Eugene OR (SPX) Jul 23, 2014 - Soil deep in a crater dating to some 3.7 billion years ago contains evidence that Mars was once much warmer and wetter, says University of Oregon geologist Gregory Retallack, based on images and dat
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jul 23, 2014 - India is ramping up for a follow-up mission to Mars between 2017 and 2020 which will be scientific in scope, the chairman for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said. The final
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jul 22, 2014 - Scientists in the United States have produced a new map of Mars that experts say is unprecedented in detail and reveals previously unknown information about the Red Planet. On Monday, the US
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2014 - Flashes appear on a baseball-size Martian rock in a series of images taken Saturday, July 12 by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the arm of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover. The flashes occurr
Phoenix AZ (SPX) Jul 18, 2014 - A heat-sensing camera designed at Arizona State University has provided data to create the most detailed global map yet made of Martian surface properties. The map uses data from the Thermal Emissio
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 16, 2014 - This rock encountered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is an iron meteorite called Lebanon, similar in shape and luster to iron meteorites found on Mars by the previous generation of rovers, Spirit
Reston VA (SPX) Jul 15, 2014 - Seasonal carbon dioxide frost, not liquid water, is the main driver in forming gullies on Mars today, according to a recent U.S. Geological Survey study that relied on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orb
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 15, 2014 - NASA Mars rover Curiosity has driven out of the ellipse, approximately 4 miles wide and 12 miles long (7 kilometers by 20 kilometers), that was mapped as safe terrain for its 2012 landing inside Gal
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2014 - Repeated high-resolution observations made by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) indicate the gullies on Mars' surface are primarily formed by the seasonal freezing of carbon dioxide, not liqu
Paris (ESA) Jul 11, 2014 - The surface of Mars is pocked and scarred with giant impact craters and rocky ridges, as shown in this new image from ESA's Mars Express that borders the giant Hellas basin in the planet's southern
Paris (SPX) Jul 09, 2014 - Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has just completed the production of the two heat shields for the first European ExoMars mission in 2016. These shields will prote
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2014 - Opportunity is exploring south along the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is currently surveying a region where orbital data suggests the presence of aluminum-hydroxyl clay minerals. On
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - In chambers that mimic Mars' conditions, researchers have shown how small amounts of liquid water could form on the planet despite its below-freezing temperatures. Liquid water is an essential ingre
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 01, 2014 - NASA may not be planning to put a human on Mars until the 2030s, but the agency's top scientist said colonizing the planet is a key part of its agenda - as well as its search for extraterrestrial li
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - 3,500 million years ago the Martian crater Gale, through which the NASA rover Curiosity is currently traversing, was covered with glaciers, mainly over its central mound. Very cold liquid water also
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 01, 2014 - NASA representatives participated in a media teleconference to discuss the June 28, 2014 near-space test flight of the agency's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), which occurred off the coas
