Sampling Earthly Geysers For Insights Into The Icy Ocean Moons
Reported by Universe Today
One way of studying and understanding distant, hard-to-reach locations elsewhere in the Solar System is to find analogues of them here on Earth. For example, deserts and lava fields are often used to understand aspects of the Martian surface. In new resear...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:50 +0000
NASA to Cover 33rd SpaceX Resupply Mission Station Departure
Reported by NASA
NASA and its international partners will receive scientific research samples and hardware when a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Thursday, Feb. 26, and returns to Earth. Watch NASA’s live coverage of the undocking and ...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:47 +0000
Curiosity Studies Nodules on Boxwork Formations
Reported by NASA
Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover discovered these bumpy, pea-sized nodules while exploring a region filled with boxwork formations — low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy hollows in-between. This mosaic is made...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:58 +0000
Curiosity Surveys the Boxwork Region
Reported by NASA
Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of boxwork formations — the low ridges seen here with hollows in between them — using its Mastcam on Sept. 26, 2025, the 4,671st Martian day, or sol, of the mission. These boxwork formati...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:34 +0000
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sees Martian ‘Spiderwebs’ Up Close
Reported by NASA
For about six months, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called boxwork, low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy hollows in between. Crisscrossing the surface for miles, the...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:52 +0000
Perseverance’s Landing
Reported by NASA
NASA’s Perseverance Rover approaches Mars in this Feb. 18, 2020, top-down still image captured by a camera on the rover’s descent stage. Perseverance is searching for signs of ancient microbial life, to advance NASA’s quest to explore the past ha...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:27 +0000