Beautiful Weekend Views – Sols 3493-3495
We're heading into a packed weekend, after a successful drive putting us in a great location with some really beautiful ...
Tag: Mars
Mars is all shook up
Recently, 47 new 'marsquakes' (that is, quakes on Mars) have been detected by Professor Hrvoje Tkalcic from the Australian National ...
Perseverance Has a Pet Rock!
How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don't- it chooses you. For the past 4 months, Perseverance ...
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft resumes science and operations, exits safe mode
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission returned to normal science and relay operations on May 28, 2022, ...
Perseverance studies the devil winds of Jezero Crater
During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust ...
Perseverance now selects its own targets to zap
Perseverance has continued into Hawksbill Gap, making remote sensing observations of small portions of outcropping rock layers in search of ...
A steep but short climb: Sols 3491-3492
Today in tactical planning I was staffed as Surface Properties Scientist, which means I get to put my geology field ...
Southern Launch receives further Government funding
Australian spaceport and space mission provider, Southern Launch, has been awarded an Australian Space Agency Moon to Mars Grant for ...
Why Did Mars Dry Out? New Study Points To Unusual Answers
Mars once ran red with rivers. The telltale tracks of past rivers, streams and lakes are visible today all over ...
Up, Up and Away – Sols 3487-3490
Our intrepid rover engineers again successfully navigated Curiosity a little higher up Mount Sharp (~5 m) and ~40 m on ...