Uncategorized USTC unveils high-energy Mars battery with extended lifespan for exploration October 28, 2024
Uncategorized Latest Findings from China’s Lunar and Mars Exploration Missions 2022-2024 October 27, 2024
Uncategorized The calm after the rock-toddler-tantrums: Sols 3684-3686 by Ensign December 20, 2022 0 Sometimes, I think Mars rocks are just a bunch of toddlers whom we have told to tidy their play room.... Read more
Uncategorized Perseverance rover to begin building Martian sample depot by Ensign December 18, 2022 0 In the coming days, NASA's Perseverance rover is expected to begin building the first sample depot on another world. This... Read more
Uncategorized Seismic waves revealed possible past meteoroid impact by Ensign December 18, 2022 0 The largest earthquake ever detected on Mars has revealed layers in its crust that could indicate past collision with a... Read more
Uncategorized Sols 3682-3683: Perspective by Ensign December 15, 2022 0 In yesterday's blog, Natalie Moore wrote of our continued attempts to drill "Amapari" and word from our beloved rover that... Read more
Uncategorized Mars' thin and turbulent atmosphere leads to curiously sized dunes by Ensign December 15, 2022 0 Among the mountainous dunes and small, undulating ripples of Mars' desert-like surface are sand structures, intermediate in size, that are... Read more
Uncategorized The robotics of sampling regolith by Ensign December 14, 2022 0 The Perseverance rover recently collected its first two samples of Martian regolith! Regolith is dust and broken rock, and collecting... Read more
Uncategorized Experiencing a Dust Devil by Ensign December 14, 2022 0 Recently a combination of instruments on the Perseverance rover has experienced a dust devil in a new way. The SuperCam... Read more
Uncategorized Sound of a dust devil on Mars recorded for first time by Ensign December 13, 2022 0 The sound of a dust devil on Mars was recorded for the first time as the eye of the whirlwind... Read more
Uncategorized Let's try that again Amapari: Sols 3677-3679 by Ensign December 12, 2022 0 On Wednesday, we uplinked a drill plan, to drill the target "Amapari" in the Marker Band. Coming into planning this... Read more
Uncategorized These freeze-drying algae can awaken from cryostasis, could help spaceflights go farther by Ensign December 9, 2022 0 Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys contain some of Earth's coldest and driest deserts. The environment there is so extreme that the... Read more