NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay Cache
The rover recently drilled two samples, and both showed the highest levels of clay ever found during the mission.
The rover recently drilled two samples, and both showed the highest levels of clay ever found during the mission.
Flight tests of the Mars 2020 Lander Vision System, which will help guide NASA's next Mars mission to a safe touchdown on the Red Planet, are taking place in the California desert.
NASA's Mars 2020 spacecraft has completed tests that are the best Earthly approximations what the spacecraft will endure duriAV ng launch and interplanetary cruise.
New observations reveal that water in comets and Earth's oceans may share common composition, suggesting more comets than previously thought could have delivered water to Earth.
The prestigious prize has been given to Caltech's Ed Stone, former director of JPL and the long-time project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission.
From now till Sept. 30, the public can submit names to be etched on microchips that will fly on the Mars 2020 rover and receive a souvenir boarding pass.
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection of a planetary magnetic that changes over time, a phenomenon called secular variation.