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...
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...
Twin of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover begins terrain tests
OPTIMISM, the full-scale engineering model of Perseverance, begins a series of rigorous tests to assess the risk of potential driving...
Life on Mars search could be misled by false fossils
Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests....
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....
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...
Mars – or Arrakis
Who hates deep sand traps more than golfers? Mars rover drivers (and probably Fremen too). When your vehicle is well...
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...
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...
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...