Houston TX (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 - Joanna Clark has been interested in geology ever since she was a child. Today, the University of Houston doctoral student is turning that curiosity into a career and getting noticed by NASA, which a
Paris (ESA) Dec 16, 2019 - ESA's Mars Express has captured detailed views of the small, scarred and irregularly shaped moon Phobos from different angles during a unique flyby. Mars has two moons: Phobos and the smaller
Denver CO (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 - The capsule-shaped aeroshell that will protect NASA's Mars 2020 rover was delivered to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida. yesterday. Built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], the aeroshell will encap
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 - Researchers have created the first map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of a planet besides Earth, using data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft that were collected during the last two years. T
Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 - A new paper in Science documents for the first time the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of a planet, 120 to 300 kilometers above the surface. The findings are based on local
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 - A type of Martian aurora first identified by NASA's MAVEN spacecraft in 2016 is actually the most common form of aurora occurring on the Red Planet, according to new results from the mission. The au
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 12, 2019 - NASA has big plans for returning astronauts to the Moon in 2024, a stepping stone on the path to sending humans to Mars. But where should the first people on the Red Planet land? A new paper p
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2019 - Curiosity won't be NASA's only active Mars rover for much longer. Next summer, Mars 2020 will be headed for the Red Planet. While the newest rover borrows from Curiosity's design, they aren't twins:
London, UK (The Conversation) Dec 11, 2019 - Some landslides on Mars seem to defy an important law of physics. Long, runout landslides are formed by huge volumes of rock and soil moving downslope, largely due to the force of gravity. But the
Edinburgh UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2019 - The search for evidence of life on Mars could be helped by fresh insights into ancient rocks on Earth. Research which suggests that structures previously thought to be fossils may, in fact, be
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 27, 2019 - Dust storms are common on Mars. But every decade or so, something unpredictable happens: A series of runaway storms breaks out, covering the entire planet in a dusty haze. Last year, a fleet o
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 - As NASA continues preparations for the summer 2020 Florida launch of its Mars 2020 rover, including the recent completion of testing the spacecraft in Mars-like conditions, public safety remains a t
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 - During ice ages on Earth, the retreating ice sheets greatly altered the landscape of the continents. Over the past two-and-a-half million years, Central Europe alone has experienced five massive gla
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 - People visiting and living on Mars have been the subjects of science fiction stories, engineering studies and tourist proposals since Gustavus Pope's adventure story, Journey to Mars in 1894. Miss
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2019 - As any geologist worth his or her salt will tell you, there are rocks, and then there are rocks. Next July, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are launching rovers to Mars that will search for
Huailai, China (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 - China on Thursday completed a test of its Mars exploration lander ahead of Beijing's first mission to the red planet slated for 2020.
