Curiosity Rover is back with a set of post solar-conjunction images from sol 4784 (January 20, 2026). The images are now available on the mission image server.

This image was taken by one the rover's hazard avoidance cameras. It was acquired during mission Sol 4784 (January 20, 2026). Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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

Next Monday is the 26th of January, a public holiday observed nationally in Australia.

This date marks the landing of the First Fleet in 1788 and the establishment of the British colony of New South Wales. It’s not our “Independence Day”—if anything that would be the 1st of January.

Be aware that many Australians, both Indigenous and settler, consider Australia Day to be a day of mourning, reflection, solemnity and reconciliation.

Please read the room before wishing the Australians you know a “happy” Australia Day.

So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos.

Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home.

Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.

https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy

The sun was about 13° below the horizon when the Perseverance rover captured this image of the early morning twilight on Mars back in March.
Mars' smaller moon Deimos is shining through the atmospheric haze above the Nili Planum region.

https://flic.kr/p/2r6neAK

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

#Perseverance #NASA #Mars #Mars2020 #Solarocks

This past weekend I had a chance to visit and old friend in it's forever home.

Seeing Dusty, Spirit and Opportunity's Earth based copy, in the National Air & Space Museum definitely had me a little misty eyed but with a smile.

I spent many years as the testbed lead responsible for Dusty's health and safety and lots of shifts operating it in the testbed, I definitely have an attachment to this specific rover. Dusty may not have gone to Mars, but it was the only MER I have seen with my own eyes.

With #LPSC2025 about to start, it's time to share what I've been working on during the last months.
This is a new high resolution 3D model of the Mont Mercou outcrop, that I made during my recent internship at LPG Nantes. 🧵

#Mars #NASA #Curiosity #MSL #planetaryscience #photogrammetry

On January 14, 2005 just over 20 years ago today, the Huygens probe touched down on the organic-rich surface of Saturn's moon Titan.

Here is the scene from Titan's surface. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07232

Scientists (I'm one of those) have been analyzing this image and the other descent images from the probe for 2 decades. What have we learned from the probe images about the surface of enigmatic moon?

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