Dusty Flight 19 completed and looking ahead to Flight 20
Flight 19 was successfully completed on February 7, 2022, at 20:21 PST (Sol 345 of the Perseverance mission, 12:00 LMST ...
Tag: Jezero Crater
Ch'al-Type Rocks at Santa Cruz
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars' Jezero Crater called "Santa Cruz" on April 29, ...
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. ...
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 ...
NASA awards contract for first rocket to launch from another planet
NASA has started the early processes of constructing a $194 million small rocket that will launch from Mars, which will ...
NASA selects developer for rocket to retrieve first samples from Mars
NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a ...
Almost on the rove again
We'll soon be on the move again after shaking loose some pesky pebbles that became lodged in Perseverance's bit carousel. ...
Extremely harsh volcanic lake shows how life might have existed on Mars
A few specialist microbes survive conditions analogous to those of Mars' early history, reports a new publication in Frontiers in ...
Out of Pebble Purgatory
The final two pebbles hitching a ride aboard our rover's bit carousel are gone but not forgotten. I'll give you ...
Ejecting Mars' Pebbles
The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week's blog. Our first success: The ...