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NASA’s Curiosity Rover continued its investigation of Mars with a mix of scientific observations and geological analyses. As ...
Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: ...
The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged ...
"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...
Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 In today’s plan, we have a little bit of everything. With it ...
After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...
Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...
The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. As ...
Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.
The model Kite’s team built was unique in that it captured evolution of the Martian landscape and climate over an extremely ...
New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...