Three years of Marsquake measurements
The InSight mission on Mars is running out of power and most of its functions could be shut down in ...
Tag: Red Planet
The Aonia Terra region of Mars in colour
Mars, Earth's neighbouring planet, is not particularly known for its colourful appearance. It is usually thought of as an orange-brown ...
How Perseverance averts collisions and zaps
Perseverance has a number of moving parts, including the robotic arm, drill, mast, instrument covers, high gain antenna, and mobility ...
Mars sleeps with one eye open
This scarred and colourful (by martian standards!) landscape shows part of Aonia Terra, an upland region in the southern highlands ...
Keeping Our Sense of Direction: Dealing With a Dead Sensor
As the season has turned to winter in Jezero Crater, conditions have become increasingly challenging for Ingenuity, which was designed ...
Bacterial cellulose enables microbial life on Mars
An international research team including the University of Gottingen has investigated the chances of survival of kombucha cultures under Mars-like ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...