Mastcam will be busy in this plan, acquiring a large 70-frame L0 mosaic covering the entire crater to assess its morphology, as well as stereo imaging on the western rim where more dark rocks are ...

As Emma mentioned on Wednesday, our current drive direction contains a pair of craters, “Runyon Canyon” and the larger “Rustic Canyon” (about 20 meters or 66 feet in diameter). On Wednesday, we ...

Resurrected data from Galileo’s first flyby of Ganymede is yielding new insights about the moon’s environment — which is unlike any other in the solar system. Far across the solar system, from where ...

Recently, an international research team published a comprehensive review in the journal Reviews of Geophysics on our state of understanding of Earth’s “climate sensitivity,” a key measure of how much ...

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In the months since we flew for the first time, we have learned a great deal about operating a helicopter on Mars. In the months since we flew for the first time, we have learned a great deal about ...

In March, a NASA-led research team announced that Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland’s fastest-flowing and thinning glacier over the past two decades, is now flowing more slowly, thickening and advancing ...

Arctic winter warming events – winter days where temperatures peak above 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 10 degrees Celsius) – are a normal part of the climate over the ice-covered Arctic Ocean. But new ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune abruptly steer away from a likely death on the giant blue planet. The storm, which is wider than the ...