NASA's InSight Records Monster Quake on Mars by Ensign May 10, 2022 0 NASA's InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever observed on another planet: an estimated magnitude 5 temblor that...
Sliding Into the Weekend Like – Sols 3466-3468 by Ensign May 10, 2022 0 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 by Ensign May 8, 2022 0 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 by Ensign May 6, 2022 0 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 by Ensign May 5, 2022 0 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 by Ensign May 5, 2022 0 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 by Ensign May 5, 2022 0 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 by Ensign May 4, 2022 0 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 by Ensign May 4, 2022 0 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 by Ensign May 3, 2022 0 We have left the pediment behind and are making our way back to an alternate "MSAR" or "Mount Sharp Ascent...