Ch'al-Type Rocks at Santa Cruz by Ensign February 25, 2022 0 NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars' Jezero Crater called "Santa Cruz" on April 29,...
Sol 3395: Last Chance for Contact by Ensign February 24, 2022 0 Before the science team says "OK TO GO!," today's plan involves getting one of the last looks at the rocks...
Caution! Martian wind at work by Ensign February 24, 2022 0 This image from ESA's Mars Express shows part of possibly the largest single source of dust on Mars: a wind-sculpted...
Rocky Road offers plenty of tasty science bites during Sols 3391-3394 by Ensign February 23, 2022 0 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 by Ensign February 20, 2022 0 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 by Ensign February 20, 2022 0 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 by Ensign February 17, 2022 0 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 by Ensign February 17, 2022 0 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 by Ensign February 15, 2022 0 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 by Ensign February 15, 2022 0 When NASA's Perseverance Mars rover tried to collect its first rock core sample last August, the outcome presented a puzzle...