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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. –  Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a...

The USGS was involved very early in the Apollo program. NASA and the U.S. Geological survey were working together in the field training program for...

Bringing mysteries of the Martian Cave to life to aid human exploration.

In the weekend plan the remainder of the “Edinburgh” drill sample was dumped, which means that we are almost finished with activities in this drill...

Curiosity is still at the Edinburgh drill site as part of a mini campaign to sample the Greenheugh pediment.  We’re finishing drill-related analyses...

The priority for the sol 2720 plan is to drop off and analyze a sample of the Edinburgh drill hole in SAM, but we’ve got plenty of remote sensing in...

We were looking forward to seeing you visit the Astrogeology Science Center, but as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, we are closed to the public...

Our recently published image and topographic maps of Mercury (USGS SIM 3404) have been re-printed due to high demand! These maps were based on data...

During the acquisition of the MAHLI images on Sol 2705, an arm issue prevented the sequence from completing.  But enough images were successfully...

The Sol 2700 drive went well, setting the rover up for contact and remote science on exposures of the pediment-capping bedrock.  Before the arm is...