As dust collects on the solar panels and winter comes to Elysium Planitia, the team is following a plan to reduce science operations in order to keep the lander safe.
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NASA’s InSight Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Mars Science
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The mission’s team has chosen to operate its seismometer longer than previously planned, although the lander will run out...
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Reaches a Total of 30 Minutes Aloft
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With its recent 17th flight, the Red Planet rotorcraft reaches an airborne milestone the team never considered achievable. Its...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock
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Perseverance will obtain additional imagery of the sample tube before potentially completing the process of collecting its first scientifically-selected...
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NASA’s Angie Jackman Works to Develop Rocket That Will Bring Mars Samples to Earth
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Meet the project manager of the first rocket to launch from the surface of another planet, the Mars Ascent...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover to Begin Building Martian Sample Depot
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The 10 sample tubes being dropped on Mars’ surface so they can be studied on Earth in...
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Flight 43 Preview – By the Numbers
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Flight: 43 Flight date: No earlier than 02/11/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 1235.6 feet (376.56 meters) Flight time:...
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Survives First Cold Martian Night on Its Own
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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen on Mars as viewed by the Perseverance rover’s rear Hazard Camera on April...
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NASA’s InSight Finds Three Big Marsquakes, Thanks to Solar-Panel Dusting
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The lander cleared enough dust from one solar panel to keep its seismometer on through the summer, allowing scientists...