Kennedy Space Center FL SPX) Oct 07, 2011 - In preparation for launch later this year, the back shell powered descent vehicle configuration containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, has been placed on the spacecraft's heat
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2011 - More than seven years after completing their three-month prime missions on opposite sides of Mars, NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity have been selected for lifetime achievement award honors as part
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 05, 2011 - Curiosity is about to go to Mars. The car-sized rover, also known as the Mars Science Lab, is scheduled for launch in late November or early December 2011 from the Kennedy Space Center. After an eig
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 05, 2011 - Opportunity is still positioned at the target called Chester Lake at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover continues with the in-situ (contact) science investigation of the surface r
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 30, 2011 - New analysis of data sent back by the SPICAM spectrometer on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has revealed for the first time that the planet's atmosphere is supersaturated with water vapour. Thi
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2011 - Would you like to participate in NASA's analog research program? Interested in helping scientists pinpoint where to look for signs of life on Mars and elsewhere in the universe? Now you can, with an
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 27, 2011 - Drill Hill is a circular mound of impact breccia about a kilometer (0.6 miles) in diameter, one of many such mounds that litter the floor of Haughton Crater. It's a large pile of rock rubble, initia
Denver CO (SPX) Sep 27, 2011 - NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission has reached a new milestone. Lockheed Martin has completed building the primary structure of NASA's MAVEN spacecraft at its Space System
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 27, 2011 - Opportunity is still positioned at the target called Chester Lake at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2717 (Sept. 15, 2011), the rover successfully brushed the surface target
Moscow (XNA) Sep 26, 2011 - Russia would resume its program of inter-planetary explorations after a long break with an unmanned mission to the Martian satellite Phobos, a Russian space company said Thursday. According to
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 20, 2011 - Two small depressions on Mars found to be rich in minerals that formed by water could have been places for life relatively recently in the planet's history, according to a new paper in the journal G
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 19, 2011 - Opportunity is in position at a target called Chester Lake at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2710 (Sept. 8, 2011), the rover pumped forward just over a meter (3 feet) to pu
St. Louis, MO (SPX) Sep 19, 2011 - Shortly after Labor Day 2011, the Mars rover Opportunity was poised on the rim of the 22,000 meter-wide Endeavour Crater, preparing to sample a novel rock type. Much older than the sedimentary
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 15, 2011 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is using instruments on its robotic arm to inspect targets on a rock called Chester Lake. This is the second rock the rover has examined with a micr
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 14, 2011 - Opportunity is moving to other in-situ (contact) targets of interest around the region, called Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2703 (Sept. 1, 2011), the rover made the first o
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2011 - A view of a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center towers was taken on Mars yesterday, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The memorial, made from alu
