Mars: News & Features - NASA Science
网页2024年8月16日 · Mars Exploration. Get the latest news releases, features, findings, and stories about the missions on Mars.
Mars - NASA Science
网页Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system, and it's the only planet where we've sent rovers to explore the alien landscape. NASA missions have found lots of evidence that Mars was much wetter and warmer, with a …
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sees Mars in a New Light
网页2023年7月20日 · In its first 400 days on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found a diverse collection of organics – carbon-based molecules considered the building blocks of life – thanks to SHERLOC, an innovative instrument on the rover’s robotic arm. Scientists with the mission, which is searching for evidence that the planet supported ...
Signs of Life on Mars? NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins the …
网页2021年7月20日 · NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has begun its search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. Flexing its 7-foot (2-meter) mechanical arm, the rover is testing the sensitive detectors it carries, capturing their first science readings.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers a Surprise in a Martian Rock
网页2024年7月18日 · Scientists were stunned on May 30 when a rock that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drove over cracked open to reveal something never seen before on the Red Planet: yellow sulfur crystals. Since October 2023, the rover has been exploring a region of Mars rich with sulfates, a kind of salt that contains …
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Cameras Capture Mars Like Never …
网页2021年9月23日 · Using its WATSON camera, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie over a rock nicknamed “Rochette,” on Sept.10, 2021, the 198th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Two holes can be seen where the rover used its robotic arm to …
A wobble from Mars could be sign of dark matter, MIT study finds
网页4 天之前 · Science News reporter Emily Conover spotlights a new study by MIT researchers that proposes a new method to search for microscopic primordial black holes, which, if they exist, “could explain some or all of the universe’s dark matter.”The researchers suggest that when a primordial black hole passes close to a planet, it could “produce noticeable effects despite its tiny size.”
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock
网页2024年7月25日 · NASA’s Perseverance rover has made very compelling observations in a Martian rock that, with further study, could prove that life was present on Mars in the distant past — but how can we determine that from a rock, and what do we need to do to confirm it?
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Makes Surprising Discoveries
网页2021年12月15日 · Scientists with NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover mission have discovered that the bedrock their six-wheeled explorer has been driving on since landing in February likely formed from red-hot magma. The discovery has implications for understanding and accurately dating critical events in the history of Jezero Crater – as well as the rest of the ...
Mars 2020: Perseverance Rover - NASA Science
网页2020年7月30日 · The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover searches for signs of ancient microbial life, to advance NASA's quest to explore the past habitability of Mars. The rover is collecting core samples of Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and soil), for potential pickup by a future mission that would bring them to Earth for detailed study.