Fwd: Month in Review: NASA Rover Detects Electric Sparks in Mars Dust Devils, Storms | Rover Operations Center Unveiled | SPHEREx’s First All-Sky Map | First Data From Sentinel-6B | Mars Orbiter Takes 100,000th Image

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Date: January 5, 2026 at 2:04:36 PM PST
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Subject: Month in Review: NASA Rover Detects Electric Sparks in Mars Dust Devils, Storms | Rover Operations Center Unveiled | SPHEREx’s First All-Sky Map | First Data From Sentinel-6B | Mars Orbiter Takes 100,000th Image
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Perseverance confirmed a long-suspected phenomenon in which electrical discharges and their associated shock waves can be born... 

Missions __ News __ Galleries __ Events January 5, 2026 Mars NASA Rover Detects Electric Sparks in Mars Dust Devils, Storms Perseverance confirmed a long-suspected phenomenon in which electrical discharges and their associated shock waves can be born within Red Planet mini-twisters. Full Story, Audio, and Video Stars and Galaxies NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other The telescope will help scientists answer big-picture questions about everything from water deposits in the Milky Way to what happened in the first second after the big bang. Read More Solar System NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean Reanalysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission has revealed Saturn’s moon may instead have layers of slush with isolated pockets of liquid water. Read More Mars NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Ready to Roll for Miles in Years Ahead The rover has been acing a long-term series of durability tests, making the most of its enhanced navigation capabilities, and ferreting out new findings about Mars’ geologic past. Read More Earth NASA, Partners Share First Data From New US-European Sea Satellite Launched in November, Sentinel-6B will track ocean height with ultraprecision to advance marine forecasting, national security, and more. Read More VIDEO What's Up - January 2026 Jupiter is at its biggest and brightest all year, the Moon and Saturn pair up, and the Beehive Cluster buzzes into view. Watch Now Solar System NASA JPL Shakes Things Up Testing Future Commercial Lunar Spacecraft As Firefly Aerospace prepares to follow its successful soft landing on the Moon, an engineering model for its next lander is being put through its paces. Read More Mars One of NASA’s Key Cameras Orbiting Mars Takes 100,000th Image Mesas and dunes stand out in the view snapped by HiRISE, one of the imagers aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Read More Technology NASA’s Webb, Curiosity Named in TIME’s Best Inventions Hall of Fame The most powerful space telescope ever built and the car-size roving science lab on Mars are among 25 of the most iconic inventions the magazine has covered in the past quarter century. Read More Robotics NASA JPL Unveils Rover Operations Center for Moon, Mars Missions The center leverages AI along with JPL’s unique infrastructure, unrivaled tools, and years of operations expertise to support industry partners developing future planetary surface missions. Read More FEATURED VIDEO Perseverance Breaks Own Rover-Driving Record This video shows the point of view of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover during a record-breaking drive that occurred June 19, 2025. Watch Now Technology New NASA Sensor Goes Hunting for Critical Minerals Called AVIRIS-5, it’s the latest in a long line of sensors pioneered by NASA JPL to survey Earth, the Moon, and other worlds. Read More JPL Life Invention Challenge Brings Student Engineers to NASA JPL Now in its 26th year, the event brings teams of middle and high school students to the lab to compete with home-built contraptions. Read More Technology NASA Selects 2 Instruments for Artemis IV Lunar Surface Science The JPL-led South Pole Seismic Station will enable scientists to characterize the lunar interior structure to better understand geologic processes that affect planetary bodies. Read More Technology NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction Set to launch by May 2027, the spacecraft will study mysteries of the cosmos while also testing the Coronagraph Instrument, a new technology designed and built by JPL. Read More Mars NASA Tests Drones in Death Valley, Preps for Martian Sands and Skies Next-generation drone flight software is just one of 25 technologies for the Red Planet that the space agency funded for development this year. Read More SLICE OF HISTORY New Insight on Old Masters JPL used advanced image processing to enhance art X-rays, revealing hidden paintings in works like a Van Dyke. Full Image Details

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