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How Solar Storms This Year Will Help Mars Astronauts in the Future (Mars Report – April 2024)

The Sun’s activity will be at its peak in 2024, providing a rare opportunity to study how solar storms and…

See Ingenuity’s Flight Map: 72 Helicopter Flights on Mars

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter became the first vehicle to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet when it took to…

Postcards From Earth to NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

Throughout its mission on the Red Planet, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter received thousands of electronic postcards filled with well wishes…

Meet the Mars Samples: Comet Geyser (Sample 24)

Meet the 24th Martian sample collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover – “Comet Geyser,” a sample taken from a region…

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Reaches Gediz Vallis Channel (360 View)

360-degree panorama provided by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. This view was captured at Gediz Vallis channel, a feature that formed…

Animation of Mars Helicopter Flight Test

This animation shows a simulation of the response of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to the system identification, or “Sys-ID,” process.…

Mars Report: The Most Extreme Flights of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter pushed aerodynamic limits during the final months of its mission, setting new records for speed, distance,…

The Legacy of Ingenuity: The Frontier of Extraterrestrial Flight

From the challenges of building NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to its first Red Planet flight and well beyond, see some…

Celebrating Spirit & Opportunity’s 20th Anniversary Landing on Mars

Using footage filmed at JPL when Spirit touched down on Jan. 3, 2004, as well an animation depicting the rover's…

Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River

After 1,000 Martian days of exploration, NASA’s Perseverance rover is studying rocks that show several eras in the history of…

Meet the Mars Samples: Lefroy Bay (Sample 23)

Meet the 23rd Martian sample collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover – "Lefroy Bay," a sample taken from a region of…

How Perseverance’s PIXL Gets Close to a Rock Target

This time-lapse video, which has been sped up by 24 times, uses an engineering model of one of the instruments…

Water Enters Jezero Crater Billions of Years Ago (Artist’s Concept)

This animated artist’s concept depicts water breaking through the rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater, which NASA’s Perseverance rover is now…

The Day the Solar Wind Disappeared from Mars

In December 2022, NASA’s Mars-orbiting MAVEN mission observed the dramatic and unexpected “disappearance” of the solar wind, a stream of…

Meet the Mars Samples: Pelican Point (Sample 22)

Meet the 22nd Martian sample collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover – "Pelican Point," the first sample taken from an area…