Washington (AFP) Oct 11, 2012 - A rock analyzed by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has a surprising and more varied composition that resembles rare rocks from the bowels of our planet, the US space agency said Thursday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2012 - Curiosity's first scooping activity appeared to go well on Oct. 7. Subsequently, the rover team decided to refrain from using the rover's robotic arm on Oct. 8 due to the detection of a bright
Beijing (AFP) Oct 10, 2012 - China is planning to collect samples from the surface of Mars by 2030, according to the chief scientist of the country's lunar orbiter project, state media reported Wednesday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2012 - Curiosity's main activity in the 62nd sol of the mission (Oct. 8, 2012) was to image a small, bright object on the ground using the Remote Micro-Imager of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrume
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2012 - On the mission's 61st Martian day, or sol (Oct. 7, 2012),NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its soil scoop for the first time, collecting a scoopful of sand and powdery material at the Rocknest site
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 09, 2012 - Opportunity is conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaign at a putative location of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned
Washington (AFP) Oct 09, 2012 - NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered a bright object in the red soil of Mars that might be a part of the robotic explorer that broke off, the US space agency said.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 08, 2012 - On 8 June 2012, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, acquired im
Washington (UPI) Oct 6, 2012 - A Russian cosmonaut and a U.S. astronaut will fly to the International Space Station for the first-ever yearlong mission in 2015, officials said.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 05, 2012 - On Sol 55 (Oct. 1, 2012), Curiosity finished observations at the Bathurst Inlet rock target it had examined with instruments on the arm. Then the rover completed a drive of about 77 feet (23.5 met
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 04, 2012 - Preliminary weather reports from the Curiosity's Remote Environment Monitoring Station (REMS) are showing some surprisingly mild temperatures during the day. Average daytime air temperatures have re
Washington (AFP) Oct 4, 2012 - NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is parked at a sand pit and ready to scoop up soil to clean and test its geological sampling hardware, the US space agency said Thursday.
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 3, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover took the post-PC revolution into space on Wednesday by using location-sharing mobile application Foursquare to check-in on the Red Planet.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 01, 2012 - On Sol 52 (Sept. 28), Curiosity drove about 122 feet (37.3 meters) eastward toward the Glenelg area, using visual odometry to assess and adjust for any wheel slippage. The mission's total distance d
Boston, MA (SPX) Oct 01, 2012 - Since the beginning of August, NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, has been roaming all over the distant planet learning as much as it can about the Martian terrain. The mission control team back on Earth
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 01, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Opportunity, well into its ninth year on Mars, will work for the next several weeks or months at a site with some of the mission's most intriguing geological features. The si
