A Whole New World – Sols 3578-3579
After a successful 13 meter weekend drive, Curiosity finds itself in the middle of "Marker Band" valley. The underlaying bedrock ...
Tag: Mars
A vast and mysterious valley system in the southern Martian highlands
These images, acquired using with DLR High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), reveal a chaotic region on our neighbouring planet. It ...
Perseverance Rover team's first results
Two papers recently released in the scholarly journal Science by Farley et al. and Liu et al., which describe recent ...
Everything is Dust in the Wind
Well, not quite. But for scientists like me, who study atmospheric and aeolian (wind-driven) processes, wind-blown dust is extremely important ...
A World of Firsts
The Mars 2020 Mission is pushing the boundaries of what is possible on Mars. The most incredible part of working ...
Perseverance Makes New Discoveries in Mars' Jezero Crater
Scientists got a surprise when NASA's Perseverance Mars rover began examining rocks on the floor of Jezero Crater in spring ...
The sands of Mars are green as well as red, rover Perseverance discovers
The accepted view of Mars is red rocks and craters as far as the eye can see. That's much what ...
Radar images from Perseverance reveal underground surprises
After a tantalizing year-and-a-half wait since the Mars Perseverance Rover touched down on our nearest planetary neighbor, new data is ...
New research sheds light on when Mars may have had water
Scientists on NASA's Perseverance mission made a surprising discovery about the composition of rock in Jezero Crater, one that will ...
Curiosity Versus the Sand Again: Sols 3566-3567
The "road" through Paraitepuy pass continues to challenge our intrepid Curiosity rover. We attempted to cross another large sand ripple ...