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The historic image of the rover beside the Mars Helicopter proved to be one of the most complex rover selfies ever taken. Video, with bonus audio, sheds light on the process.
Ever wondered how Mars rovers take a selfie? Color video from NASA’s Perseverance shows how the rover captured the historic April 6, 2021…
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Study Looks More Closely at Mars’ Underground Water Signals
A new paper finds more radar signals suggesting the presence of subsurface ‘lakes,’ but many are in areas too cold for water to remain…
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My Favorite Martian Image: Jezero Crater’s ‘Delta Scarp’
A Perseverance rover scientist’s favorite shot from the young Mars mission provides a new angle on an old and intriguing surface feature.
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Twitter is opening applications for a limited test of its Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces features. US-based users can apply separately for each program through Twitter’s mobile app; Super Follows are restricted to iOS, while Ticketed Spaces are available on iOS and Android.
Twitter will select a “small group” of users to test its new monetization features, both of which were announced…
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NASA Balloon Detects California Earthquake – Next Stop, Venus?
The technique is being developed to detect venusquakes. A new study details how, in 2019, it made the first balloon-borne detection of a quake…
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Major Ocean-Observing Satellite Starts Providing Science Data
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, the latest spacecraft to monitor sea surface height, releases its first science measurements to users.
After six months of check-out and…
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NASA’S Ingenuity Mission Honored by the Space Foundation
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The mission picked up the 2021 John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration for its history-making achievements.
The team behind NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has been named the 2021 winner of the John L. “Jack”…
Blue Origin’s month-long auction for a trip to the edge of space with its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos ended on Saturday with a closing price of $28 million. The flight aboard New Shepard, slated for July 20th, will mark the company’s first mission flying humans, in…
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NASA Approves Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope to Continue Development
The infrared space telescope is designed to help advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts.
NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope…
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NASA Selects New Science Investigations for Future Moon Deliveries
The payloads, including one from JPL, mark the agency’s first selections from its Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) call for proposals.
As NASA continues plans for multiple commercial deliveries to the Moon’s surface per year, the agency has…