Washington DC (SPX) May 25, 2012 - NASA-funded research on Mars meteorites that landed on Earth shows strong evidence that very large molecules containing carbon, which is a key ingredient for the building blocks of life, can origina
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 25, 2012 - NASA's call to scientists and engineers to help plan a new strategy to explore Mars has resulted in a flurry of unique and bold ideas, almost doubling the number of expected submissions. This
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 24, 2012 - Like a tourist waiting for just the right lighting to snap a favorite shot during a stay at the Grand Canyon, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has used a low sun angle for a memorable view
Raleigh NC (SPX) May 24, 2012 - New research from North Carolina State University shows that a wind-driven tumbleweed Mars rover would be capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain - findings that could also help the Nationa
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 22, 2012 - Magnetometers built by scientists and engineers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for NASA's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission have been delivered to the Uni
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 20, 2012 - Landing on Mars is never easy, as a record of failed missions has demonstrated. The gravity is fairly strong, but the atmosphere is thin. This pulls spacecraft in rapidly as they approach, but offer
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2012 - With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, NASA's durable Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, called Greeley Haven, where it worked during its fifth
Pullman, WA (SPX) May 14, 2012 - Rural Eastern Washington will become a testing ground in support of a mission to explore the Martian atmosphere for potential evidence of life under a recently funded NASA project developed by scien
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2012 - After being stationary for 130 sols during the winter, Opportunity has resumed driving again. On Sol 2947 (May 8, 2012), the rover performed a 12-foot (3.7-meter) drive down from her winter pe
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2012 - Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate a similar rover, Curi
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 11, 2012 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth. This is unexpecte
College Station TX (SPX) May 10, 2012 - NASA's top scientists - including a Texas A and M University researcher - hope to find out how Mars' climate has evolved over billions of years, and answers could come soon in the mission involving
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 10, 2012 - Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars-observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a
United Nations, N.Y. (UPI) May 9, 2012 - Russia would be willing to be a partner with the United States on a manned mission to Mars, a Russian space official said at the United Nations.
London (UPI) May 7, 2012 - European scientists said they'll undergo four months of freezing darkness and isolation in Antarctica in preparation for a possible manned trip to Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2012 - Opportunity is still positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt, but not for much longer. With the improvement in sola
