Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 08, 2012 - Opportunity is continuing the local area survey around the location called Matijevic Hill (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Th
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 07, 2012 - Opportunity has completed approximately half of the local area survey around the location called Matijevic Hill (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Ende
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 07, 2012 - After three months working on Mars time, the team operating NASA Mars rover Curiosity has switched to more regular hours, as planned. A Martian day, called a sol, is about 40 minutes longer
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 05, 2012 - NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, already the longest-working spacecraft ever sent to Mars, will switch to some fresh, redundant equipment next week that has not been used since before launch in 2001.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 05, 2012 - NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere. Learning what happened to the Martian atmosphere wil
Paris (ESA) Nov 02, 2012 - On 6 June, the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express revisited the Argyre basin as featured in our October release, but this time aiming at Nereidum Montes, some 380 km northeast of Ho
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2012 - On Sol 84 (Oct. 31, 2012), the Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture the set of thumbnail images stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait. This sel
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 31, 2012 - NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity on Sol 82 (Oct. 29, 2012) used its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to photograph the diverse rocks in the Rocknest area and prepared for an overnight analysis of a soil s
Mexico City, Mexico (SPX) Oct 31, 2012 - Millions of years ago fire and water forged the gypsum rocks locked in at Cuatro Cienegas, a Mexican valley similar to the Martian crater where NASA's Rover Curiosity roams. A team of researchers ha
Tucson AAZ (SPX) Oct 31, 2012 - NASA's Curiosity rover has taken its first bites out of the Martian surface and used the materials scooped up, sieved and portioned to cleanse the palate of the rover's sample collection system of a
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 31, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii. The minerals were iden
Washington (UPI) Oct 27, 2012 - Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner says he believes NASA's Mars mission is a waste of money that could be used for saving our planet.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 26, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the mission's 78th sol (Oct. 24, 2012) to view soil material on the rover's observation tray. The observations will help asses
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 26, 2012 - Opportunity is continuing a local area survey around the location called Matijevic Hill (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Th
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shook a scoopful of dusty sand inside its sample-handling mechanism on Sol 75 (Oct. 21, 2012) as the third scrubbing of interior surfaces of the mechanism. The rove
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 23, 2012 - Mars is clearly much smaller than Earth, but it can still come up with impressive superlatives. Several landscape features have unquestionably enormous dimensions - at over 21 kilometres in height,
