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…
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…
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…
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)…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…