Space

. NASA Leadership Visits JPL, Discusses Climate Change and Mars NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy met with elected officials about Earth science and visited mission control for the Perseverance Mars rover. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy affirmed the agency’s…

. NASA, along with the European Space Agency, is developing a campaign to return the Martian samples to Earth. On Sept. 1, NASA’s Perseverance rover unfurled its arm, placed a drill bit at the Martian surface, and drilled about 2 inches, or 6 centimeters, down to extract a rock core. The rover later sealed the rock core in its tube. This historic event marked the…

. NASA’s Perseverance Sheds More Light on Jezero Crater’s Watery Past Pictures from NASA’s latest six-wheeler on the Red Planet suggest the area’s history experienced significant flooding events. A new paper from the science team of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover details how the hydrological cycle of the now-dry…

. NASA’s Mars Fleet Lies Low With Sun Between Earth and Red Planet The missions will continue collecting data about the Red Planet, though engineers back on Earth will stop sending commands to them until mid-October. NASA will stand down from commanding its Mars missions for the next few weeks while Earth and the Red Planet are on opposite sides of the…