For apparently the first time ever, the Curiosity rover on Mars has been spotted mid-drive from orbit, a speck of human presence on the otherwise barren and grayscale landscape. The image, taken on February 28, 2025 (Sol 4,466—a leap day here on Earth!), shows Curiosity as a tiny dark blot at the end of a […]
NASA’s Mars Rover Captures a Giant Dust Devil Swallowing Its Friend
Mars is a devil eat devil world. The Perseverance rover recently witnessed a gruesome scene on the Red Planet, in which a dust devil consumed its smaller counterpart, morphing into one, slightly larger, swirling column of air and dust. NASA’s six-wheeled robot was carrying out an imaging experiment to better understand the Martian atmosphere when […]
Curiosity Rover Spots Surprisingly Colorful ‘Twilight Clouds’ on Mars
And now for something completely different: NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a feather-shaped cloud glowing in the Martian sky shortly after sunset on the Red Planet. It dates back to January 2023, but NASA recently featured the image in an agency spotlight highlighting the rover’s investigation of the planet’s skies conducted last month. In that investigation, […]