Tallahassee FL (SPX) Aug 29, 2014 - Was Mars - now a cold, dry place - once a warm, wet planet that sustained life? And if so, how long has it been cold and dry? Research underway at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory m
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 26, 2014 - Opportunity is moving south along the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals. More recently, the incidence of Flash memo
New Delhi (XNA) Aug 25, 2014 - India's Mars Orbiter Mission was nine million km away from the red planet and is expected to reach it in 33 days, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said Saturday. Mars Orbiter Mission
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 25, 2014 - Evaluation of a pale, flat Martian rock as the potential next drilling target for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover determined that the rock was not stable enough for safe drilling. The rock, called Bona
Washington (UPI) Aug 22, 2014 - The Internet says thigh bone; NASA scientists say plain old rock.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2014 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the Dust Removal Tool on its robotic arm to brush aside reddish, more-oxidized dust, revealing a gray patch of less-oxidized rock material at a target called Bonanz
Paris (SPX) Aug 21, 2014 - Let's say it straight. Mars is, without any doubt our next step in space exploration, sparking our imagination for many years in spaceflight history. After sending tons of scientific rovers, it's ab
New Rochelle NY (SPX) Aug 20, 2014 - A new ovoid structure discovered in the Nakhla Martian meteorite is made of nanocrystalline iron-rich clay, contains a variety of minerals, and shows evidence of undergoing a past shock event from i
Paris (ESA) Aug 19, 2014 - Final functional testing of Europe's twin Galileo navigation satellites has been completed at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, on track for launch this Thursday. The fuelling of the two satellit
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 18, 2014 - The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has chosen a rock that looks like a pale paving stone as the mission's fourth drilling target, if it passes engineers' evaluation. They call it Bonanz
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2014 - A track about one-third of a mile (500 meters) long on Mars shows where an irregularly shaped boulder careened downhill to its current upright position, seen in a July 3, 2014, image from the High R
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 11, 2014 - Opportunity is moving south along the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a notch observed from orbit to have an abundant clay mineral signature. On Sol 3739 (July
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 07, 2014 - NASA's most advanced roving laboratory on Mars celebrates its second anniversary since landing inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT). During its first ye
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2014 - Russia will create a landing deck and provide a range of unique scientific equipment for a new Russian-European Mars mission known as ExoMars, Daniel Rodionov, a Russian scientific supervisor for th
Moffet Field CA (NASA) Aug 07, 2014 - A robot that can scale the faces of steep cliffs might one day help explore Mars and find signs of life. The latest experiments with this Cliffbot showed it could help examine places otherwise dif
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2014 - As it approaches the second anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is also approaching its first close look at bedrock that is part of Mount Sharp, the layered mountain in the mi
