NASA Mars Orbiter Releasing One of Its Last Rainbow-Colored Maps
Scientists are about to get a new look at Mars, thanks to a multicolored 5.6-gigapixel map. Covering 86% of the ...
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Chinese official says its Mars sample mission will beat NASA back to Earth
A senior Chinese space official said on Monday the country is on track to bring back rocks from the surface ...
How Perseverance averts collisions and zaps
Perseverance has a number of moving parts, including the robotic arm, drill, mast, instrument covers, high gain antenna, and mobility ...
Keeping Our Sense of Direction: Dealing With a Dead Sensor
As the season has turned to winter in Jezero Crater, conditions have become increasingly challenging for Ingenuity, which was designed ...
Perseverance Has a Pet Rock!
How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don't- it chooses you. For the past 4 months, Perseverance ...
Perseverance studies the devil winds of Jezero Crater
During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust ...
Ingenuity Adapts for Mars Winter Operations
As detailed in our last blog post, for the first time in our yearlong extended mission we had a loss ...
NASA's Perseverance rover's playlist like no other on Mars
Since NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars, its two microphones have recorded hours of audio that provide valuable information about ...
Sampling Strategy for the Delta Front Campaign
The past few weeks have been exciting ones for Perseverance's science team. At the "Enchanted Lake" site, we took our ...
Next Stop: Hawksbill Gap
Perseverance was on the move this past week after finishing up remote science activities at Enchanted Lake, an exposure of ...