Moscow (Voice of Russia) May 20, 2014 - The first seeds germination experiment is about to be launched on Mars (Mars Plant Experiment, MPX). Greenhouse, small transparent cube, will be attached to the outer surface of the new Mars rover,
Kauai HI (SPX) May 20, 2014 - NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project, a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle, has completed final assembly at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawai
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 19, 2014 - Portions of powdered rock collected by drilling into a sandstone target last week have been delivered to laboratory instruments inside NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, and the rover will soon drive on t
Paris (ESA) May 19, 2014 - A new mosaic from ESA's Mars Express shows a swirling field of dark dunes cascading into sunken pits within a large impact crater. The mosaic was created from two images taken on 7 December 2005 and
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 16, 2014 - This past November, NASA launched the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission in the hope of understanding how and why the planet has been losing its atmosphere over billions of years
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) May 14, 2014 - Primeval lava flows formed the massive canyons and gorge systems on Mars. Water, by contrast, was far too scarce on the red planet to have cut these gigantic valleys into the landscape. This is the
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2014 - Opportunity is exploring south of 'Solander Point' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is approaching a region of aluminum-hydroxyl clay minerals detected from orbit. On Sol 3650 (M
Moscow (Voice of Russia) May 12, 2014 - NASA researchers have proposed depositing a small greenhouse on Mars when the next rover bound for the Red Planet is expected to land in 2021. Experimenting with plant life is another step in the pr
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 09, 2014 - Opportunity is exploring south of Solander Point on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is headed to a region of aluminum-hydroxyl clay minerals detected from orbit. On Sol 3645 (Apr
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 08, 2014 - Portions of rock powder collected by the hammering drill on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from a slab of Martian sandstone will be delivered to the rover's internal instruments. Rover team membe
London (AFP) May 08, 2014 - British planetary scientist Colin Pillinger, the driving force behind the ill-fated Beagle 2 mission to Mars, died on Thursday at the age of 70, his family said.
Houston TX (SPX) May 05, 2014 - In the movies, humans often fear invaders from Mars. These days, scientists are more concerned about invaders to Mars, in the form of micro-organisms from Earth. Three recent scientific papers exami
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 01, 2014 - Opportunity is exploring south of Solander Point on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is headed to a region of clay minerals seen from orbit. Opportunity drove six times on Sols 36
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 01, 2014 - The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover plans to proceed in coming days with the third-ever drilling into a rock on Mars to collect a sample for analysis. The rover used several tools t
Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Apr 29, 2014 - The southern hemisphere of Mars is home to a crater that contains very well-preserved gullies and debris flow deposits. The geomorphological attributes of these landforms provide evidence that they
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 29, 2014 - The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is telling the rover to use several tools this weekend to inspect a sandstone slab being evaluated as a possible drilling target. If this target
