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Jason Davis • October 08, 2018
The spacecraft used its ultraviolet spectrograph imager for the job, and one frame shows Mars in the background.
Bruce Betts • October 02, 2018 • 2
A collection of before and after slider images showing how views of planets in our solar system have changed over the years since NASA was created.
Emily Lakdawalla • September 06, 2018
Heedless of the (now-dissipating) dust storm, Curiosity has achieved its first successful drill into rocks that form the Vera Rubin ridge, and is hopefully on the way to a second. It took three attempts for Curiosity to find a soft enough spot, with Voyageurs and Ailsa Craig being too tough, but Stoer proved obligingly soft on sol 2136.
Jason Davis • August 21, 2018 • 4
It was a signal from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, not Opportunity, that showed up on a Deep Space Network dashboard last week.
Casey Dreier • August 16, 2018 • 5
Though progress is being made on Mars Sample Return, a new report from the National Academies recommends NASA have a long-term plan for robotic Mars exploration, and work to ensure communications infrastructure is maintained at the Red Planet. These recommendations largely align with those made by The Planetary Society in a report released in 2017.
Emily Lakdawalla • July 30, 2018 • 4
What does it mean that the Mars rover Curiosity found organics in Martian rocks? Emily Lakdawalla translates the science.
Emily Lakdawalla • July 25, 2018 • 10
A radar instrument on one of the oldest operational Mars orbiters has discovered possible evidence of present-day liquid water on Mars.
Bruce Betts • July 23, 2018
Later this week, Mars will be closer and brighter than it has been since 2003. And about half the Earth will see a lunar eclipse!
Linda Martel • July 10, 2018 • 1
Something new and wonderful appeared in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database—an entire listing of meteorites found on Mars by robotic rovers and their science teams from the years 2005–2017.
Jonathon Hill • July 06, 2018
What happens when you print a map of Mars the size of a basketball court?
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