New technique to determine age will open new era of planetary science
The coming decade is expected to bring a veritable bonanza for the science of planets: space missions are scheduled to ...
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Balancing risk and reward in planetary exploration
NASA's Mars rovers strive for groundbreaking scientific discoveries as they traverse the Martian landscape. At the same time, the crews ...
Driving on the Sidewalk, MARDI-Style: Sols 3630-3632
We continue our drive through "Marker Band valley", an area of high interest scientifically, due to strong evidence of sulfates ...
NASA to increase Artemis fleet, orders 3 more crew capsules
NASA is furthering its plans to set up a space station on the moon and send the first astronauts to ...
A hydrogen-rich first atmosphere for Mars inferred from clays on its surface
According to new research, Mars may have been born a blue and water-covered world, long before the Earth had even ...
Why NASA is trying to crash land on Mars
Like a car's crumple zone, the experimental SHIELD lander is designed to absorb a hard impact. NASA has successfully touched ...
Curiosity reaches long-awaited salty region on Martian mountainside
After journeying this summer through a narrow, sand-lined pass, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in the "sulfate-bearing unit," a ...
Life may have thrived on early Mars, until it drove climate change that caused its demise
If there ever was life on Mars - and that's a huge "if" - conditions during the planet's infancy most ...
Things that go bump in the night on Mars!
You stand in Jezero crater, Mars, at a minute to midnight. By the light of the stars and Mars's two ...
Sols 3621-3622: Planetary Power Puzzle
This morning's planning kicked off with great news! Our Sol 3620 SAM data of the Canaima drill sample was interesting ...