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The six-wheeled explorer recently captured several Red Planet mini-twisters spinning on the rim of Jezero Crater.

Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University

NASA has announced it is moving forward with several plans to return rock samples from Mars.

The rover captured a 360-degree panorama before leaving Gediz Vallis channel, a feature it's been exploring for the past year.

Using images from the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, planetary scientists have spotted a fresh volcano with multiple lava flows and volcanic deposits covering an area about 180 x 180 km.

It's a profoundly active place.

If you were standing on Mars as it was hit by a solar flare, you might be able to see an aurora just like on Earth

After 2½ years exploring Jezero Crater's floor and river delta, the rover will ascend to an area where it will search for more discoveries that could rewrite Mars' history.

The Perseverance rover has found evidence in a leopard-spotted rock that could suggest microbial life once existed on Mars billions of years ago, NASA said.

The Earth-sized storm on Jupiter known as the red spot was thought by many to have been first observed in 1665, but it turns out that may have been an entirely different enormous storm, with today's storm dating back only to 1831

Tucked away with each rock and soil sample collected by the agency's Perseverance rover is a potential boon for atmospheric scientists.

Originally thought of as little more than a route clear of rover-slowing boulders, Neretva Vallis has provided a bounty of geologic options for the science team.

NASA's Perseverance has captured Phobos, one of two moons on Mars, passing in front of the sun.

So much water, it could have rivaled Earth.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has just made the closest flybys of Jupiter's moon Io that any spacecraft has carried out in more than 20 years. An instrument on this spacecraft called "JunoCam" has returned spectacular, high-resolution images—and raw data are now available for you to process, enhance, and investigate.

The Juno spacecraft has revealed some fascinating things about Jupiter since it began exploring the system on July 4th, 2016. Not only is it the first robotic mission to study Jupiter up close while orbiting it since the Galileo spacecraft, which studied the gas giant and its satellites from 1995 to 2003. Juno is also … Continue reading "NASA's Juno Probe Makes Another Close Flyby of Io"

NASA's Juno spacecraft will on Saturday, Dec. 30, make the closest flyby of Jupiter's moon Io that any spacecraft has made in over 20 years. Coming within roughly 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the surface of the most volcanic world in our solar system, the pass is expected to allow Juno instruments to generate a firehose of data.

The mission team has celebrated several successes since its launch from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 13. The latest is the operation of the spacecraft's

The mission team is making sure the robotic scientist, now in its fourth extended mission, is staying strong, despite wear and tear from its 11-year journey.

But organics can be produced by geological processes as well as biological ones.