One critical finding came from Mars Science Laboratory’s ChemCam instrument, which detected hydrogen in the dust, suggesting ...

An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

The Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, successfully landed on the red planet on August 6, 2012, after nearly a year traveling from Earth. At that time Curiosity began a multi-year mission to explore ...

It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...

In its two years and three months of exploring the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance Rover has been one busy moving Martian science lab.It has detected signs of past chemical reactions, begun ...

As part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Mission, the rover was sent to answer a simple question: "Did Mars ever have the right environmental conditions to support small life forms?" ...

Mars Sample Return represents the culmination of decades of planning by the planetary science community, and it has been the top-ranked scientific priority of the last two Decadal Surveys of the ...

Tutolo is a participating scientist on the NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover team. view more . Credit: University of Calgary 2025 Riley Brandt/University of Calgary.

Jennifer Trosper, an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is part of a small group of people who have worked on all five NASA Mars rovers. Here she is in 2021 with a model of Perseverance.