The calm after the rock-toddler-tantrums: Sols 3684-3686
Sometimes, I think Mars rocks are just a bunch of toddlers whom we have told to tidy their play room....
Perseverance rover to begin building Martian sample depot
In the coming days, NASA's Perseverance rover is expected to begin building the first sample depot on another world. This...
Seismic waves revealed possible past meteoroid impact
The largest earthquake ever detected on Mars has revealed layers in its crust that could indicate past collision with a...
Sols 3682-3683: Perspective
In yesterday's blog, Natalie Moore wrote of our continued attempts to drill "Amapari" and word from our beloved rover that...
Mars' thin and turbulent atmosphere leads to curiously sized dunes
Among the mountainous dunes and small, undulating ripples of Mars' desert-like surface are sand structures, intermediate in size, that are...
The robotics of sampling regolith
The Perseverance rover recently collected its first two samples of Martian regolith! Regolith is dust and broken rock, and collecting...
Experiencing a Dust Devil
Recently a combination of instruments on the Perseverance rover has experienced a dust devil in a new way. The SuperCam...
Sound of a dust devil on Mars recorded for first time
The sound of a dust devil on Mars was recorded for the first time as the eye of the whirlwind...
Let's try that again Amapari: Sols 3677-3679
On Wednesday, we uplinked a drill plan, to drill the target "Amapari" in the Marker Band. Coming into planning this...
These freeze-drying algae can awaken from cryostasis, could help spaceflights go farther
Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys contain some of Earth's coldest and driest deserts. The environment there is so extreme that the...