Meteorite impact provides a glimpse beneath Mars' surface
On 24 December 2021, NASA's InSight lander felt the ground shake. Its SEIS seismometer registered a marsquake of magnitude 4. ...
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Lumpy Bumpy: Sols 3635-3636
In today's plan, we got to exercise our combined APXS-MAHLI touch and go capability. Now that our days on Mars ...
NASA and ESA agree on next steps to return Mars samples to Earth
The next step in the unprecedented campaign to return scientifically selected samples from Mars was made on Oct. 19 with ...
Traces of ancient ocean discovered on Mars
A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars. The maps offer ...
Magma on Mars likely
Since 2018, when the NASA InSight Mission deployed the SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars, seismologists and geophysicists at ...
Spectral evolution of a dark asteroid surface after ten years of space weathering
When asteroid 596 Scheila collided with an object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter in December 2010, a ...
ANU scientists use deep planetary scan to confirm Martian core
Seismologists from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a new method to scan the deep interior of planets in ...
A close encounter with a mysterious moon
In 1877, the American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered two small moons circling the planet Mars, later named Phobos and Deimos ...
Meteorite that smashed into Mars shook planet
Scientists who study Mars on Thursday revealed the remarkable Christmas gift they received from the planet last year. On December ...
NASA generated $71 billion in economic impact in 2021
NASA's latest economic impact report released Thursday, boasting $71.2 billion in output during the fiscal year 2021. The report from ...