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This 360-degree mosaic from the “Airey Hill” location inside Jezero Crater was generated using 993 individual images taken by the Perseverance Mars rover’s Mastcam-Z from Nov. 3-6. The rover remained parked at Airey Hill for several weeks during solar conjunction. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Deciphers Ancient History of Martian Lake

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used two different cameras to create this selfie in front of Mont Mercou, a rock outcrop that stands 20 feet tall. New analysis by Penn State researchers reveals that much of the craters on Mars today could have once been habitable rivers. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. All Rights Reserved.

Curiosity rover finds new evidence of ancient Mars rivers, a key signal for life

Martian dustdevil

NASA’s Perseverance Captures Dust-Filled Martian Whirlwind

Image: A selfie, taken by the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars in June 2016. The Curiosity rover used the pyrolysis-GCMS equipment described in this notice (Secondary Creator Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS).

Scientists develop AI method to identify life on other worlds

Life requires repetition of chemical reactions. Describing the kinds of reactions and conditions required for self-sustaining repetition — called autocatalysis — could focus the search for life on other planets.

New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets

This raw image from the Curiosity Rover shows the hexagon-shaped mudcracks filled with salt.

New insights into the potential for early steps of biological evolution on Mars

Using cosmic weather to study which worlds could support life

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover uses SHERLOC – one of several instruments on the end of its robotic arm – to study rocks in an area nicknamed “Skinner Ridge.” Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sees Mars in a New Light

SwRI contributed to new Cycle 1 JWST findings that show the plume of water escaping from Saturn’s moon Enceladus extends 6,000 miles or more than 40 times the moon’s size. In light of this discovery, SwRI’s Dr. Christopher Glein was awarded a NASA JWST Cycle 2 allocation to study the plume as well as the icy surface of Enceladus, to better understand the potential habitability of this ocean world.

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Throws Water Party Visible from Space

Erupting volcano

Meteoritic and volcanic particles may have promoted origin of life reactions

Bands of rocks may have been formed by a very fast, deep river – the first such evidence found for on Mars

Wild river on Mars emerges from images, rock evidence

Mars and water

Rover finds evidence of water at low latitudes on modern Mars

In this artist's impression of the breadcrumb scenario, autonomous rovers can be seen exploring a lava tube after being deployed by a mother rover that remains at the entrance to maintain contact with an orbiter or a blimp.

Hansel and Gretel’s breadcrumb trick inspires robotic exploration of caves on Mars and beyond

Mars

Better tools needed to determine ancient life on Mars

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