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You won’t want to miss out on Geomorphological evidence for a dry dust avalanche origin of slope streaks on Mars!

Marc Hunter of the Astrogeology Science Center has been recognized for a photo of a Valles Marineras Tharsis color topographic map chosen to be...

A few months ago, Curiosity drove up on top of the Greenheugh pediment (see this blog post: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/8624/sols-2696...

Curiosity is making good progress on the way to “Bloodstone Hill,” an interesting bright outcrop visible on the left side of the above Navcam image....

Millions of people are listening to a song called “Shoemaker” by a Finnish music group called 'Nightwish', written as a tribute to Dr. Eugene...

Today’s plan marks the start of our more than 1.5 km traverse to the next major unit of Mt. Sharp, the “sulfate-bearing” unit. During this traverse...

As the Curiosity rover explores the Martian climate and geology of  Mars,  scientists are hoping to find definitive evidence that life once existed...

There was a hiccup with SAM in Monday’s plan preventing it from running the “preconditioning” steps to get ready for sample analysis, but after...

In March 2015, researchers were excited as they waited for details about the dwarf planet Ceres from NASA’s Dawn mission. Further knowledge of the...

Astrogeology Field Notes for March.  “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” -Winston Churchill