Moscow (UPI) Apr 12, 2013 - Russian space enthusiasts say a NASA orbiter may have captured images of pieces of a Soviet spacecraft that made a soft landing on Mars more than 40 years ago.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2013 - Opportunity is in position for the coming three-week solar conjunction period at 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. This location is the last in-situ (contact) target before the rover depar
Paris (UPI) Apr 11, 2013 - A European spacecraft captured an image of twin craters on Mars showing evidence of dramatic underground events possibly involving ice, scientists say.
Vienna, Austria (JPL) Apr 09, 2013 - Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what's left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate. Rover team members reported diverse findings at the Eu
Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2013 - Registration is open for teams seeking to compete in the $1.5 million energy storage competition known as the Night Rover Challenge, sponsored by NASA and the Cleantech Open of Palo Alto, Calif.
Paris (ESA) Apr 09, 2013 - This is the first entry in the ExoMars 2016 Test Campaign Journal, a series of articles covering the main events during the development, integration and testing of the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and th
Washington (UPI) Apr 7, 2013 - In documenting a new region of Mars, NASA's rover Curiosity came across a rock that looks very much like Australia.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 05, 2013 - An instrument that will measure the composition of Mars' upper atmosphere has been integrated into NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. MAVEN has a scheduled launch date
Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 04, 2013 - These seven HiRISE images were acquired between August 12, 2012 and January 13, 2013, and show distinct changes in the parachute (at bottom, attached to the backshell at top). In the first four imag
KTH The Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Apr 10, 2013 As space exploration inches closer to Mars, research into space radiation will become increasingly critical, says ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang, who was intr
Erfoud, Morocco (SPX) Apr 03, 2013 - Last month in the northern Sahara desert in Morocco, an international group of scientists conducted a series of experiments in preparation for future human missions to Mars. With 100 members f
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 01, 2013 - This location, called 'Big Nickel,' is the last in-situ (contact) target before the rover departs from Cape York, once solar conjunction is concluded. Solar conjunction is when the Sun comes b
San Antonio TX (SPX) Apr 01, 2013 - The presence of liquid water at and beneath frozen Alaskan sand dunes during Arctic winter suggests that liquid water could also be temporarily stable (or metastable) at frost-covered sand dunes on
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 28, 2013 - When the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission begins its journey to the Red Planet in 2013, it will carry a sensitive magnetic-field instrument built and tested by a team at NASA's
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 26, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has resumed science investigations after recovery from a computer glitch that prompted the engineers to switch the rover to a redundant main computer on Feb. 28. Th
Paris (ESA) Mar 26, 2013 - ESA's Mars Express has spent nearly ten years imaging the Red Planet, and there are plenty of hidden treasures buried in the mission's rich picture archive. HRSCview is a web interface to the
