NASA awards contract for Mars Sample Return systems
NASA has awarded a contract to Honeybee Robotics LLC of Longmont, Colorado, for the Mars Sample Return (MSR) - Capture, ...
Tag: Mars
NASA's Europa Clipper gets its wheels for traveling in deep space
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Is there life in Martian caves? It's a good question, but it's not the right question-yet. An international collaboration of ...