NASA’s Perseverance Captures ‘Googly Eye’ During Solar Eclipse – NASA

NASA’s Perseverance Captures ‘Googly Eye’ During Solar Eclipse – NASA

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the silhouette of the Martian moon Phobos as it passed in front of the Sun on Sept. 30, 2024. The video shows the transit speeded up by four times, followed by the eclipse in real time. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS The tiny, potato-shaped moon Phobos, one of two Martian moons, cast a silhouette as … Read more

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Looks Back While Climbing Slippery Slope – NASA

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Looks Back While Climbing Slippery Slope – NASA

On its way up the side of Jezero Crater, the agency’s latest Red Planet off-roader peers all the way back to its landing site and scopes the path ahead.   NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is negotiating a steeply sloping route up Jezero Crater’s western wall with the aim of cresting the rim in early December. … Read more

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock – NASA

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock – NASA

The six-wheeled geologist found a fascinating rock that has some indications it may have hosted microbial life billions of years ago, but further research is needed. A vein-filled rock is catching the eye of the science team of NASA’s Perseverance rover. Nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” by the team, the arrowhead-shaped rock contains fascinating traits that may … Read more

Detective Work Enables Perseverance Team to Revive SHERLOC Instrument – NASA

Detective Work Enables Perseverance Team to Revive SHERLOC Instrument – NASA

After six months of effort, an instrument that helps the Mars rover look for potential signs of ancient microbial life has come back online. The SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has analyzed a rock target with its spectrometer and camera for the … Read more

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye … for Now – NASA

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye … for Now – NASA

The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission — and to prepare the first aircraft on another world for its new role. Engineers working on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in … Read more

Rock Sampled by NASA’s Perseverance Embodies Why Rover Came to Mars – NASA

Rock Sampled by NASA’s Perseverance Embodies Why Rover Came to Mars – NASA

The 24th sample taken by the six-wheeled scientist offers new clues about Jezero Crater and the lake it may have once held. Analysis by instruments aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate that the latest rock core taken by the rover was awash in water for an extended period of time in the distant past, perhaps … Read more

Team Assessing SHERLOC Instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Rover – NASA

Team Assessing SHERLOC Instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Rover – NASA

Engineers are working to stabilize a dust cover on one of the science instrument’s cameras. Data and imagery from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate one of two covers that keep dust from accumulating on the optics of the SHERLOC instrument remains partially open. In this position, the cover interferes with science data collection operations. Mounted … Read more

NASA Uses Two Worlds to Test Future Mars Helicopter Designs – NASA

NASA Uses Two Worlds to Test Future Mars Helicopter Designs – NASA

This video combines two perspectives of the 59th flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. Video on the left was captured by the Mastcam-Z on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover; the black-and-white video on the right was taken by Ingenuity’s downward-pointing Navcam. The flight occurred Sept 16. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Engineers will go beyond the ends of the Earth … Read more

NASA’s Mars Fleet Will Still Conduct Science While Lying Low – NASA

NASA’s Mars Fleet Will Still Conduct Science While Lying Low – NASA

Rovers and orbiters will continue collecting limited data during a two-week communications pause due to the position of Earth, the Sun, and the Red Planet. NASA will hold off sending commands to its Mars fleet for two weeks, from Nov. 11 to 25, while Earth and the Red Planet are on opposite sides of the … Read more