NASA awards contract for Mars Sample Return systems by Ensign November 27, 2022 0 NASA has awarded a contract to Honeybee Robotics LLC of Longmont, Colorado, for the Mars Sample Return (MSR) - Capture, ...
NASA's Europa Clipper gets its wheels for traveling in deep space by Ensign November 24, 2022 0 The enormous spacecraft that will head to Jupiter's moon Europa uses four large reaction wheels to help keep it oriented. ...
A picture is worth a thousand words by Ensign November 24, 2022 0 From the image Perseverance recently took at Yori Pass, we can see that there are gray rocks scattered on top ...
Thanksgiving Plan Part Two – Sols 3665-3666 by Ensign November 23, 2022 0 Thanksgiving plan part two would of course include all the traditional pleasures we know - if you are in the ...
Reading the ripples at observation mountain by Ensign November 23, 2022 0 After spending over 600 sols (days on Mars) exploring the diverse geologic environment of Jezero Crater, collecting drilled rock cores ...
An early start to a long weekend – Sols 3660-3664 by Ensign November 23, 2022 0 On a usual week of Curiosity operations, Friday plans take the longest since they span the whole weekend. This rare ...
The first life in our solar system may have been on Mars by Ensign November 20, 2022 0 When Mars was a young planet, it was bombarded by ice asteroids delivering water and organic molecules necessary for life ...
Mars was covered by 300 meter deep oceans by Ensign November 18, 2022 0 Mars is called the red planet. But once, it was actually blue and covered in water, bringing us closer to ...
Perseverance investigates intriguing Martian bedrock by Ensign November 18, 2022 0 NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has begun exploring an area the science team calls "Yori Pass" near the base of Jezero ...
Space exploration goes underground by Ensign November 17, 2022 0 Is there life in Martian caves? It's a good question, but it's not the right question-yet. An international collaboration of ...