Sliding Into the Weekend Like – Sols 3466-3468
It's been a challenging week in Gale crater, but Curiosity and the rover team are ready to put those challenges...
NASA's Ingenuity in contact with Perseverance after communications dropout
On Thursday, May 5, mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory received confirmation that the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter had...
Solving the mystery of frost hiding on Mars
A new study using data from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter may explain why Martian frost can be invisible to the...
To sample or not to sample
One of the prime objectives of the Perseverance mission is to collect a diverse cache of rock samples for eventual...
All the science in half the time: Sols 3464-3465
We have cleared the "Greenheugh pediment" and the mix of sandy, steep, and rough terrain that challenged our drives up...
NASA rocket to measure Earth's life-supporting secret: a weak electric field
Why does Earth support life, while Venus and Mars - and for all we know, any other planet in the...
Racks in the sand from about a hundred sols ago Sol 3463
On sol 3415 we encountered what we unofficially dubbed 'Gator Back' terrain and decided to not fight the "creature" on...
NASA's Mars Helicopter scouts ridgeline for Perseverance science team
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed an intriguing ridgeline near the ancient river delta in Jezero Crater. The images -...
Farewell to the Torridon Quad – Sols 3459-3461
We have left the pediment behind and are making our way back to an alternate "MSAR" or "Mount Sharp Ascent...
China's Zhurong travels over 1.9 km on Mars
The Mars rover Zhurong has traveled more than 1.9 km since it first set its wheels on the surface of...