Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2018 - You don't need wheels to explore Mars. After touching down in November, NASA's InSight spacecraft will spread its solar panels, unfold a robotic arm ... and stay put. Unlike the space agency's rover
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2018 - The dust storm on Mars has ended with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site down to around typical values of 1.0 to 1.1. No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June
Paris (ESA) Oct 22, 2018 - Imagine you are on Mars and you stumble upon an interesting rock. The colours, the shape of the crystals and the place where you find it all tell you: there is more to it than meets the eye. Tool in
Paris (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 - Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial life that emerged and flourished on Earth billions of years ago, researchers reported Monday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2018 - If you've ever played the claw machine at an arcade, you know how hard it can be to maneuver the metal hand to pick up a prize. Imagine trying to play that game when the claw is on Mars, the objec
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 16, 2018 - Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and deliberate the future landing site for NASA
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2018 - The dust storm on Mars has effectively ended with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site down to around 1.0 to 1.1, values are typical for storm-free conditions this time of year. No si
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2018 - When John Campanella's friend wanted his beloved Ferrari painted, he knew exactly who to call. After all, Campanella had been painting, pinstriping and even airbrushing flames on to cars, motorcycle
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 - A new investigative technique has shown the latitudinal distribution of ice-rich landforms on Mars. This large-scale study enables future, more detailed investigations to study several young deposit
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 04, 2018 - Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, this week commanded the agency's Curiosity rover to switch to its second computer. The switch will enable engineers to do a det
Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2018 - NASA engineers have switched the Curiosity rover's brains, ceding control of the spacecraft to a backup computer. The move will allow engineers to analyze Curiosity's main processor, which has been unable to function properly for a few weeks.
Orlando FL (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 - The University of Central Florida is selling Martian dirt, $20 a kilogram plus shipping. This is not fake news. A team of UCF astrophysicists has developed a scientifically based, standardized
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 01, 2018 - No signal from Opportunity has been heard in over 115 sols, since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). It is expected that Opportunity has experienced a low-power fault. Perhaps, a mission clock fault an
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 - Selecting a landing site for a rover headed to Mars is a lengthy process that normally involves large committees of scientists and engineers. These committees typically spend several years weighing
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 27, 2018 - There is no shortage of eyeballs, human and robotic, pointed at Mars. Scientists are constantly exploring the Red Planet from telescopes on Earth, plus the six spacecraft circling the planet from it
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 26, 2018 - The weird shapes and colors of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have inspired a long-standing debate about their origins. The dark faces of the moons resemble the primitive asteroids o
