Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 06, 2016 - The NASA spacecraft that was launched 15 years ago this week carried the name 2001 Mars Odyssey and the hopes for reviving a stymied program of exploring the Red Planet. Back-to-back failures
Paris (ESA) Apr 06, 2016 - Mars Express has been orbiting the Red Planet for 12 years. While its controllers know the spacecraft inside out, additional valuable insights may well be hidden within the mounds of telemetry the m
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 06, 2016 - The bombardment of Mars some 4 billion years ago by comets and asteroids as large as West Virginia likely enhanced climate conditions enough to make the planet more conducive to life, at least for a
Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 05, 2016 - A new explanation of how gypsum forms may change the way we process this important building material, as well as allow us to interpret past water availability on other planets such as Mars. The work
Kolkata, India (IANS) Apr 05, 2016 - Why wait for a million-dollar ticket to Mars when you can have an inter-planetary experience a la Oscar nominated blockbuster The Martian right here in India? One simply needs to head over t
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 04, 2016 - NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is driving to an alternative hillside target after a climb on the steepest slope ever tackled by any Mars rover. Opportunity could not quite get within reach
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 01, 2016 - What might it look like if you were walking around on Mars? A group of researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, has been working on methods to take this question from t
Austin TX (SPX) Apr 01, 2016 - New research has found that wind carved massive mounds of more than a mile high on Mars over billions of years. Their location helps pin down when water on the Red Planet dried up during a global cl
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 28, 2016 - Opportunity is exploring the south side of 'Marathon Valle' located on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover is up on the slopes of 'Knudsen Ridge'. The objective is to identify specific outc
Paris (ESA) Mar 28, 2016 - Nestled within the fractured rim of a vast impact basin on Mars are valley floors dusted in frost. At 2200 km wide and up to 9 km deep, the Hellas Basin is the largest impact crater on Mars. This s
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 28, 2016 - True to its purpose, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, the spacecraft that began orbiting Mars a decade ago, has delivered huge advances in knowledge about the Red Planet. According
Washington (UPI) Mar 26, 2016 - Though still 20-plus years in the offing, NASA officials say their first manned mission to Mars would aim to create a permanent operations base that could be revisited.
Paris (ESA) Mar 24, 2016 - Following a spectacular liftoff, ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is performing flawlessly en route to the Red Planet. The ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and the Schiaparelli entry, de
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 24, 2016 - Opportunity is exploring within 'Marathon Valley' on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover is up on the slopes of 'Knudsen Ridge.' The primary objective is to examine specific outcrop types for evi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 22, 2016 - A new map of Mars' gravity made with three NASA spacecraft is the most detailed to date, providing a revealing glimpse into the hidden interior of the Red Planet. Gravity maps allow us to see
Darmstadt, Germany (UPI) Mar 18, 2016 - The first half of the ExoMars mission began this week with the launch of the Trace Gas Orbiter from Kazakhstan.
