Moscow (Voice of Russia) Feb 04, 2014 - Dr. Gernot Groomer from Austria has designed a spacesuit for walking on Mars. It takes him three hours to put it on. The suit is made from 10,000 parts and designed for the most treacherous environm
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2014 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover reached the edge of a dune on Jan. 30 and photographed the valley on the other side, to aid assessment of whether to cross the dune. Curiosity is on a southwestward
Paris (ESA) Feb 04, 2014 - The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter module consisting of the spacecraft structure, thermal control and propulsion systems was handed over by OHB System to Thales Alenia Space France at a ceremony held in
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2014 - A planet's atmosphere can up and disappear. Now a satellite is approaching Mars to tell us how. The satellite is MAVEN: Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN). As NASA's first spacecraft dev
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Feb 04, 2014 - The Curiosity Mars rover vehicle has damaged one of its wheels against a sharp rock. It happened when the rover was going through dunes to Aeolis, the central peak of the Gale crater. Since on
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 31, 2014 - Russian scientists have proposed an instrument for an upcoming NASA Mars rover to search for underground water that could support life on the Red Planet, a lead scientist at the institute that submi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2014 - The team operating NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is considering a path across a small sand dune to reach a favorable route to science destinations. A favorable route would skirt some terrain wit
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 31, 2014 - Russian Anastasia Stepanova is through to the second round of applicant selection for the Mars One program. Anastasia, a Moscow resident, could end up among the 20 finalists that will embark on a on
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 29, 2014 - This spring, NASA will be paying cautious attention to a comet that could put on a barnstorming show at Mars on Oct. 19, 2014. On that date, comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring will buzz Mars about 10 tim
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 29, 2014 - A device created by Russian scientists is bidding for a chance to travel to Mars aboard NASA's Mars 2020 rover. In about five months or so, it will be clear whether NORD, the brainchild of the Mosco
St Louis MI (SPX) Jan 27, 2014 - Ten years ago, on Jan. 24, 2004, the Opportunity rover landed on a flat plain in the southern highlands of the planet Mars and rolled into an impact crater scientists didn't even know existed. The m
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2014 - Researchers supported by NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) program are designing algorithms and instruments that could help future robotic missions make their
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 27, 2014 - Some of the oldest minerals ever analysed by NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover show that around four billion years ago Mars had liquid water so fresh it could have supported life. The findings wer
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - NASA has received 58 proposals for science and exploration technology instruments to fly aboard the agency's next Mars rover in 2020, twice the usual number submitted for instrument competitions in
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 24, 2014 - New findings from rock samples collected and examined by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity have confirmed an ancient wet environment that was milder and older than the acidic and oxidizing c
Washington (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - A strange rock that looks like a jelly doughnut has appeared on Mars, and scientists are closer to figuring out how it got there, a top NASA expert said Thursday.
