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
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2011 - Observations over the last decade suggest that methane clouds form briefly over Mars during the summer months. The discovery has left many scientists scratching their heads, since it doesn't fit int
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 09, 2011 - Operators of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are resuming use of the mission's highest resolution camera following a second precautionary shutdown in two weeks. The High Resolution Imaging
London (AFP) Sept 8, 2011 - A British geologist has volunteered to spend 48 hours in an airtight chamber relying on the oxygen produced by plants to survive.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 06, 2011 - Earth microbes trying to make it to Mars must survive sterilization in NASA's clean rooms, harsh cosmic rays during months of space travel, and the Red Planet's unforgiving surface environment. But
Paris (ESA) Sep 05, 2011 - ESA's Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta. The delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit of dark sediments, laid down in water. I
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2011 - Opportunity is continuing the in-situ (contact) investigation of rocks around the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2697 (Aug. 25, 2011), the rover bumped a mere 0.15 meters (about 6 inches) to reposi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 02, 2011 - The initial work of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sept 01, 2011 - Opportunity has begun the in-situ (contact) investigation of rocks around the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2690 (Aug. 18, 2011), the rover began the approach to a large ejecta block, named
Denver CO (SPX) Aug 31, 2011 - Scientists are expressing confidence that questions about life on Mars, which have captured human imagination for centuries, finally may be answered, thanks in part to new life-detection tools up to
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 31, 2011 - A technique used in NASA's capability-driven architecture analysis is analog field testing in the high desert - an environment which simulates conditions that may be encountered on planetary surface
Denver CO (SPX) Aug 30, 2011 - A green thumb and a little flair as a gourmet chef may be among the key skills for the first men and women who travel to the Red Planet later this century, according to a scientist who reported here
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Aug 29, 2011 - A wet Mars is just a memory, but where did the water go? Geological observations suggest rivers and seas dotted the martian surface 3.5 billion years ago. The amount of water has been equated to a p
Zhukovsky (RIA Novosti) Aug 23, 2011 - With just months to go before the end of a Moscow-based simulated journey to Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) head said on Wednesday a joint mission with Russia to the Red Planet was in the pip
