08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
... a pencil-thick sample of martian material from a rock at Jezero Crater. The rock sample was imaged by the rover's instruments and later confirmed by mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California after receiving...
22 March 2021
The first look at Ingenuity on Mars
... When NASA’s Mars 2020 mission successfully deployed the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet over a month ago, nestled ...drive of the landing site or up to one kilometer away—as the rover is able to travel about 100 metres a day – before Ingenuity is...
13 December 2015
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover observes sand dunes two stories tall
... to Mount Sharp, reaching the base in 2014. The rovers main mission objective is to now examine successively higher layers ... Camera (Mastcam), a wheel track is left by the Mars rover exposing underlying material in a shallow sand sheet. Image Credit: ...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
...to heaven” consists of a Mars orbiter, and a lander and rover that are expected to touch down on the martian surface sometime in ...the planet and will serve as a communication relay for the rover to send and receive information from Earth. It will also...
01 April 2019
First independent confirmation of methane on Mars
...size of bacteria. No one thinks it's because of the trash that martians have buried anyway. So, when the Curiosity rover detected a small burst of methane at a particular location within Gale Crater - a clay-laden depression suspected of being formed...
01 November 2021
Curiosity finds organic molecules in Mars sand dune
...add. Since its arrival on Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring the ancient environments in Gale Crater in search...found on Mars. To do this, rock samples collected by the rover are slowly cooked in one of its two ovens, that can heat...
