Mars May Be Emerging From an Ice Age
According to the researchers, during a Martian ice age, polar warming drives water vapor from polar ice into the atmosphere. The water comes back to ground at lower latitudes as…
Mars Global Surveyor: Technology – NASA Science
Early in the mission, Mars Global Surveyor used small thrusters to adjust the reaction wheels and keep the spacecraft from drifting off course or off balance. With the angular momentum…
Sols 2247-2249: What a Week on Mars
But Curiosity was busy too! This week, and more specifically in this plan, we wrapped up the Highfield drill site campaign. I was on shift as Surface Properties Scientist (SPS)…
NASA’s Mars helicopter says goodbye: Check Top 5 videos to relive its history
The Nationwide Aeronautics and Area Administration or NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has despatched its remaining message to Earth and can now function a stationary data-gathering unit on the crimson planet’s…
3 BRILLIANT MINUTES: Revisiting Mars – WBAY
3 BRILLIANT MINUTES: Revisiting Mars WBAY
Sol 3060: The Vastness of Time
Today, Curiosity is continuing our drill campaign at Nontron and preparing SAM to study the sample later this week. While that’s ongoing, Mastcam will take a sure-to-be-spectacular 360° mosaic and…
Sol 1979: Mars Strikes Back
It is an exciting time for the Curiosity team. Although the drill was able to create a hole, Mars stubbornly refused to let the drill reach a depth where a…
Sol 690 Update on Curiosity from USGS Scientist Ryan Anderson: The First Billion Years
6 min learn NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Staff Says Goodbye … for Now The ultimate downlink shift by the Ingenuity staff was a time to replicate on a extremely profitable…
Sol 601 Update On Curiosity From USGS Scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Closest Approach
On April 14th, Mars made its closest approach to Earth this year. In addition, by chance, Earth’s moon is totally eclipsed on the same night, very close in the sky…
Mars Mission Timeline
Entry, Descent, and Landing – often referred to as “EDL” – is the shortest and most intense phase of a rover mission. It begins when the spacecraft reaches the top…