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Happy New Year on MarsESA · Live
30 September 2026 marks the start of a new year on Mars. At exactly 13:43 CET/11:43 UTC on Earth, the Red Planet begins a new orbit around our Sun.
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Mars Has Its CharmesNASA · Live
Written by Athanasios (Thanos) Klidaras, Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University Sept. 21, 2026 After a long hiatus, the Perseverance rover updates page is back. A lot has happened on Mars in the meantime, and with regular updates now resuming, there is plenty to catch up on — Perse
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NASA Tests Dual Mode Propulsion CubeSat Ahead of LaunchNASA · Live
Spacecraft propulsion traditionally relies on volatile fuels and separate, bulky systems for different types of maneuvering in space. NASA is working to change that paradigm. Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recently completed a rigorous se
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NASA Unveils Winning Designs for Mars Space Food Systems ChallengeNASA · Live
NASA announced the winners of the Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table Thursday, with the top $300,000 prize being awarded to Chinyere Ukeje of Philadelphia, Pa. for the Adaptive Nourishment Infrastructure (ANI) food system concept. This competition challenged solvers to expl
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NASA’s Machines for Mars Make Beer BubblyNASA · Live
Carbon-capture technology repurposed for breweries spreads and finds new applications
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Perseverance’s View of ‘Turquoise Bay’NASA · Live
Description NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of “Turquoise Bay,” a geologic area of interest in the “Margin Unit.” The 818 images used to create the natural-color panorama were captured between Oct. 5 and Oct. 16, 2023,
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NASA Discovery Reveals Complex Water Systems on Early MarsNASA · Live
When NASA’s Perseverance rover reached the inner edge of Mars’ Jezero Crater in September 2023, mission scientists were surprised by what they found. Called the “Margin Unit,” the geologic area stretches along the shoreline of an ancient Martian lake, so they expected sedimentary
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Curiosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on MarsNASA · Live
Description While parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of day. The first was taken on Aug. 30, 2026, at 9:56 a.m. local Mars time; the second was taken on Sep. 2, 2
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NASA’s Integrated Medical Model (IMM)NASA · Live
Planning crewed missions to the Moon and Mars involves preparing for the medical realities of long-duration space travel. Factors like cosmic radiation, microgravity, and distance from Earth create unique health considerations for astronauts. To anticipate these needs ahead of ti
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 5002-5009: Tough Planning To Learn More About Wind-Blown SedimentsNASA · Live
Written by Benjamin Tutolo, Professor, University of Calgary Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 4, 2026 Curiosity has marked several huge milestones (14 years on Mars; 5,000 sols on Mars; 1 kilometer of elevation gain since landing) over the past several weeks, and the team has d
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Purple swirls on the Red PlanetESA · Live
This image shows a prominent ice cliff near Mars’s south pole. With striking swirls of purple, pink and red, it’s a far cry from the colour palette we usually associate with the Red Planet.
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NASA Invites Media to International Observe the Moon NightNASA · Live
NASA will host an International Observe the Moon Night celebration from 5:30 to 8 p.m. CST on Saturday, Sept. 19, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the official visitor center for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. International Observe the Moon Night ce
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Artemis II Crew at NASA MarshallNASA · Live
The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission – NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – visited Huntsville, Alabama, Sept. 1, 2026, where they met with the NASA workforce at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Cen
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4995-5001: 5,000 (Martian) Days on MarsNASA · Live
Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 The span of sols spanned by this blog post is noteworthy in several ways. First, Curiosity became a world-class (for Mars at least) mountaineer by passing the
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4988-4994: More New Tricks for an Old DogNASA · Live
Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 21, 2026 After Curiosity’s 14 years on the surface, Mars continues to surprise. Both of our workspaces this week contained features unlike quite anything we have seen in the past —
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NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network ProviderBlue Origin · Live
NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract Tuesday to develop the agency’s Mars Telecommunications Network, a next-generation communications system that will enable reliable, high-bandwidth communications and navigation services for current and future Mars missions. The firm-fixed-price