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
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
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) 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.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 21, 2013 - A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great detail. The first NASA-produced
Oxford, UK (SPX) Jun 21, 2013 - Differences between Martian meteorites and rocks examined by a NASA rover can be explained if Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere 4000 million years ago - well before the rise of atmospheric oxygen o
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 19, 2013 - On sols 3332 and 3333 (June and June 9, 2013) , Opportunity performed a 'touch 'n go' two-sol plan, using the robotic arm on the first sol to take Microscopic Imager (MI) images and position the Alp
Paris (ESA) Jun 19, 2013 - ESA's mission to Mars in 2016 has entered the final stage of construction with the signature of a contract with Thales Alenia Space at the Paris Air and Space Show. ExoMars will fly two missio
Oxford, England (UPI) Jun 19, 2013 - A British scientist says new findings suggest Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere more than a billion years before Earth developed its own.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 14, 2013 - Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall not just once each day, but twice. We see a temperature max
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 13, 2013 - NASA research indicates that hunks of frozen carbon dioxide - or dry ice - may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go.
Manoa HI (SPX) Jun 13, 2013 - Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa NASA Astrobiology Institute (UHNAI) have discovered high concentrations of boron in a Martian meteorite. When present in its oxidized form (borate)
NASA says its Mars Curiosity rover will finish up its scientific investigations in its initial landing area -- working in an area smaller than a football field -- and enter a "distance-driving" mode ... but don't get too excited.
Washington (AFP) June 7, 2013 - Scientists on Friday called NASA's Opportunity rover gimpy and arthritic, but hailed its new discoveries about early water on Mars made almost 10 years after it was launched toward the Red Planet.
Star City, Russia (AFP) June 07, 2013 - Russia's Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to go to space, said on Friday she was ready to score another coup and fly to Mars, even if it would be just a one-way trip.
