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 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
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 20, 2013 - Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team will present more than two dozen posters and talks next week during the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlan
The Woodlands TX (SPX) Mar 20, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has seen evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled rock. Last week, the rover's science team announ
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
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 20, 2013 - NASA's next Mars mission is giving students and the public worldwide an opportunity to have a personal connection with space exploration through a new education and public outreach effort called the
Washington (AFP) March 19, 2013 - NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, is back on active status Tuesday, after a memory glitch set the robot back.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 18, 2013 - Opportunity is completing the in-situ (contact) investigation of the terrain on the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of 'Endeavour Crater' before departing to the south. Flash memory issue
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Mar 18, 2013 - NASA says its Mars Curiosity rover that put itself into safe mode because of a software issue is expected to resume science investigations in a few days.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 18, 2013 - Rising above the present location of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the United States, Mount Sharp is featured in new imagery from the rover.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 18, 2013 - The six science instruments that comprise the Particles and Fields Package that will characterize the solar wind and ionosphere of Mars have been integrated aboard NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatil
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 15, 2013 - The northern hemisphere of Mars is a single, massive lowland with only a few distinctive landscape features. Frequent, intense dust and sand storms are recurrent here over the course of the seasons.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 15, 2013 - Opportunity is exploring different locations around the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3235 (Feb. 28, 2013), the rover experienced a warm reset triggered by the f
Paris (AFP) March 14, 2013 - The European Space Agency (ESA) said it signed a deal on Thursday with its Russian counterpart to launch two unmanned missions to Mars, a quest that was rocked by a US pullout last year.
