Dust bedevils Perseverance with damaging winds
Scientists working on the Perseverance Mars 2020 rover mission have uncovered new insights about dust devils on the Red Planet, ...
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Searching for buried treasure on Mars with RIMFAX
What do the Perseverance rover and Superman have in common? They both can "see" through solid rock! Superman has X-ray ...
Perseverance marks 1 Martian Year at Jezero
Perseverance and the team recently celebrated one Martian year (668 sols or 687 Earth days) on the Red Planet while ...
NASA launches Mars Sample Receiving Project Office at Johnson
NASA announced Thursday its new Mars Sample Receiving Project office, responsible for receiving and curating the first samples returned from ...
Chinese, European Mars probes help examine atmosphere near sun
In an "almost-out-of-service" period in 2021, China's Tianwen-1 orbiter, along with Mars Express of the European Space Agency, helped solar ...
Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds
The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical ...
Christmas craterscape
This beautifully crisp icy scene with a swirling ribbon of rusty red and white striped terrain connecting two large craters ...
InSight goes silent as Martian dust and cold ends mission
The InSight Mars mission is history. On 20 December 2022, NASA declared the mission over. The two attempts from Mission ...
No oxygen required to make these minerals on Mars
When NASA's Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters on Mars in 2014, the ...
NASA explores a winter wonderland on Mars
When winter comes to Mars, the surface is transformed into a truly otherworldly holiday scene. Snow, ice, and frost accompany ...