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,...
Mars rover Perseverance notches a year of science, tech achievements
The Mars rover Perseverance and its feisty sidekick helicopter Ingenuity have set records and pushed new frontiers for interplanetary space...
Sols 3383-3384: Picking Our Way to the Pediment
We are continuing our traverse towards the "Greenheugh pediment." We passed along this area on our detour to The Prow,...