Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 28, 2013 - Opportunity is at the base of 'Solander Point' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is scouting a large boulder field. On Sol 3398 (Aug. 15, 2013), Opportunity drove 75 feet (22.8 meters)
Washington (RIA Novosti) Aug 22, 2013 - A consortium of 12 space agencies, including NASA and Roscosmos, on Tuesday released a blueprint for future space exploration, which proposes using the International Space Station (ISS) as a steppin
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 20, 2013 - Opportunity is at the base of Solander Point on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned in front of a large rock, called Tick Bush for in-situ (contact) investigation with the
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is studying the area of contact between a rock layer formed in acidic wet conditions long ago and an even older one that may be from a more neutral wet environment.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 13, 2013 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is switching from one motion-sensing device to a duplicate unit onboard. The veteran orbiter relies on this inertial measurement unit (IMU) for information about changes in orientation.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 12, 2013 - Opportunity is at the base of 'Solander Point' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover arrived at the edge of Solander Point with a series of drives on Sols 3385 and 3387 (Aug. 1 and Aug. 3, 2013)
Moscow (SPX) Aug 09, 2013 - A NASA website containing detailed images sent by a high-resolution camera orbiting Mars is now available in Russian, thanks to a 60-strong team of volunteer translators, a spokesman for the proje
Providence RI (SPX) Aug 07, 2013 - Geologists from Brown University have developed a promising new explanation for a mysterious type of crater on the surface on Mars. Double-layered ejecta craters or DLEs, like other craters, are sur
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 07, 2013 - The total distance driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity passed the one-mile mark a few days before the first anniversary of the rover's landing on Mars. This map traces where Curiosity drove
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 07, 2013 - NASA's next spacecraft going to Mars arrived Friday, Aug. 2, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and is now perched in a cleanroom to begin final preparations for its November launch.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2013 - NASA's Curiosity rover will mark one year on Mars next week and has already achieved its main science goal of revealing ancient Mars could have supported life. The mobile laboratory also is guiding
Providence, R.I. (UPI) Aug 5, 2013 - U.S. geologists say they've come up with a new explanation for a mysterious double-layer type of crater observed on Mars, and it's all about ice and impacts.
Washington, District Of Columbia (AFP) Aug 04, 2013 - The dazzling success of NASA's rover Curiosity has paved the way for a human conquest of Mars, scientists say, almost one year after the groundbreaking probe first touched down on the Red Planet.
Washington, District Of Columbia (AFP) Aug 03, 2013 - Around 40 volunteers from thousands who applied for a one-way ticket to Mars gathered in the US capital Saturday to hear from the man behind plans to colonize the Red Planet.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2013 - Opportunity has arrived in the region near the base of 'Solander Point.' At the current location, the rover is just a few drives from making landfall on the point. However, the science team wi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2013 - An image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and the wheel tracks from its landing site to the Glenelg area where the rover worked for the first half of 2013.
