Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 - Submarine canyons are a final frontier on planet Earth. There are thousands of these breathtaking geological features hidden within the depths of the ocean - yet scientists have more high-resolution
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 08, 2019 - If you could travel back in time 3.5 billion years, what would Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with NASA's Curiosity rover. Imagine ponds dotting the floor of Gale C
Washington (UPI) Oct 7, 2019 - Data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover suggests Mars once hosted dozens of shallow briny ponds that periodically overflowed and then dried.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 07, 2019 - In this picture from Sept. 28, 2019, engineers and technicians working on the assembly and testing of the Mars 2020 spacecraft look on as a crane lifts the rocket-powered descent stage away from the
Cologne, Germany (SPX) Oct 04, 2019 - Only five centimetres of the Mars 'Mole' are still protruding above the planet's surface, and it is thought that it could have initially driven itself as much as 35 centimetres into the subsurface.
London, UK (Sputnik) Oct 04, 2019 - The United Kingdom has eased sanctions on Russia by amending its Export Control Order 2014 to allow for certain activities necessary for the ExoMars-2020 joint Russia-EU space mission. Articl
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 02, 2019 - Put an ear to the ground on Mars and you'll be rewarded with a symphony of sounds. Granted, you'll need superhuman hearing, but NASA's InSight lander comes equipped with a very special ear.
Washington DC (Sputnik) Sep 23, 2019 - US President Donald Trump on Friday praised the US space program's efforts to return astronauts to the moon by 2024 as tremendous, yet outlined that the ultimate goal is Mars. We're going t
Cologne, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 - In June 2019 the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) captured a number of global images of Mars. The view shown in the main image stretches from the North Pole to the heavily cratered highlands aro
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 20, 2019 - On Earth, plants convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbohydrates and oxygen - food for them and oxygen for us to breathe. There aren't plants on Mars, but there is a lot of CO2. Technology that take
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 20, 2019 - Dust devils, small dusty whirlwinds, have been studied for decades. But, says Brian Jackson, an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Boise State University, the ability of dust devils
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 19, 2019 - It's the final boarding call for you to stow your name on NASA's Mars 2020 rover before it launches to the Red Planet. The Sept. 30 deadline for NASA's Send Your Name to Mars campaign gives the mi
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 17, 2019 - Scientists at TU Dortmund University have generated high-accuracy 3D models of terrain within the landing ellipse of the ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars rover, Rosalind Franklin. The Digital Terrain Models (D
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2019 - Engineers took NASA's Mars 2020 for a spin on Aug. 29, 2019. The 2,300-pound (1,040-kilogram) Martian vehicle was rotated clockwise and counterclockwise at about 1 revolution per minute on what is c
Swindon UK (Sputnik) Sep 09, 2019 - Volcanic Martian meteorites known as nakhlites owe their name to El Nakhla in Egypt, where they first landed on Earth in 1911. Although they hold traces of impact of liquid water on the Martian sur
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 - A key tracer used to estimate how much atmosphere Mars lost can change depending on the time of day and the surface temperature on the Red Planet, according to new observations by NASA-funded scient
