Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2012 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is healthy and right on course for a landing in several hours that will be one of the most difficult feats of robotic exploration ever attempted. Emot
Pasadena, California (AFP) Aug 6, 2012 - NASA has successfully landed its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, breaking new ground in US-led exploration of an alien world.
Pasadena, California (AFP) Aug 6, 2012 - After its first day on Mars, NASA's rover Monday sent back to Earth stunning images of its crater landing site and the mountain it aims to climb in the hunt for signs of life.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2012 - Opportunity has been roving at the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. However, activity will be constrained for the period ahead as Opportunity prepares for the arrival of Curios
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2012 - If a group of tourists piled out of a transport vehicle onto the surface of Mars, they'd no doubt start snapping pictures wildly. NASA's Curiosity rover, set to touch down on the Red Planet the even
Pasadena, California (AFP) Aug 6, 2012 - After years of hard work and seven minutes of terror, workers of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory here let out their tears of joy.
Paris (ESA) Aug 06, 2012 - Much like a treasure map branded with an 'X' to mark the site of buried bounty, NASA's rover Curiosity will be targeting its very own 'X' inside Gale Crater, to seek out the signs of past water - an
Washington (AFP) Aug 6, 2012 - Imagine taking 400 scientists on an alien road trip where each one wants to examine every interesting rock along the way. Welcome to the next two years of NASA's landmark robotic mission on Mars.
Los Angeles CA (AFP) Aug 06, 2012 - NASA's JPL has safely landed the Mars Science Lab - dubbed Curiosity - at Gale Crater, which lies near a mountain that scientists hope the rover will be able to climb in the search for sediment laye
Los Angeles CA (AFP) Aug 06, 2012 - NASA's JPL has safely landed the Mars Science Lab - dubbed Curiosity - at Gale Crater, which lies near a mountain that scientists hope the rover will be able to climb in the search for sediment laye
Los Angeles CA (AFP) Aug 06, 2012 - NASA's JPL has safely landed the Mars Science Lab - dubbed Curiosity - at Gale Crater, which lies near a mountain that scientists hope the rover will be able to climb in the search for sediment laye
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2012 - The gravitational tug of Mars is now pulling NASA's car-size geochemistry laboratory, Curiosity, in for a suspenseful landing in less than 40 hours. After flying more than eight months and 35
Washington (AFP) Aug 6, 2012 - US President Barack Obama hailed early Monday the successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, calling it an unprecedented feat of technology.
Knoxville TN (SPX) Aug 06, 2012 - NASA's Curiosity rover is scheduled to land on Mars Sunday. Then, the work will begin for two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professors searching for potentially habitable environments on the r
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2012 - NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a
Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 6, 2012 - NASA opened a new chapter in the history of interplanetary exploration on Monday when its $2.5 billion nuclear-powered robot Curiosity beamed back pictures from the surface of Mars.
