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Blue Ripples on a Red Planet
Though Mars is the Red Planet, false-color images can help us learn about its weather and geology. This image shows a variety of wind-related features on the Red Planet near…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Measures Intriguing Carbon Signature on Mars
From NASA After analyzing powdered rock samples collected from the surface of Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover, scientists today announced that several of the samples are rich in a type…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Makes Surprising Discoveries
The preservation of organics inside ancient rocks – regardless of origin – at both Gale and Jezero Craters does mean that potential biosignatures (signs of life, whether past or present)…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock
From NASA NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock The drill hole from Perseverance’s second sample-collection attempt can be seen, in this composite of two images taken on Sept.…
Clays, Not Water, Are Likely Source of Mars ‘Lakes’
“In planetary science, we often are just inching our way closer to the truth,” Plaut said. “The original paper didn’t prove it was water, and these new papers don’t prove…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins Its First Science Campaign on Mars
The goal of the campaign is to establish what four locations in these units best tell the story of Jezero Crater’s early environment and geologic history. When the science team…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Shining Clouds on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. The image is made up of…
Salts Could Be Important Piece of Martian Organic Puzzle, NASA Scientists Find
“The fact that there’s organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old rocks, and we found it at the surface, is a very promising sign that we might be able to tap more…
NASA’s Mars Helicopter to Make First Flight Attempt Sunday
The Mars Helicopter is a high-risk, high-reward technology demonstration. If Ingenuity were to encounter difficulties during its 30-sol (Martian day) mission, it would not impact the science gathering of NASA’s…
NASA Invites Public to Take Flight With Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
NASA is targeting no earlier than Sunday, April 11, for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet. To mark a month of Ingenuity flights, the…
New Study Challenges Long-Held Theory of Fate of Mars’ Water
From NASA The new science results indicate that a large quantity of the Red Planet’s water is trapped in its crust rather than having escaped into space. Billions of years…
Watch Live: NASA Lands Perseverance Mars Rover
Mission Control Live: NASA Lands Perseverance Mars Rover (clean feed) Watch and listen as signals arrive at Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California from the Perseverance…
NASA’s Next Mars Rover Is Ready for the Most Precise Landing Yet
From NASA What to expect when the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover arrives at the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. With about 2.4 million miles (3.9 million kilometers) left to…
6 Things to Know About NASA’s Mars Helicopter on Its Way to Mars
From NASA Jan. 21, 2021 Ingenuity, a technology experiment, is preparing to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars on…
Field Geology on Mars Reveals Evidence of Megaflood
Guest “field geology rocks!” by David Middleton Field geology at Mars’ equator points to ancient megafloodBy Blaine Friedlander | November 18, 2020 Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale…
Water on ancient Mars
There’s a long-standing question in planetary science about the origin of water on Earth, Mars and other large bodies such as the moon. One hypothesis says that it came from…
Cliffs in Ancient Ice on Mars
Scientists have come to realize that, just below the surface, about one third of Mars is covered in ice. We study this ice to learn about Mars’ ancient climate and…
The Lakes of Mars
Guest “Let’s light this candle! Part Deux” by David Middleton NEWS 28 SEPTEMBER 2020Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientistsResearchers have detected a group of lakes hidden…
Snowball Mars?
Guest “have rock hammer, will travel” by David Middleton Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers SCIENCE, HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY Aug 3, 2020 | For more information, contact Sachintha…
Mars Perseverance Rover opens daily launch window on Thursday, July 30, at 7:50 a.m. EDT.
From NASA July 22, 2020 RELEASE 20-075 NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Passes Flight Readiness Review NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission cleared its Flight Readiness Review Wednesday, an important milestone on…
Jessica Watkins: First Geologist on Mars?
Guest “what a journey that would be” by David Middleton Hat tip to Mrs. Middleton… NEWS Q&A 19 MAY 2020The first footprints on Mars could belong to this geologistNASA astronaut…
Mars: Noachian River System May Have Flowed >100,000 Years
Noachian (4.1 – 3.7 billion years ago) The Noachian Period is named after Noachis Terra, an ancient highland region located between the huge Argyre and Hellas impact basins of the…
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