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Friday, 7 April 2023

NASA Mars Exploration Newsletter: April 2023


NASA Mars Exploration at a Glance

April 2023
Animation shows Mars Sample Return components at Mars. The six-wheeled Perseverance rover approaches the Sample Retrieval Lander on the Martian surface. Launching above the lander is the Mars Ascent Vehicle, tasked with carrying a container of samples toward the Earth Return Orbiter. An image of Earth appears in the center.

How Mars Rock Samples Would Make Their Way to Earth

How on Earth will we get rock samples from Mars back to our planet? Find out how multiple spacecraft would work together to get the job done.  

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Screen captured GIF of interactive map shows multi-colored markers identifying companies and institutions involved in Mars Sample Return, in positions around the United States and Europe.

Sample Return: Partners Map

Who's at work on the quest to return Mars samples to Earth? Explore this interactive map to see which institutions around the world are teaming up for this enormous challenge.

Interactive Map ›

Photo from a wide-angle camera mounted low on the front of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover shows a flat rock outcrop marked by two holes: one where the rover ground away a part of the surface, and another where it collected a sample with its coring drill. Late afternoon sunlight from above the distant horizon creates long shadows cast toward the rover by other rocks on the dusty surface. The rover's left front wheel is partially visible at lower left.

Latest Mars Sample May Have River Origin

The first sample gathered in the Perseverance rover's new science campaign may have formed from rock deposits swept downstream by an ancient river.  

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Illustration of the Odyssey orbiter spacecraft with Mars in the background. The spacecraft main structure is gold color, while the long solar panels are dark. A silver-colored truss extends from the spacecraft, with a science instrument at its end.

Engineers Track Fuel Supply of Oldest Mars Orbiter

It's a tricky task monitoring Odyssey's fuel levels after 22 years in Mars orbit, since it has no fuel gauge or low-fuel warning light like cars on Earth.

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GIF shows Ingenuity helicopter lifting off from Mars in the lower right corner, kicking up dust, rising to the top of a hill, hovering, then flying to the left until it's out of the screen view.

FEATURED VIDEO

Perseverance Catches Mars Helicopter in Flight

Watch video captured by the rover as Ingenuity lifted off on its 47th flight, kicking up a dust cloud, climbing higher, then flying horizontally and heading out of view to land safely.

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Animated image sequence shows a view of the Martian sky taken by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover, in eight photos taken over the course of about two minutes. Above a darkened horizon, an ethereal bluish glow on the left heralds the coming sunrise. On the right, a band of wispy clouds drifts overhead.

FEATURED IMAGE

Early Morning Clouds Drift Over Mars 

The cloudy season is back at Jezero Crater, and Perseverance has been watching the skies, glimpsing ethereal clouds just before sunrise.

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Graphic shows stylized tickets to Mars against a view of Mars in the background, with the title in white and orange reading 'Send Your Name to Mars'.

Fly Your Name on a Future Mars Mission

Get your "boarding pass" and join more than 23 million people sending their names to Mars on a future NASA mission.

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Graphic has a turquoise background with a multicolored representation of the Mars surface in pink, yellow, and orange, and a likeness of the Perseverance rover on the surface, and a banner saying 'You've Got Perseverance!'.

Students Receive Messages from the Rover

NASA's ongoing "You've Got Perseverance" campaign has honored nearly 100 students for overcoming academic obstacles with a personal message from Mars.

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Follow the adventures of the Mars rovers Curiosity and Perseverance, along with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, via updates written by team members.
'Selfie' photo from NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover shows the vehicle on a patch of flat, low-lying flagstones on Mars.
Wide-angle photo from NASA's Mars Perseverance rover, taken by a wide-angle camera mounted low on the front of the vehicle, shows the rover parked at an outcrop of flat rock with other loose rocks nearby. The rover's robotic arm can be seen holding science instruments over the outcrop. The rover's left front wheel is partially visible at lower left.
Aerial photo from NASA's InSight Mars Helicopter showing sky in the upper right corner, with the Martian surface of brownish dirt, with a few ripples and some stones, and an area illuminated in the center.
 

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous4/08/2023 10:37 am

    wow - are you on commission with JPL?

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    1. WOODSY4/09/2023 8:57 am

      Im hoping NASA will train me as an astronaut!

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