Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 25, 2013 - Opportunity is ascending 'Solander Point' at the rim of 'Endeavour Crater.' The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production. Opportunity is experiencing the p
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2013 - Almost 40 years ago, two NASA probes on the surface of Mars scooped the soil in search of signs of microbes. The results that came back from the twin Viking missions were, to say the least, ambiguou
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Nov 25, 2013 - Much like the Grand Canyon, Nanedi Valles snakes across the Martian surface suggesting that liquid water once crossed the landscape, according to a team of researchers who believe that molecular hyd
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2013 - Science observations by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have been suspended for a few days while engineers run tests to check possible causes of a voltage change detected on Nov. 17. The vehicle
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Nov 22, 2013 - As NASA prepares to launch a new Martian probe, a Florida State University scientist has uncovered what may be the first recognized example of ancient Martian crust. The work of Munir Humayun - a pr
Paris (AFP) Nov 20, 2013 - A meteorite found in the Sahara last year by Bedouin tribesmen is a rock from Mars, revealing that the Red Planet's crust formed 4.4 billion years ago, scientists reported on Wednesday.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2013 - A recent commentary paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience argues that planetary protection policies and practices designed to guard solar system bodies from biological contamination from
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Nov 19, 2013 - In the November issue of Icarus, researchers from LSU's Department of Geology and Geophysics and Stony Brook's Department of Geosciences assess the details of halogen variability and an unusual proc
Atlanta GA (SPX) Nov 19, 2013 - Researchers now have stronger evidence of granite on Mars and a new theory for how the granite - an igneous rock common on Earth - could have formed there, according to a new study. The findings su
Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 19, 2013 - Earlier this year Dennis Wingo wrote a very interesting piece for SpaceRef.com on Dennis Tito's announced plan to send two space passengers on a comm
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Nov 19, 2013 - Researchers develop algorithm to identify individual grains in planetary regolith. Instruments on the Curiosity Mars rover not only measure the chemistry of rocks, elemental abundances of soils and
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 18, 2013 - As NASA prepares for next week's launch of the agency's next Mars-bound spacecraft, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN), actor LeVar Burton shares the excitement of the mission in a n
Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Nov 18, 2013 - NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, was launched Monday at 1:28 pm ET from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alli
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2013 - Features on Mars important to the missions of NASA's two active Mars rovers are now called Murray Ridge and Murray Buttes, in honor of influential planetary scientist Bruce Murray (1931-2013).
Cape Canaveral (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - NASA on Monday launched its unmanned MAVEN spacecraft toward Mars to study the Red Planet's atmosphere for clues as to why Earth's neighbor lost its warmth and water over time.
Washington (AFP) Nov 16, 2013 - What happened to the water on Mars? How did the Red Planet's atmosphere become so thin over time? NASA's MAVEN probe is scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to find out.
