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
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
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
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.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2013 - Opportunity is continuing her push to reach Solander Point, still over 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) away. The rover drove only two of the last seven days (sols) due to the long holiday weekend.
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.
Paris (ESA) Jun 07, 2013 - Dramatic flood events carved this impressive channel system on Mars covering 1.55 million square kilometres, shown here in a stunning new mosaic from ESA's Mars Express. The mosaic, which feat
Paris (ESA) Jun 06, 2013 - A swirling mound of ice riddled with dark spiral troughs crowns the north pole of Mars, seen here in a new mosaic from ESA's Mars Express. The mosaic comprises 57 separate images taken by the
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 06, 2013 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission is approaching its biggest turning point since landing its rover, Curiosity, inside Mars' Gale Crater last summer. Curiosity is finishing investigations
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 04, 2013 - The first surface science results from the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission have provided the most definitive evidence yet of an ancient stream flow on Mars. This is the first confirmation of
