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NASA’s Mars missions, clockwise from top left: Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, InSight lander, Odyssey orbiter, MAVEN orbiter, Curiosity rover, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
NASA’s Mars Fleet Lies Low As Sun Moves Between Earth and Red Planet (NASA)Sept. 28, 2021
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with the Landsat 9 satellite onboard launches, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
NASA Launches New Mission to Monitor Earth’s LandscapesSept. 27, 2021
Dr. Ronald S. Oremland (known to all as “Ron”), emeritus senior scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California.
Astrobiology Community Remembers Ron OremlandSept. 24, 2021
An artist's conception of the Landsat 9 spacecraft, the ninth satellite launched in the long-running Landsat program, high above the US Gulf Coast.
A View from Above: Landsat Images of Astrobiology Field SitesSept. 24, 2021
Composed of five images, this mosaic of Jezero Crater’s “Delta Scarp” was taken on March 17, 2021, by Perseverance’s Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI) camera from 1.4 miles (2.25 kilometers) away.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Cameras Capture Mars Like Never Before (NASA JPL)Sept. 23, 2021
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NASA Announces Virtual Webb STEAM Day Event for Students, Educators (NASA)Sept. 23, 2021
This selfie of NASA’s InSight lander is a mosaic made up of 14 images taken on March 15 and April 11 – the 106th and 133rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission – by the spacecraft Instrument Deployment Camera located on its robotic arm.
NASA’s InSight Finds Three Big Marsquakes, Thanks to Solar-Panel Dusting (NASA JPL)Sept. 22, 2021
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will survey 17 of the 20 nearby protoplanetary disks observed by Chile’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in 2018 for its Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP).
NASA’s Webb to Explore Forming Planetary Systems (NASA Goddard)Sept. 22, 2021
The American Geophysical Union.
Astrobiologists among the 2021 AGU Section Awardees and Union Medal RecipientsSept. 21, 2021
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NASA TV to Air Landsat 9 Launch, Prelaunch ActivitiesSept. 20, 2021
Jim Green, NASA’s Chief Science Officer—shown here speaking at a public event on Aug. 6, 2013, at NASA Headquarters observing the first anniversary of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars—will retire in 2022. He has worked at NASA since 1980.
NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green to Retire in 2022 (NASA)Sept. 17, 2021
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is shown at its landing site in Jezero Crater in this view from the “Explore with Perseverance” 3D web experience. This interactive web tool features a 3D model of the rover on 3D landscape created from real images.
Take a 3D Spin on Mars and Track NASA's Perseverance Rover (NASA)Sept. 16, 2021
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