By identifying clouds in data collected by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the public can increase scientists’ understanding of the Red Planet’s atmosphere. | Continue reading
Tosol we uplinked a two-sol plan as Curiosity continues to navigate "Paraitepuy Pass." | Continue reading
Despite signs of wear, the intrepid spacecraft is about to start an exciting new chapter of its mission as it climbs a Martian mountain. | Continue reading
How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don’t— it chooses you. | Continue reading
As detailed in our last blog post, for the first time in our yearlong extended mission we had a loss of communications with Ingenuity from the downlink of May 3 (Sol 427) and May 4 (Sol 428). | Continue reading
Ingenuity continued its journey towards the river delta this weekend with Flight 24. This flight took place Sunday, April 3, and the data arrived back later that evening. | Continue reading
Using an onboard focusing process, the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) aboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity created this product by merging two to eight images previously taken by the MAHLI, located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm.Curiosity performed the merge on … | Continue reading
This image was taken by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3385 (2022-02-13 02:37:27 UTC). | Continue reading
NASA and ESA are working to plan ways to bring the first samples of Mars rocks and soil back to Earth for detail study. | Continue reading
Ingenuity flew for the 17th time at Mars on Sunday, Dec. 5. After the helicopter executed the planned 614-foot (187-meter) traverse to the northeast. | Continue reading
The spacecraft successfully cleared some dust off its solar panels, helping to raise its energy and delay when it will need to switch off its science instruments. | Continue reading
Flight 16 will be a shorter, 109-second flight. Ingenuity will climb up to 33 feet, glide over the "Raised Ridges" at 3 mph, then land near the edge of "South Séítah," covering a distance of 380 feet. | Continue reading
With conjunction over and our first flight at 2,700 RPM behind us, Ingenuity is ready to begin the journey back to the Wright Brothers Field at the Octavia E. Butler landing site, before venturing beyond. | Continue reading
Members of the public can now help teach an artificial intelligence algorithm to recognize scientific features in images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover. | Continue reading
In the months since we flew for the first time, we have learned a great deal about operating a helicopter on Mars. | Continue reading
Ingenuity’s next flight will be at a lower altitude and focus on one interesting ridgeline of rock outcrops in the “South Seítah” region. | Continue reading
NASA’s real-time portal for Mars exploration, featuring the latest news, images, and discoveries from the Red Planet. | Continue reading
The rover continues to explore Jezero Crater while the team assesses today’s activities. | Continue reading
A few sols ago Perseverance performed the first science abrasion on the target Guillaumes. All reveled in the engineering success but what was revealed below the surface of the rock after the dust was cleared away surprised us. | Continue reading
The agency’s newest rover is trekking across the Martian landscape using a newly enhanced auto-navigation system. | Continue reading
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will take on its biggest challenge yet, with a high-speed flight across unfriendly terrain. | Continue reading
As of June 21, 2021, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has successfully flown its 8th flight, traveling about 525 feet (160 meters) south-southeast from Airfield D to the new Airfield E! | Continue reading
On the 91st Martian day, or sol, of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its sixth flight. | Continue reading
Around the time of our first flight, we talked a lot about having our “Wright brothers moment” at Mars. | Continue reading
Before each of Ingenuity’s test flights, we upload instructions that describe precisely what the flight should look like. But when it comes time to fly, the helicopter is on its own and relies on a set of flight control algorithms that we developed here o | Continue reading
Data received from the Mars Ingenuity helicopter on Thursday morning shows the helicopter did not execute its planned fourth flight as scheduled. | Continue reading
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is visible in the upper left corner of this image the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took during its third flight, on April 25, 2021. The helicopter was flying at an altitude of 16 feet (5 meters) and roughly 279 feet (85 meters) from the rover … | Continue reading
The milestone, which the MOXIE instrument achieved by converting carbon dioxide into oxygen, points the way to future human exploration of the Red Planet. | Continue reading
At 12:31 a.m. PDT on Monday, April 19, 2021, the Ingenuity helicopter team is going to attempt the first ever powered, controlled flight on another planet. We are optimistic that the helicopter will be able to take off from the Martian surface at this tim | Continue reading
Today, April 16, on the 154th anniversary of Wilbur Wright’s birth, the Ingenuity flight team received information that the helicopter was able to complete a rapid spin test. | Continue reading
The Mars Helicopter is a technology demonstration to test powered flight on another planet for the first time. | Continue reading
NASA’s newest rover recorded audio of itself crunching over the surface of the Red Planet, adding a whole new dimension to Mars exploration. | Continue reading
The first trek of the agency’s largest, most advanced rover yet on the Red Planet marks a major milestone before science operations get under way. | Continue reading
The award moves NASA and ESA a step closer to realizing Mars Sample Return, an ambitious planetary exploration program that will build upon decades of science, knowledge, and experience. | Continue reading
This is the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The panorama was stitched together on Earth from 142 individual images taken on Sol 3, the third Martian day of the mission (Feb. 21, 2021). | Continue reading
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will look for signs of past microbial life, cache rock and soil samples, and prepare for future human exploration. | Continue reading
Raw images of Mars taken by the Perseverance rover at Jezero Crater. | Continue reading
This web experience lets you hear what a person might sound like on the Red Planet. You can also hear sounds captured by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover. | Continue reading
Gallery of audio clips captured by the Mars Perseverance rover. | Continue reading
The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment is better known as MOXIE. NASA is preparing for human exploration of Mars, and MOXIE will demonstrate a way that future explorers might produce oxygen from the Martian atmosphere for propellant and for breathing. | Continue reading
The six-wheeled robot’s latest data since touching down yesterday include a hi-res image captured as the rover’s jetpack lowered it to the ground. | Continue reading
Put yourself on Mars and strike a pose with the Perseverance rover, or next to the rocket. Just upload your favorite picture, choose a background and download your new image. | Continue reading
The heat probe hasn’t been able to gain the friction it needs to dig, but the mission has been granted an extension to carry on with its other science. | Continue reading
On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. | Continue reading
Gallery of Perseverance resources, including print products, 3D models, fact sheets and other downloads. | Continue reading
New evidence suggests salty, shallow ponds once dotted a Martian crater — a sign of the planet's drying climate. | Continue reading