Since then, the rover has cruised 1,493 feet (455 meters) away to a craggy ridge the mission team calls "Citadelle" (French for "castle"), which seems to offer greener sampling pastures.
"The ridge is capped with a layer of rock that appears to resist wind erosion, a sign that it's more likely to hold up during drilling," officials with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, which manages Perseverance's mission, wrote in an update Thursday (Aug. 26).
You can watch 'Mars Calling,' a new Red Planet documentary, for free now on Magellan TV | Space
Humanity's efforts to settle the Red Planet come into focus in a new documentary, " Mars Calling ," streaming now to explore how we're doing so far at Mars and where we'll go next.
If you act fast, Space.com fans can watch the documentary for free. MagellanTV will make the film exclusively available until Sept. 6, company representatives told Space.com.
Mars Exploration Celebration Blasts Off This Weekend in Mars | State | theprogressnews.com
BUTLER COUNTY, Pa., Aug. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Borough of Mars, Pennsylvania, is hosting a 'free' two-day STEAM education festival called the Mars Exploration Celebration on August 27-28, 2021.
"Mars Exploration Celebration provides hands-on and minds-on activities with the goal to make STEAM education not only fun but to empower our youth to become curious learners," said Missy Gralish , member of Mars New Year Board of Directors.
China celebrates its first Mars mission on new gold and silver coins | Space
China is celebrating its first successful mission to orbit and land on Mars with a new set of gold and silver commemorative coins.
The People's Bank of China announced it will issue the limited edition Tianwen-1 coins on Monday (Aug 30), three months after China's first Mars rover, Zhurong , began exploring the Red Planet. The three coins will each depict a different aspect of the history-making mission.
NASA Will be Sending two More Missions to Mars in 2024, Costing Just $80 Million - Universe Today
One of the biggest ongoing changes in space exploration is the introduction of commercial methods into the field. Commercial launch providers like RocketLab and SpaceX have fundamentally changed the way the industry does business.
One of a trio of missions that will attempt to lower a mission's cost to launch by a factor of 10 is led by researchers at UC Berkeley .
China had a huge victory and the Mars Rover did wonders
China’s Mars Rover has completed its exploration and detection operations as planned. China quoted the National Space Administration (CNSA) as having worked on the surface of Mars for 90 days, or about 92 days on Earth, until August 15, when all scientific payloads began to work on
China is now the second country after the United States to operate a rover on the Red Planet. On May 15, Surang – named after the mythical fire god of China – touched its pre-selected landing area in the southern part of Utopia Planetia.
Best time for humans to travel to Mars is when the sun is roaring, scientists say - CNET
A new study has some suggestions for dealing with the safety issues, and it could partly come down to strategically picking the best time to travel.
The paper calls out two main types of hazardous particle radiation: solar energetic particles (SEP) from our sun and galactic cosmic rays (GCR) from outside the solar system.
NASA Mars smallsat mission passes review - SpaceNews
WASHINGTON — A smallsat Mars mission that had to revise its plans after it lost its initial ride has won NASA approval to move into full-scale development.
NASA announced Aug. 20 that the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) had passed an agency review called Key Decision Point C, allowing it to move into its final design and construction of its instruments.
Manned Mars mission viable if it doesn't exceed four years, concludes international research team
In a new article published in the peer-reviewed journal Space Weather, an international team of space scientists, including researchers from UCLA, answers those two questions with a "no" and a "yes."
That is, humans should be able to safely travel to and from Mars, provided that the spacecraft has sufficient shielding and the round trip is shorter than approximately four years.
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Voila – a window into this rock we call "Rochette." I ground away its outer surface to see what it's like inside. I… https://t.co/5wnfGJecEt NASAPersevere (from Jezero Crater, Mars) Sat Aug 28 00:17:48 +0000 2021
I'm trying to get to know rocks on a deeper level. As I get ready to scour a small hole in my new target rock, get… https://t.co/yKk30C9d23 NASAPersevere (from Jezero Crater, Mars) Fri Aug 27 20:08:53 +0000 2021
In its search for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, @NASAPersevere is once again preparing to collect the fi… https://t.co/Iu9cjGHQD9 NASAAstrobio (from Around the globe...and beyond!) Fri Aug 27 19:50:53 +0000 2021
The rocks on top of this ridge have been sitting here getting sandblasted by Mars winds for eons. This one looks li… https://t.co/D2zCY1Uquz NASAPersevere (from Jezero Crater, Mars) Thu Aug 26 18:43:57 +0000 2021
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