Still on Mars with Curiosity. Still doing awesome science. Love this recent "MAHLI after dark" image we acquired last month of our drill in the super cool boxwork region: science.nasa.gov/resource/cur...

NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring home. But Congress's current proposed budget for the agency would leave them stranded. What's at stake? Take a deep dive with this recent feature:

#PPOD: Team members working with NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover created this “postcard” by commanding the rover to take images at two times of day on Nov. 18, 2025, spanning the 4,722nd and 4,723rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission. 🧪 🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A beautiful sketch of Curiosity's tactical ops room (with a title that makes me tear up 🥲). Thanks so much for sharing this @sharponlooker.net

Happy Landiversary Curiosity. <3 science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi...

www.nasa.gov/missions/mar... Our JPL engineers continue to blow my mind with their talent. Squeezing every drop of science out of our wonderful rover that we can! (h/t to @dougellison.bsky.social for making my late night request to acquire this Navcam postcard a reality. The view was too good!)

The Curiosity rover is sending back some jaw-droppingly gorgeous views from Mars right now... Well done everyone on the camera teams|! Just look at this glorious detail and lighting...! Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson

Can't stop staring at these new views of crazy yardang unit!!! (The light colored cliffs that are furthest away)

Stunning late afternoon view of the lower boxworks from the Mars Curiosity Rover, taken with MastCam on Sol 4547. flic.kr/p/2r6v3t3

Monday moment of zen: Photos from last Saturday's hike to Trail Canyon Falls, just a 30 min drive from Pasadena. There were not many people out during the late afternoon on that drizzly day, and we ended up having the falls all to ourselves. Pure magic.

The boxwork structure captured by Curiosity's navigation camera earlier today #Mars May 16, 2025 - Sol 4541 🧪🔭 Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Light finds a way through. #photography

Proposed NASA cuts in context, courtesy of the Planetary Society #astronomy #science

Really proud of this. Amazing detective work lead by the brilliant Ben Tutolo, made possible by the entire Curiosity Mars Rover team. Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Perspective: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Beautiful early morning light on Mars

Alors que la situation sur Terre n'est pas des plus paisibles, le rover Curiosity poursuit son exploration du cratère Gale. Cette sublime vue a été assemblée à partir d'images acquises hier, à 7h heure martienne. A droite s'élève Gould Mesa, haute de 30 m. © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Thomas Appéré

Sometimes it's "safe travels" and sometimes it's Ed Abbey: "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view." Gale Crater, Mars, on Tuesday. science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-...

Emily said it perfectly.

In love with this new photo from the Hera spacecraft showing the "backside" of Deimos aka weird little space potato full of mystery!

Early morning light illuminating the hills of Mt. Sharp's sulfate unit. Imaged last week by Curiosity.

So obsessed with the amazing friendship bracelet @elakdawalla.bsky.social handed me during yesterday's poster session at #LPSC2025. Do you see the six hematite rover wheels? Eeeee!!!! <3

THIS IS SO COOL

There are reports that the WH plans to cut NASA's science budget by 50%. This would devastate space science for generations. There is no "oopsie undo" button for such a cut. There are no private or commercial paths to replacing this support. Our space science research capacity would simply be lost.

The Lunar Trailblazer orbiter's launch window opens Feb 26. It's catching a ride with Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission which is landing on the moon near the south pole. Both have instruments for looking for water.

Elena and I are so excited for @lunartrailblazer.bsky.social launch :D If weather / systems / everything stay nominal: Livestream: www.nasa.gov/live/ 4:16pm PT – Launch ~5:04pm PT – Separation of Lunar Trailblazer ~5:15p PT – End of livestream

In good news... LET'S GO!!! Pumped for these mission!!! (Especially @lunartrailblazer.bsky.social !!!)

“Pyramid Lake”, a Martian pyramid-shaped rock captured by the Curiosity rover. More insights in this post by @abbyfrae.bsky.social science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-44... #Mars Feb. 15, 2025 (Sol 4454) 🔭🧪 Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

A portion of the cliff of Wilkerson Butte, imaged using MastCam on Sol 4450 by the Mars Curiosity Rover. flic.kr/p/2qLxCYy

YES TO ALL THIS 🥂 Launch window opens Feb 26!

Taking a moment to breathe and watch the pearly clouds go by (on Mars). www.nasa.gov/missions/mar...

Be like the hot spring hydrothermal plume in the Alvord Desert: be unstoppable, inexorable, and salty. #Drone ortho-images over three days last summer as part of the HeliHabitable field campaign.

Despite the vagueness of the OMB order, I attempted to make a reasonable guess based on its definitions and references to 2 C.F.R. § 200.1. NASA's active grants and "Cooperative Agreements" have nearly $887M of obligations in the past few fiscal years, and impact every state in the union.

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

Curiosity is busy taking awesome pictures of a small impact crater named "Rustic Canyon." Our wonderful, diverse team of humans here on Earth makes this happen. Everything benefits when people with different backgrounds and ways of approaching problems work together.

Over 200 JPLers have lost everything in the LA fires. Every single project I work on includes at least one, most multiple. Everyone at JPL is affected, everyone is utterly heartbroken for our community. Ways you can help: giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...

My friends Topher & Elena Amador-French (+MSL's Sci Operations Team Chief), lost their home in the Eaton Fire. They had minutes warning. If you’re looking for ways to help, direct donations are going a long way right now. Venmo: account.venmo.com/u/elena-amador, Zelle: frenchcg [at] gmail [dot] com

What comes after Ingenuity? We're working on a bigger, more capable helicopter. We could send it the largest canyon in the solar system, Valles Marineris, to unlock secrets of planetary evolution and explore billions of years of history together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz4G...

Welcome to the "Altadena Quad" Curiosity! Over the weekend, the Curiosity team snapped the view below & started a new theme for informal target names that will recognize the geology and rich human history around Altadena, a town in JPL's backyard. Wohoo! science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-43...

The workspace (area in reach of the arm instruments) in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover after its Sol 4382 drive yestersol.

A fascinating article about the history and future paths of NASA x commercial space. I've been thinking about this topic a lot lately, and I learned a lot from reading this.

New Curiosity 360 panorama just dropped! So long Gediz Vallis, you were full of surprises. Nothing beats seeing Mars from a rover's eye view. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbfO...

Hello friends on Bluesky, I'm so happy to find you! For my first post, here's a picture of a blue(ish) sky I took last night, featuring Earth's beautiful Moon and the city I love.