Dr. Shannon Curry, planetary scientist and the deputy assistant director of planetary science at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley, has assumed leadership of NASA’s first mission devoted to studying the Martian atmosphere.
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My Favorite Martian Image: ‘Enchanted’ Rocks at Jezero Crater
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Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance’s Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she’s looking for....
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NASA’s MAVEN Continues to Advance Mars Science and Telecommunications Relay Efforts
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With a suite of new national and international spacecraft primed to explore the Red Planet after their arrival next...
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Hide and Seek
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Even before the end of Ingenuity’s primary mission as a technology demonstrator, the helicopter showed that it...
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen From Red Planet
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The milestone, which the MOXIE instrument achieved by converting carbon dioxide into oxygen, points the way to future human...
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Sensors Collect Crucial NASA Data on Mars Environment With Perseverance Landing
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MEDLI2 was one of the crucial technologies onboard the rover’s protective aeroshell that helped document the entry, descent, and...
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NASA Retires Mineral Mapping Instrument on Mars Orbiter
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One of six instruments aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM produced global maps of minerals on...
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Captures Video of Record Flight
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Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent fight in which the rotorcraft flew farther and faster than...
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NASA InSight Study Provides Clearest Look Ever at Martian Core
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A pair of quakes in 2021 sent seismic waves deep into the Red Planet’s core, giving scientists...