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| Bellingham scientist part of team that found clue to possible life on Mars | A Western Washington University researcher has helped mankind take a giant leap toward learning if we are alone in the universe. |
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| WWU’s Melissa Rice helping uncover the possibility of life on Mars | |||
| Sealing the Deal | This week, the Perseverance team faced a stubborn engineering challenge. After successfully collecting a core called “Green Gardens” from the “Tablelands” location, the rover struggled to seal the… |
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| Ask the dinosaurs: We aren’t ready for an asteroid ‘Big One’ | It is essential that we support efforts by NASA and others to detect NEOs, characterize them and prepare for a rapid response if we need to deflect one. We in the Pacific Northwest are no more susceptible to an asteroid impact than anyone else — but we may be better suited to understand the… |
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| WWU's Melissa Rice celebrates one-year anniversary of rover Mars landing with speaking events at Museum of Flight | |||
| WWU's Melissa Rice co-publishes new article in 'Science' about the initial discoveries of the Mars Perseverance rover | |||
| Perseverance’s first major successes on Mars – an update from mission scientists | In the short time since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, it’s already made history. At the moment, Mars and the Earth are on opposite sides of the Sun, and the two planets cannot communicate with each other. After working nonstop for the past 216… |
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| Perseverance and the Martian Clock | Perseverance and the Martian Clock What is “Mars Time”? Are you excited about machines flying on another planet? Or Martian rocks coming back to Earth? If you are curious about spacecraft on the Red Planet then check out our Season 7 Premiere featuring… |
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| Perseverance's eyes see a different Mars | “We developed Mastcam-Z for a rover going to a spot on Mars that hadn’t been selected yet, so we had to design it with all the possibilities in mind—the optimal set of eyes to capture the geology of any spot on Mars,” says Melissa Rice, a planetary scientist at Western Washington University and… |
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| Perseverance's eyes see a different Mars | “We developed Mastcam-Z for a rover going to a spot on Mars that hadn’t been selected yet, so we had to design it with all the possibilities in mind—the optimal set of eyes to capture the geology of any spot on Mars,” says Melissa Rice, a planetary scientist at Western Washington University and… |
