In this artist’s impression of the breadcrumb scenario, autonomous rovers can be seen exploring a lava tube after being deployed by a mother rover that…
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Starcrete sample. Researchers have found that mixing simulated Mars dust with ordinary potato starch creates a concrete-like material called StarCrete. In testing, StarCrete showed compressive…
A Relict Glacier near Mars’ Equator. (NASA MRO HiRISE and CRISM false color composite). Credit: Pascal Lee The preservation of water ice at shallow depths…
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft passes above Mars’ south pole in this artist’s concept illustration. The spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since October 24, 2001. Credit:…
Artist’s concept of the Mars Pathfinder mission, including the Carl Sagan Memorial Science Station and the six-wheeled rover, Sojourner. Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech It started…
Sand dunes of many shapes and sizes are common on Mars. In this example, the dunes are almost perfectly circular, which is unusual. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University…
Looking Back at Perseverance’s Second Science Campaign: This image of the floor of Jezero Crater was taken by one of the Navcam imagers aboard NASA’s…
Tissint meteorite. Credit: Kurt Kracher, Natural History Museum Vienna Tissint, a Martian meteorite that plummeted to Earth and crash-landed in Morocco over 11 years ago,…
Curiosity’s 360-Degree View of ‘Marker Band Valley’: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam to capture this 360-degree panorama of “Marker Band Valley” on Dec.…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this image of rhythmic rock layers with a repeating pattern of spacing and thickness. The pattern might have been caused…
Artist concept of Demonstration for Rocket to Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) spacecraft, which will demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine. Nuclear thermal propulsion technology could…
Perseverance’s Three Forks Sample Depot Selfie: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with several of the 10 sample tubes it deposited at a sample…
This image of Mariner 4 superimposed on an image of Mars was used to advertise the Mariner 4 mission. Credit: NASA Other than Earth, no…
The GIF illustrates NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover utilizing a regolith sampling bit at the end of its robotic arm to collect rock and dust samples,…
Dust devils on Mars are small whirlwinds of dust that occur when the sun heats the surface of the planet, causing the air to rise…
Representation of the meteorite impact of December 24, 2021 (S1094b) on the planet Mars and the propagation of surface waves to the SEIS seismometer of…
The biggest earthquake ever recorded on Mars has uncovered layers in its crust that could signify a previous collision with a large object, such as…
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s InSight lander with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface. InSight’s package of weather sensors, called the Auxiliary Payload Subsystem…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Martian Surface for Possible Return to Earth
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Martian Surface for Possible Return to Earth
NASA’s Perseverance rover deposited the first of several samples onto the Martian surface on December 21, 2022, the 653rd Martian day, or sol, of the…
The location where NASA’s Perseverance will begin depositing its first cache of samples is shown in this image taken by the Mars rover on December…