Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 05, 2015 - NASA's next mission to Mars, scheduled to launch one year from today to examine the Red Planet's deep interior and investigate how rocky planets like Earth evolved, now has one specific site under e
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 05, 2015 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is expected to remain stationary for several days of engineering analysis following an onboard fault-protection action on Feb. 27 that halted a process of transferring sa
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 03, 2015 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater near Marathon Valley, a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 492 feet (150 meters) away. The project is preparing to
Granada, Spain (SPX) Mar 02, 2015 - The tunable laser spectrometer in the SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument of the Curiosity robot has unequivocally detected an episodic increase in the concentration of methane in Mars' atmosph
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 27, 2015 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its drill on Tuesday, Feb. 24 to collect sample powder from inside a rock target called Telegraph Peak. The target sits in the upper portion of Pahrump Hills, an
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2015 - The search for life on Mars presents us with many challenges - not the least of which is microbial contamination. How do we ensure that microbes from Earth don't hitchhike all the way to the Red Pla
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2015 - Scientist Pamela Conrad helps give Curiosity a daily to-do list to look for life's building blocks on Mars. In GSFC's continuing series of Conversations With Goddard, Elizabeth Jarrell talks with
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2015 - A new study of emissions from Martian volcanoes suggests there is no activity going on right now, but researchers aren't ruling out recent eruptions. Using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility a
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2015 - This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the Mojave site, where its drill collected the mission's second taste of Mount Sharp. The scene combines dozens of imag
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 24, 2015 - Meet the man who has survived Mars on Earth. Diego Urbina, an Italian-Colombian engineer, was a part of 520-day, record-breaking simulated mission to the Red Planet. He participated in the final sta
Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2015 - Plumes seen reaching high above the surface of Mars are causing a stir among scientists studying the atmosphere on the Red Planet. On two separate occasions in March and April 2012, amateur astronom
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 20, 2015 - NASA'S Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution has completed the first of five deep-dip maneuvers designed to gather measurements closer to the lower end of the Martian upper atmosphere. Durin
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2015 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards Marathon Valley, a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 656 feet (200 meters) away. The project is o
Moscow, Russia (Sputnik) Feb 20, 2015 - One hundred people from around the world have been shortlisted for a mission to Mars. Fifty men and fifty women are all hoping to become the first human beings to walk on the red planet. They
Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2015 - A complex network of isolated hills, ridges and small basins spanning 1400 km on Mars is thought to hide large quantities of water-ice. Phlegra Montes stretches from the Elysium volcanic region at a
