New Delhi (AFP) Aug 15, 2012 - India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confirmed on Wednesday after press reports that the mission was scheduled to begin late next year.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2012 - For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon, which involves the
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 13, 2012 - The first images from Curiosity's color Mast Camera, or Mastcam, have been received by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The 130 low-resolution thumbnails, which wer
Los Alamos CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2012 - Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team got a digital thumbs up about the operational readiness of their instrument just hours after the rover landed on Martian soil late
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 13, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will spend its first weekend on Mars transitioning to software better suited for tasks ahead, such as driving and using its strong robotic arm. The rover's brain transpl
Aboard Air Force One (AFP) Aug 13, 2012 - US President Barack Obama on Monday ribbed scientists behind NASA's roving robot Curiosity, instructing them to let him know right away if they found life on Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 13, 2012 - With Curiosity on the Surface Opportunity Will Resume Driving Soon - August 02-07, 2012 - sols 3030-3035. Activity has been constrained for the period around the arrival of Curiosity. The proj
Pasadena, California (AFP) Aug 10, 2012 - NASA said Friday that a mysterious spot shown on a photograph sent back to Earth by the Mars rover Curiosity was the crash landing of its rocket stage.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 09, 2012 - Remarkable image sets from NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are continuing to develop the story of Curiosity's landing and first days on Mars. The images from Curiosity's
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 09, 2012 - Late Monday night, an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover and the components that helped
Knoxville, TN (SPX) Aug 09, 2012 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity would have a hard time completing its mission if it were not for a successful partnership between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a professor-student
San Antonio TX (SPX) Aug 08, 2012 - Almost nine months after it was launched, Curiosity, NASA's latest rover, landed safely in the Gale Crater of Mars in the wee hours of August 6 CDT. The last seven minutes were particularly dramatic
Washington (AFP) Aug 8, 2012 - NASA rover Curiosity's second day on Mars went flawlessly, NASA said Wednesday, confirming the antennas, communication links and generator on the $2.5 billion robot are all working well.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 08, 2012 - This picture of the Martian landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover puts a color view obtained by the rover in the context of a computer simulation derived from images acquired from orbiting spacecra
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 08, 2012 - This image taken by NASA's Curiosity shows what lies ahead for the rover - its main science target, Mount Sharp. The rover's shadow can be seen in the foreground, and the dark bands beyond are dunes
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 07, 2012 - With Curiosity now safely on the surface of the Red Planet after last night's spectacular entry, descent and landing in Gale Crater, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory begins its planned primary one-Mar
