Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 27, 2012 - NASA's rover Curiosity touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept. 22, assessing what chemical elements are in the rock called Jake Matijevic. After a short drive
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 27, 2012 - Life thrives on Planet Earth. In even the most inhospitable places - the freezing Antarctic permafrost, Sun-baked salt pans in Tunisia or the corrosively acidic Rio Tinto in Spain - pockets of life
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 26, 2012 - A team of researchers at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) has developed a device that works as a windshield wiper to eliminate Mars dust from the sensors on the NASA spacecrafts that travel t
Huntsvile AL (SPX) Sep 25, 2012 - Adam Steltzner doesn't sound much like an ordinary engineer. For instance, when we asked him if he would talk about Curiosity-and explain why the Mars rover matters to ordinary people--the for
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 25, 2012 - Opportunity is continuing the 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 positione
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 25, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine. Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about halfway f
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 24, 2012 - This view of the American flag medallion on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 44th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Sept.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine. Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about hal
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 20, 2012 - The car-sized Mars rover Curiosity, which landed on the Red Planet last month, is the biggest, most expensive and most ambitious planetary mission in many years. But it is just one of a sweepi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 20, 2012 - This mosaic from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover shows a close-up view looking toward the Glenelg area, where three different terrain types come together. All three types are observed fr
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 20, 2012 - The drive by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity during the mission's 43rd Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 19, 2012) ended with this rock about 8 feet (2.5 meters) in front of the rover. The rock is about
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 20, 2012 - A series of daily drives has taken NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity to a vantage point about halfway to a science destination area called Glenelg. The rover has been using its Mast Camera to examine the
Washington (AFP) Sept 19, 2012 - NASA's Curiosity Rover will study its first martial rock Friday, more than a month after landing on the Red Planet, mission officials said.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 18, 2012 - Opportunity has begun the 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. Earlier, Opportunity had d
Bangalore, India (AFP) Sept 17, 2012 - India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars in November 2013, a senior official from the country's space research establishment said on Monday.
Laurel NY (SPX) Sep 17, 2012 - Prof. Steve Squyres '78 Ph.D. '81, astronomy, told a Senate committee on Wednesday that U.S. space exploration programs risk significant delays and setbacks because they are severely underfunded. De
