Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 19, 2013 - When NASA's MAVEN mission begins its journey to the Red Planet later this year, it will be equipped with a special instrument to take the planet back in time. That instrument is the Neutral Gas and
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 18, 2013 - The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer. One kilometer is about 0.62 mile. The drive covered about
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 18, 2013 - An image from Mars orbit taken 10 years after the launch of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the long-lived rover on its trek to a new destination on Mars. The color image taken
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 16, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drove 135 feet (41 meters) on Tuesday, July 9, the third drive of a journey of many months from the Glenelg area to Mount Sharp. Last week, the mission finished i
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jul 16, 2013 - The primary task of the new Mars rover, which NASA is to send to the Red Planet in 2020, is to find traces of life on Mars. The designers will borrow the general design and the undercarriage from th
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2013 - Opportunity is in good health. On Sol 3351 (June 27, 2013), the rover drove over 393 feet (over 120 meters), heading toward 'Solander Point' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Also on that sol, a set o
Cambridge, Mass. (UPI) Jul 11, 2013 - U.S. researchers, in a step toward analyzing Mars for signs of life, say they've shown a gene-sequencing chip can survive space radiation.
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 10, 2013 - The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for future human exploration of the Red P
New Delhi (IANS) Jul 10, 2013 - Immediately after the launch of India's first navigation satellite, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) officials said the space agency is gearing up for PSLV's silver jubilee mission, which w
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 10, 2013 - With drives on July 4 and July 7, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has departed its last science target in the Glenelg area and commenced a many-month overland journey to the base of the mission's main
Washington (AFP) July 09, 2013 - The next robotic rover to explore Mars in 2020 should scour the surface of the red planet more closely than ever for signs of past life, a NASA science team said Tuesday.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 03, 2013 - When NASA's Mars rover Opportunity blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2003, many onlookers expected a relatively short mission. Landing on Mars is risky business. The Red Planet has a long history o
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jul 01, 2013 - A film director looking for a location where a movie about Mars could be shot might consider the Atacama Desert, a strip of land on the coast of South America west of the Andes that is one of the ha
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 01, 2013 - Opportunity is in good health, although the robotic arm elbow joint potentiometer is acting up. On Sol 3346 (June 22, 2013), the rover continued the trek toward 'Solander Point' with a 295-foo
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 27, 2013 - Approaching its 10th anniversary of leaving Earth, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is on the move again, trekking to a new study area still many weeks away. The destination, called
Washington (UPI) Jun 24, 2013 - For exactly one year now, the beloved Mars rover Curiosity has delivered knowledge to NASA scientists and joy to science lovers across the globe.
