logged on today, we were prepared to pick up where Monday's team had left off in...
Mars – or Arrakis
Who hates deep sand traps more than golfers? Mars rover drivers (and probably Fremen too). When your vehicle is well...
Sols 3292-3293: Celebrating Zechstein with a Science Feast
We did it! Yet another successful hole has been drilled in Mars! Welcome to the family, "Zechstein!" Tosol, Curiosity is...
Docking the Perseverance robotic arm
Every time we collect a rock sample on Mars, Perseverance performs an hours-long set of carefully choreographed operations with its...
Astronaut training in the land of volcanoes
A team of astronauts, engineers and geologists is travelling to Spain's Canary Islands, one of Europe's volcanic hot spots, to...
Off-world colony simulation reveals changes in human communication over time with Earth
Elton John famously sang that Mars "ain't the kind of place to raise your kids", but one day space agencies...