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Category Archives: Reports
Curiosity: Fore and aft
Sol 2359, March 27, 2019. Curiosity has driven about 29 meters (95 feet) in a northeast direction across the clay-bearing unit. The south side of Vera Rubin Ridge forms the skyline on the left side of the rover, and there’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Vera Rubin Ridge
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THEMIS: Acidalia Planitia in false color
THEMIS Image of the Day, March 27, 2019. This false-color VIS image is located in central Acidalia Planitia. The crater just off the edge at the bottom part of the image is Bonestell Crater. The crater towards the top of … Continue reading
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Tagged Acidalia Planitia, Arizona State University, ASU, basaltic sand, Bonestell Crater, false color, Mars Odyssey, NASA, THEMIS, THEMIS Image of the Day, Thermal Emission Imaging System
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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia
Daily Elysium charts and data (temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure) here.
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Tagged Curiosity, dust storms, Elysium Planitia, Gale Crater, global dust storms, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars Science Laboratory, MSL, NASA, temperature, Temperature and Wind for InSight, TWINS, weather
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Can organisms survive on Mars, and can we identify them?
Earth is a very special planet. It is the only celestial body in the Solar System on which we know life exists. Could there be life on other planets or moons? Mars is always the first to be mentioned in … Continue reading
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Tagged astrobiology, BIOlogy and Mars EXperiment, BIOMEX, DLR, German Aerospace Center, International Space Station, ISS, life, microbial life
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Curiosity update: Hopping from outcrop to outcrop
Sols 2359-60, March 25, 2019, update by MSL scientist Vivian Sun: At the start of Sol 2359, Curiosity found herself parked in front of some layered bedrock outcrops (see above image), a rarity in the rubbly landscapes that we’ve explored … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Goosander, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rutherglen, Woodland Bay
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HiRISE: Layered bedrock to the northwest of Hellas Planitia
Layered bedrock to the northwest of Hellas Planitia. There are some very nice geologic contacts in this region. HiRISE Picture of the Day archive [More at links]
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Tagged bedrock, Hellas Planitia, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiPOD, HiRISE, HiRISE Picture of the Day, layered deposits, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, University of Arizona
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ExoMars: Mars calling
An exciting new competition is giving citizens of planet Earth the opportunity to get their voices to Mars in the next phase of the ExoMars programme. The ExoMars rover and platform will launch to the Red Planet in 2020. The … Continue reading
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Tagged ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, ExoMars 2020, ExoMars 2020 rover, Kazachok, Oxia Planum, Rosalind Franklin, Roscosmos
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THEMIS: Elysium Planitia in false color
THEMIS Image of the Day, March 26, 2019. Today’s false-color VIS image is located in Elysium Planitia. The linear depressions at the top of the image are created by tectonic faults, where the center block of material has dropped downward … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona State University, ASU, Elysium Planitia, false color, graben, lava flows, Mars Odyssey, NASA, tectonics, THEMIS, THEMIS Image of the Day, Thermal Emission Imaging System, volcanics
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Asteroid impacts+hydrogen = recipe for Mars life
A new study reveals asteroid impacts on ancient Mars could have produced key ingredients for life if the Martian atmosphere was rich in hydrogen. An early hydrogen-rich atmosphere on Mars could also explain how the planet remained habitable after its … Continue reading
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Tagged asteroid belt, asteroid impacts, bolide impacts, giant impacts, hydrogen, impacts, life, nitrates, nitrites, nitrogen
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Curosity: Pebbles on the ground
Sol 2357, March 24, 2019. On its drive to the east-northeast on this sol, Curiosity took snapshots of the ground passing beneath using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI). The image combines three MAHLI frames. It reveals a patch of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stonebriggs
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