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
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
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
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 26, 2013 - After returning to the location called 'Kirkwood,' Opportunity completed a busy contact investigation of the mysterious 'newberry' spherules seen there. On Sol 3248 (March 13, 2013), using the robot
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
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 22, 2013 - The positions of the planets next month will mean diminished communications between Earth and NASA's spacecraft at Mars. Mars will be passing almost directly behind the sun, from Earth's persp
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has returned to active status and is on track to resume science investigations, following two days in a precautionary standby status, safe mode. Next steps will i
The Woodlands TX (SPX) Mar 21, 2013 - When it comes to examining the surface of rocks on Mars with a high-powered laser, five is a magic number for Los Alamos National Laboratory postdoctoral researcher Nina Lanza. During a poster sessi
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 20, 2013 - For the first time, two Russian cosmonauts simulated a manually controlled landing from the orbit on Mars after they spent half a year in the space, a deputy head of the Russian Space Training Cente
