Washington (AFP) Sept 14, 2012 - NASA's Opportunity rover, older brother to the Curiosity rover that landed on Mars last month, has made a new discovery that geologists find both puzzling and exciting, the US space agency said Friday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 14, 2012 - NASA's Mars Curiosity team has almost finished robotic arm tests in preparation for the rover to touch and examine its first Martian rock. Tests with the 7-foot (2.1-meter) arm have allowed th
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 14, 2012 - On Sol 35 of its mission on Mars (Sept. 10, 2012) Curiosity continued activities for characterizing its arm and the tools on the arm. The Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) completed a r
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 13, 2012 - NASA's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission has passed a critical milestone, Key Decision Point-D or KDP-D. The project is officially authorized to transition into the next phase o
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity stepped through activities on Sept. 7, 8 and 9 designed to check and characterize precision movements by the rover's robotic arm and use of tools on the arm. The activiti
Washington (AFP) Sept 12, 2012 - NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars more than a month ago, appears to be working flawlessly as it prepares to continue its two-year exploration of the Red Planet, the US space agency said Wednesday.
Denver CO (SPX) Sep 12, 2012 - Lockheed Martin has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase for NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. MAVEN is scheduled to launch in November 2013 an
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2012 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon-dioxide snowfalls on Mars. This reveals the only known example of carbon-dioxide snow falling anywhe
Chennai, India (IANS) Sep 10, 2012 - From the days of having a church as control room, the bishop's house as office, a bicycle as ferry, naked eyes to track the smoke plume at Thumba in Kerala, converting a toilet into a satellite data
Paris (AFP) Sept 9, 2012 - Instead of a warm, wet and possibly life-bearing planet as some scientists contend, early Mars may have been a hostile and volatile place with frequent volcanic outbursts, a study said Sunday.
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 9, 2012 - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday defended spending millions of dollars on space exploration despite many people in the country living in grinding poverty.
Woodland Hills, CA (SPX) Sep 07, 2012 - Northrop Grumman supplied the navigation and pointing aid for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which recently began a historic two-year exploration of Mars. Northrop Grumman's LN-200S is a lightweight,
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 07, 2012 - Hadley Crater on Mars has been subject to several impacts by large asteroids in the course of its history. The 'craters within a crater' formed in this way give us a view over two kilometres into th
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Sep 07, 2012 - On Mars's poles there are ice caps of ice and dust with layers that reflect to past climate variations on Mars. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have related the layers in the ice cap on Ma
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2012 - After driving more than a football field's length since landing, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is spending several days preparing for full use of the tools on its arm. Curiosity extended its robotic a
Washington (AFP) Sept 6, 2012 - NASA's Curiosity rover has temporarily halted its journey across the surface of Mars as it tests the tools on its robotic arm, the US space agency said Thursday.
