Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity continues to move forward with assessment and recovery from a memory glitch that affected the rover's A-side computer. Curiosity has two computers that are redundant of o
Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 13, 2013 - Research from the University of Maryland School of Medicine has revealed key features in proteins needed for life to function on Mars and other extreme environments. The researchers, funded by NASA,
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2013 - An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus a
Washington (AFP) March 12, 2013 - Analysis of Mars rocks by the Curiosity rover uncovered the building blocks of life - hydrogen, carbon and oxygen - and evidence the planet could once have supported organisms, NASA said Tuesday.
Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Mar 11, 2013 - Neptec Design Group has signed a contract with Astrium UK Limited for the design and build of navigation cameras for the ExoMars Rover. The ExoMars Programme has the goals of understanding the
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 11, 2013 - New maps of the subsurface of Mars show for the first time buried channels below the surface of the red planet. Mars is considered to have been cold and dry over the past 2.5 billion years, but thes
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary safe mode to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week. Resumption of full operations is anticipated by n
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Mar 7, 2013 - NASA says the computers on its Mars rover Curiosity have been put to sleep to wait out a solar storm bombarding the Red Planet.
Washington (AFP) March 5, 2013 - NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, should be running at full capacity next week, after a memory glitch set the robot back.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 04, 2013 - A unique window of opportunity for humankind will open in January 2018, and the Inspiration Mars Foundation intends to seize it, announcing plans to pursue a challenging manned mission to Mars and b
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 04, 2013 - Opportunity is conducting the post-walkabout in-situ (contact) science campaign at different locations around the inboard edge of 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3230 (Feb.
Washington (AFP) March 2, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been temporarily put into safe mode, as scientists monitoring from Earth try to fix a computer glitch, the US space agency said.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2013 - The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been active. The intentional swap
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 28, 2013 - Two compact laboratories inside NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have ingested portions of the first sample of rock powder ever collected from the interior of a rock on Mars. Curiosity science team memb
Washington (AFP) Feb 27, 2013 - The world's first space tourist, US multimillionaire Dennis Tito, unveiled plans Wednesday to send a manned mission to Mars and back, targeting a launch date less than five years away.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2013 - Opportunity is conducting the post-walkabout in-situ (contact) science campaign at different locations around the inboard edge of 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3214 (Feb.
