Eyeing Kukenan – Sols 3519-3524
Curiosity is continuing to proceed through our pre-planned checklist of activities that we've made for drill campaigns. The team is ...
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My Favorite Martian Image: 'Enchanted' Rocks at Jezero Crater
Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance's Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she's looking for. Ask ...
Digging into our new drill hole: Sols 3517-3518
After a successful drilling of Avanavero, the team is ready to dig even deeper into our investigation of this new ...
Help NASA scientists find clouds on Mars
NASA scientists hope to solve a fundamental mystery about Mars' atmosphere, and you can help. They've organized a project called ...
NASA Experiment Suggests Need to Dig Deep for Evidence of Life on Mars
According to a new NASA laboratory experiment, rovers may have to dig about 6.6 feet (two meters) or more under ...
NASA's Curiosity takes inventory of key life ingredient on Mars
Scientists using data from NASA's Curiosity rover measured the total organic carbon - a key component in the molecules of ...
Curiosity latest drilling attempt a success – Sols 3514-3516
The MSL team is very happy this week, because our first drill attempt since last November was successful! This Front ...
Drilling Again – Sols 3512-3513
Today was an exciting day of planning (and not just because of the thunderstorms here in southern California!). We planned ...
NASA Mars Orbiter Releasing One of Its Last Rainbow-Colored Maps
Scientists are about to get a new look at Mars, thanks to a multicolored 5.6-gigapixel map. Covering 86% of the ...
On the Cusp of Drilling: Sol 3511
It has been almost 8 months to the day since Curiosity powered up its drill and extracted tailings from a ...