Mars
Perseverance Watches Carefully as Ingenuity Lifts Off for its 47th Flight
In some of the best footage yet, the Perseverance rover has taken new video of the Ingenuity helicopter taking off…
Mars Has Bizarre “Swiss Cheese” Terrain. You can Thank Water, Carbon Dioxide and 500,000 years of Climate History for That
Seen from space, regions of Mars around the south pole have a bizarre, pitted "Swiss cheese" appearance. These formations come…
Curiosity Sees Spectacular Crepuscular Rays in Martian Clouds
NASA's Curiosity Rover usually looks down at the ground, studying nearby rocks and craters. But sometimes, it looks up and…
China’s Rover Used Radar to Look Deep Beneath the Surface of Mars. What Did it Find?
The ongoing effort to under Martian geology and the planet's history continues. A recent paper from a scientific team in…
Our Best Instruments Couldn’t Find Life on Mars
The planet Mars is arguably the most extensively studied planetary body in the entire Solar System, which began with telescopic…
How are Mars Rocks Getting “Shocked” by Meteorite Impacts?
A new NASA study shows how samples obtained by Perseverance could have been shaped by asteroid impacts when Mars was…
Dust Storms on Mars Generate Static Electricity. What Does This Do to Its Surface?
A new study shows how electrical discharges caused by Martian storms drives some major chemical processes on the planet's surface.
Follow Perseverance on Its Mars Journey With This Two-Year Timelapse
Hard to believe, but the Perseverance Rover has begun its third year exploring Mars. On Feb. 18, 2021, Perseverance rover…
Ingenuity is Doing Surprisingly Well
After months of extreme cold, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter appears to be back in working order.
Perseverance is Building Up a Big Collection of Mars Samples
NASA's Perseverance Rover has reached another milestone. It's finished caching its samples for a potential return to Earth. The sample…