Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2013 - The bit of the rock-sampling drill on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity left its mark on a Martian rock this weekend during brief testing of the tool's percussive action. The successful activity, ca
Paris (ESA) Feb 06, 2013 - Nearly 90% of Mars' surface has been mapped by the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express, which celebrates ten years since launch this June. The mosaic comprises 2702 individual
Moscow (UPI) Feb 4, 2013 - Russian scientists have proposed an instrument for an upcoming NASA Mars rover to search for underground water that could support life on the Red Planet.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2013 - The following statement from the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences was prepared in collaboration with the Planetary Society, the American Geophysical Union's Planetary
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has placed its drill onto a series of four locations on a Martian rock and pressed down on it with the rover's arm, in preparation for using the drill in coming days.
Providence RI (SPX) Jan 31, 2013 - Networks of narrow ridges found in impact craters on Mars appear to be the fossilized remnants of underground cracks through which water once flowed, according to a new analysis by researchers from
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jan 29, 2013 - Controllers of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity say they are considering a smoother path across a small sand dune to reach a favorable route to science destinations.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 25, 2013 - Spring is a dynamic season on the dunes surrounding Mars' north pole. When frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice, deposited as a winter ice cap on Mars sublimates - changes directly from a solid to a ga
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 25, 2013 - Scientists believe that a large crater, which has been discovered on Mars, might have been a lake several billion years ago. A space vehicle, which NASA sent to explore Mars, has discovered layers o
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2013 - Opportunity is on the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater, performing an in-situ (contact) science investigation of veins in the light-toned outcrop Whitewater Lake. O
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2013 - Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter see seasonal changes on far-northern Martian sand dunes caused by warming of a winter blanket of frozen carbon dioxide. Earth has no naturally fr
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has for the first time used the camera on its arm to take photos at night, illuminated by white lights and ultraviolet lights on the instrument. Scientists used the
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 23, 2013 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, one of the twin rovers that bounced to airbag-cushioned safe landings on Mars nine years ago this week, is currently examining veined rocks on the rim of a
Paris (ESA) Jan 23, 2013 - ESA's Mars Express imaged the striking upper part of the Reull Vallis region of Mars with its high-resolution stereo camera last year. Reull Vallis, the river-like structure in these images, is beli
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 22, 2013 - The subsurface environment on Mars may hold clues to the origin of life, scientists argue in a recently published research article led by Planetary Science Institute's Joseph Michalski. A large frac
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2013 - Opportunity is on the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater, now engaged in in-situ (contact) science investigation of veins in the light-toned outcrop Whitewater Lake, a plac
