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Description This series of images shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm and, after waving the arm and running the drill a few times, finally detached the rock. The imagery showing the entire process was captured by the black-and-white hazard cameras […] The post NASA’s Curiosity Rover Frees Its Drill From a Rock appeared first on NASA …

New panoramic views from NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers reveal dramatically different Martian terrains shaped by ancient water and billions of years of geological change.

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Shenandoah Formation, Western Fan, Jezero Crater, Mars Sedimentary fans are key targets of exploration on Mars because they record the history of surface aqueous activity and habitability. The sedimentary fan extending from the Neretva Vallis breach of Jezero crater's western rim is one of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover's main exploration targets. Persevera…

Architecture of Fluvial and Deltaic Deposits Exposed Along the Eastern Edge of the Western Fan of Jezero Crater, Mars Mangold, N; Caravaca, G; Gupta, S; Williams, RME; Dromart, G; Gasnault, O; Le Mouélic, S; Paar, G; Bell, J; Beyssac, O; Carlot, N; Cousin, A; Dehouck, E; Horgan, B; Kah, LC; Lasue, J; Maurice, S; Núñez, JI; Shuster, D; Stack, KM; Weiss, BP; Wiens, RC Early observations from the Pe…

Magnetic Field Signatures of Craters on Mars Mittelholz, A; Steele, SC; Fu, RR; Johnson, CL; Lillis, RJ; Stucky de Quay, G Craters on Mars are a window into Mars' past and the time they were emplaced. Because the crust is heated and shocked during impact, craters can demagnetize or magnetize the crust depending on the presence or absence of a dynamo field at the time of impact. This concept has b…

The Mars Odyssey mission was the first to provide global maps showing the elemental composition of the Martian surface and how much water was present within the top 3 feet (1 meter) of the surface. Odyssey’s THEMIS camera has provided more than 1 million images that scientists use to study geologic features and identify potential […] The post Odyssey Celebrates 25 Years appeared first on NASA Sci…

A Mars 2020 Perseverance SuperCam Perspective on the Igneous Nature of the Máaz Formation at Jezero Crater and Link With Séítah, Mars The Máaz formation consists of the first lithologies in Jezero crater analyzed by the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. This formation, investigated from Sols (Martian days) 1 to 201 and from Sols 343 to 382, overlies the Séítah formation (previously described as an ol…

A mysterious cylindrical object photographed by NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars has sparked heated debates about its origin.

NASA launches twin spacecraft to solve the mystery of Mars’ lost atmosphere - Date: - March 14, 2026 - Source: - NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center - Summary: - Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a frozen desert. NASA’s twin-spacecraft …

Astrobiology Mars Analog Atacama Desert As Seen From Orbit A portion of the Atacama Desert along Peru’s southern Pacific coast, featuring barren plains, rocky cliffs, vast sand dunes, and fertile river valleys, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 265 miles above the South American nation. NASA uses Chile’s Atacama Desert as a premier Mars analog, employing the Atacama R…

In this age of Mars rovers, questions about the planet's ancient past have shifted. A growing body of evidence supports the idea that Mars was once warm and wet. Now researchers are focused on the timeline of the red planet's watery past. Research efforts all come down to the ultimate question regarding the planet: Did it ever host life? Powerful orbital cameras like NASA's HiRISE and the ESA's H…

When we think of ice on Mars, we typically think of the poles, where we can see it visibly through probes and even ground-based telescopes. But the poles are hard to access, and even more so given the restrictions on exploration there due to potential biological contamination. Scientists have long hoped to find water closer to the equator, making it more accessible to human explorers. There are p…

New research suggests that NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have detected life 50 years ago, but the data was misinterpreted, potentially changing our understanding of Mars' habitability forever.

When the rover now named Perseverance landed in Jezero crater in early 2021, scientists already knew they had picked an interesting place to scope out. From space, they could see what looked like a bathtub ring around the crater, indicating there could once have been water there. But there was some debate about what exactly that meant, and it’s taken almost five years to settle it. A new paper fr…

A recent discovery by NASA’s Curiosity rover suggests Mars has been hiding a watery secret all along.

The camera, originally designed to monitor Mars's weather, spotted something extraordinary, an unexpected crater.

Curiosity rover has uncovered something unexpected on Mars, hinting at a surprising twist in the planet's ancient history. What it found could change everything we thought we knew.

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, instrumental in Mars exploration, has lost contact with Earth, and the space agency is working to diagnose and resolve the issue.

Mars may not be as dead as we thought — new discovery leaves scientists speechless.

Along the southern rim of Mars’ Hellas basin is a large crater, about 75 miles wide (over 120 kilometers), called Barnard. In a new paper, researchers have mapped it and the surrounding area in high ... Read More