Salt-crusted road in the Atacama desert, 2018. Carretera cubierta de sal en el desierto de Atacama, 2018. #atacamadesert #photo #travelphotography #NASA #marsrover #atacama #chile #desert #fieldscience #photography #foto #viajes #travelphoto #outdooradventures #chiletravel #desiertodeatacama

Salt-crusted road in the Atacama desert, 2018.

Carretera cubierta de sal en el desierto de Atacama, 2018.

طريق مغطى بالملح في صحراء أتاكاما، 2018.

Route recouverte de sel dans le désert d'Atacama, 2018.

Estrada coberta de sal no deserto do Atacama, 2018.

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Mars Guy: Episode 239.
Mars is notorious for having copious amounts of dust, so when the dust cover of the highest resolution camera on Perseverance could not be closed, it seemed doomed. Here’s what’s happened after 21 months uncovered.

https://youtu.be/awUHaXxG2m0

#Perseverance #MarsRover #M2020 #NASA #science #Space #Exploration #Solarocks #Mars #SHERLOC

Meanwhile on Mars:

A Bayer reconstructed Mast Camera Mosaic from Sol 4700 (October 26, 2025). It features a section of the rocky ridge that surrounds the shallow depression in the boxwork region on Mount Sharp, where Curiosity rover is presently stationed after drilling a small hole in the bedrock to extract a portion of powdered rock for analysis.

Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

#Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarocks #Mars

Pretty Kewl! NASA's Perseverance Rover captures a bluish sunset on Mars.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ9TpD4eR1zAMh-0yI_gTVrumBV-ajCbF9d7ythitqT1RLqhWRXgSAORww&s

#Mars #NASA #MarsSunset #MarsRover #Perserverence

Meanwhile on Mars: An uphill drive lasting ~67 minutes for Perseverance rover during mission Sol 1661 (October 22, 2025). The distance was ~44 meters due north, climbing ~9.2 meters, with an end-of-drive tilt of 18.7°.

Attached is a processed rear HazCam image looking downslope at its wheel tracks, the drive data, and screen captures of the updated mission map (with scale bars).

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA

#Perseverance #MarsRover #M2020 #NASA #science #Space #Solarocks #Mars

🌌🔴 Unprecedented Mars mission! ESA’s ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover launches 2028, drilling 2m deep—the deepest ever—to hunt for ancient life signs from 4B years ago. Shielded from radiation, samples could reveal if Mars once hosted life! Read more: https://thedebrief.org/drilling-to-this-depth-is-unprecedented-on-mars-how-the-esas-new-robotic-rover-will-take-the-search-for-alien-life-to-new-depths/

@goodnews

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9 overlapping ChemCam RMI images acquired during sol 4687 assembled into a mosaic using MS-ICE. Curiosity rover acquired additional images, but they have yet to be downlinked from the rover in the correct format on the public server. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/IRAP

#Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarocks #Mars #JPL #LANL #IRAP

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https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/jpl-workforce--update/

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Rock Coatings as Evidence for Late Surface Alteration on the Floor of Jezero Crater, Mars

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009242

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Stunning New NASA Perseverance Rover Images Show Mars Clearer Than Ever Before #Science #Space #SpaceExploration #MarsRover #NASA
https://purescience.news/article?id=950166

ExMAG/MEPAG meeting September 15-19, 2025. ☺️ Status from #Mars2020 #Perseverance Thursday and Friday
#Astrobiology #MarsRover
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/exmagmay2025/technical_program/#20250915

#Astrobiology #Mars #JezeroCrater #Mars2020Mission

Here's your daily dose of #MarsRover photography

Taken on 14/6/2022 by Curiosity with the FHAZ camera (Front Hazard Avoidance Camera)

Curiosity launched on 26/11/2011 and landed on Mars on 06/08/2012.

Here's your daily dose of #MarsRover photography

Taken on 1/2/2014 by Curiosity with the FHAZ camera (Front Hazard Avoidance Camera)

Curiosity launched on 26/11/2011 and landed on Mars on 06/08/2012.

Here's your daily dose of #MarsRover photography

Taken on 2/7/2016 by Curiosity with the FHAZ camera (Front Hazard Avoidance Camera)

Curiosity launched on 26/11/2011 and landed on Mars on 06/08/2012.

Here's your daily dose of #MarsRover photography

Taken on 1/9/2022 by Curiosity with the FHAZ camera (Front Hazard Avoidance Camera)

Curiosity launched on 26/11/2011 and landed on Mars on 06/08/2012.

Here's your daily dose of #MarsRover photography

Taken on 2/8/2017 by Curiosity with the FHAZ camera (Front Hazard Avoidance Camera)

Curiosity launched on 26/11/2011 and landed on Mars on 06/08/2012.

Then & Now on Mars:
Images acquired 13 years apart feature Curiosity rover's MAHLI camera with its lens cap fully closed. The first image was taken just 32 Sols after landing in 2012, the second image was taken a few days ago on Sol 4,656 (September 11, 2025.
13 years of dust accumulation may appear bad, but the camera is still acquiring beautiful close-up images on Mars.

#Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarocks #Mars #ThenAndNow #13years

Pontential sign of Ancient life☺️
NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year
https://nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-says-mars-rover-discovered-potential-biosignature-last-year/
#Astrobiology #Mars #Mars2020 #Perseverance #JezeroCrater #Mars2020Mission #Nasa #MarsRover #MarsSampleReturn #MSR #Biosignature

Meanwhile on Mars:
Early Morning Imaging.
16-tile Left NavCam.
Sol 1622, 05:55 LMST.
Friday September 12, 2025.
Credits NASA/JPL-Caltech.

#Perseverance #MarsRover #M2020 #NASA #science #Space #Exploration #Solarocks #Mars