Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 05, 2014 - The team operating NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission successfully completed, on Feb. 19, 2014, the initial post-launch power-on and checkout of the spacecraft's Electra U
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 05, 2014 - Opportunity is exploring 'Murray Ridge' on Solander Point, part of the rim of Endeavour Crater. Investigation continued on 'Anchor Point,' Sol 3581 (Feb. 19, 2014) through Sol 3583 (Feb. 21, 2
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 03, 2014 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has reached an area where orbital images had piqued researchers' interest in patches of ground with striations all oriented in a similar direction. A close-up look
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2014 - Terrain that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is now crossing is as smooth as team members had anticipated based on earlier images from orbit. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, the rover covered 329 feet (100.3
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2014 - A new image from a telescopic camera orbiting Mars shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at work on Murray Ridge, without any new impact craters nearby. The Feb. 14 view from the H
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 19, 2014 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is continuing its traverse toward enticing science destinations after climbing over a dune spanning a gap in a ridge. The rover covered 135 feet (41.1 meters) on Fe
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2014 - It's almost five times easier to leave Mars than it is to leave Earth or Venus. At least, that's the case for many particles in the upper atmosphere. Mars' upper atmosphere is swarming with atoms, i
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2014 - This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows where a rock called Pinnacle Island (lower left corner) had been before it appeared in front of the rover in early January 2014. Ima
Chicago (AFP) Feb 15, 2014 - NASA scientists were finally able to explain the origin of the mysterious rock shaped like a jelly doughnut that appeared near the rover Opportunity in early January.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 14, 2014 - NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has tweaked its orbit to help scientists make the first systematic observations of how morning fogs, clouds and surface frost develop in different seasons on the Red P
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 14, 2014 - Nearly everything we know about the radiation exposure on a trip to Mars we have learned in the past 200 days. For much longer, we have known that space is a risky place to be, radiation being one o
Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 14, 2014 - For the first time since the Viking Mars mission of the 1970s, which ended more than a generation ago, scientists will soon begin systematic observations of Mars from orbit at times of day around lo
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 14, 2014 - Opportunity is up on Solander Point, part of the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover continues to explore the region called Cook Haven. The rock named Pinnacle Island continues to be a ta
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Feb 13, 2014 - A spacecraft built for the Russian-European ExoMars project will begin its voyage to Mars in January 2016, Director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Lev Zelyony sai
Atlanta GA (SPX) Feb 13, 2014 - Martian experts have known since 2011 that mysterious, possibly water-related streaks appear and disappear on the planet's surface. Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D. candidate Lujendra Ojha disc
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2014 - NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars have returned clues for understanding seasonal features that are the strongest indication of possible liquid water that may exist today on the Red Planet. The fea
