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The Mars Report
Feb. 26, 2018
Opportunity Rover
Opportunity was built to last
90 sols, or Martian days.
Daybreak on sol 4999
More than 5,000 sols later
she's still making discoveries
like these stone
stripes on Mars,
which resemble similar
geology on Earth.
She even took her first selfie
using her microscopic imager.
It was a little blurry-- her
camera wasn't made for selfies!
Curiosity Rover
The Curiosity rover has
spotted tiny crystals
and stick-like figures on Mars.
These tiny crystals may be
what's left from
an ancient lake
or when past groundwater
moved through sediment.
Mars 2020
A piece of Mars will be going
home with NASA's 2020 mission.
A Martian meteorite will
be on the new rover
to serve as a practice target
for one of the rover's
high precision lasers.
Coming soon:
Mars Cube One (MarCO)
When NASA launches the Insight
mission to Mars this spring
the rocket will also carry a
technology demonstration.
Two smallsats, known as
Mars Cube One (MarCO) will
serve as a communications relay
for InSight during landing.
Engineers recently installed and
tested MarCO's solar arrays.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute
of Technology
