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Social interactions in isolated, confined, and extreme environments - a study of Antarctic winter teams using wearable sensors: #Antarctica #Moon #Mars

Turbulence-coupled Electrodynamics of the Martian Year 34 Global Dust Storm on #Mars: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae69db -> UAH researcher finds martian dust storms may generate atmospheric electrical conditions that could impact Mars missions: https://www.uah.edu/news/news/uah-researcher-finds-martian-dust-storms-may-generate-atmospheric-electrical-conditions-could-impact-mars-missions

Using asteroid early orbital data for rapid mars missions: #Mars: https://t3n.de/news/abkuerzung-mars-route-mission-1740314/ - neue Route könnte Gesamtmission auf 153 Tage eindampfen.

Seismic evidence for a melt-depleted lower crust and transcrustal magmatism on #Mars: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02907-5 -> New evidence suggests vast hidden magma systems inside Mars: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06-24-new-evidence-suggests-vast-hidden-magma-systems-inside-mars

Organics in #meteorites: In preparation for ESA’s search for life on #Mars with #RosalindFranklin, researchers from

Diverse organic molecules on #Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70656-0 -> NASA’s Curiosity Finds Organic Molecules Never Seen Before on Mars: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-finds-organic-molecules-never-seen-before-on-mars/

Hey, #Mars is back in the sky, kind of: during this dawn's #NLC observations - #Pleiades and got it photographically (1 second at f/2.8 and ISO 800) but couldn't see either object naked-eye.

A funny incident just happened on #Mars - the drill of the rover Curiosity got stuck in a rock which was then lifted up and moved around a bit before it fell off on its own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztB7lgMxr_g

Amapari Marker Band Metal-Enrichments - Potential Mechanisms and Implications for Surface and Subsurface Water and Weathering in Gale Crater: #Mars: https://www.lanl.gov/media/news/0421-ancient-lakes-on-mars

It might not yet have reached Earth orbit, but #RelativitySpace has announced plans for a mission to #Mars carrying a NASA payload: #Aeolus and scheduled for 2028, will launch a Mars orbiter carrying four NASA-built instruments.

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Identifying the topographic signature of early Martian oceans: #Mars: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bathtub-ring-is-new-evidence-for-an-ancient-ocean-on-mars

Detection of Zwan-Wolf effect in the ionosphere of #Mars: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72251-9 -> NASA’s MAVEN Makes 1st Discovery of Atmospheric Effect at Mars: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/maven/nasas-maven-makes-1st-discovery-of-atmospheric-effect-at-mars/

More #Psyche images of #Mars, now with NASA's own processing (but further improved in contrast here) from #GravityAssist went well: with the ion engine on again the spacecraft should reach the asteroid Psyche in August 2029.

Expanding Mars’ lithologic diversity - discovery of a garnet-bearing clast in NWA 8171: #Mars: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/scientists-discover-new-rock-type-on-mars

Magnetic Reconnection as a Potential Trigger for #Magnetotail Flapping at #Mars - Insights From #MAVEN and Tianwen-1 Observations: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026AV002343 -> What Makes Mars’s Magnetotail Flap?
Spacecraft reveal a key driver of up-and-down motions of thin, current-carrying plasma sheets on the nightside of Mars: https://eos.org/research-spotlights/what-makes-marss-magnetotail-flap

Yay, the #Mars close-up images taken by the #Psyche spacecraft during its #GravityAssist two days ago have begun to appear on https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche-raw-images/ - severe image processing required ...

50 years ago #OTD the #Viking 1 Orbiter with its precious Lander cargo entered into orbit around #Mars: https://www.facebook.com/VikingMarsMission/posts/pfbid034yTJzsyT5ZrNHgsFeNtxrvFDRxRpFQyQfB344patQDdUr7JBCnJZgPBk9sdSuhhNl - the landing came a month later.

Meanwhile some Slope Streaks in Amazonis Planitia on #Mars from the MRO: https://www.uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076980_2115 - a paper had proposed this location as a candidate site for recurring slope lineae (RSL), where slope streaks were also observed.

And another #Psyche #Mars image from the #GravityAssist, just in as https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche_images/6658/ - see also https://bsky.app/profile/thomasappere.bsky.social/post/3mm2lwu6qrk23 for a great mosaic from images appearing previously on https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche-raw-images/

Two more #Psyche pictures from the #Mars #GravityAssist two days ago - https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche-raw-images/ is taking off, but a lot of contrast-boosting remains necessary.

Moments ago #Psyche came closest to #Mars during its #GravityAssist - here is the planet yesterday still as a crescent, in fan processing of the raw images https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche-raw-images/ (full caption and credit in ALT).

Spatially distributed complex #organic matter detected in an ancient river valley in #Jezero crater, #Mars: #Raman spectrometer onboard the #Perseverance rover, we report the heterogeneous distribution of organic carbon within mudstones located in an ancient river valley on Mars. Measurements of two mudstones show hundreds of organic detections, making this the most robust organic detection in Jezero crater thus far, and, to our knowledge, the only detection of macromolecular carbon on a natural rock surface on Mars."