Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 20, 2011 - More than seven years into what was planned as a three-month mission on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven more than 20 miles, which is more than 50 times the mission's origi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2011 - Opportunity has exceeded 32 kilometers (nearly 20 miles) of distance on Mars and is now less than 1.5 kilometers (approximately a mile) from the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 15, 2011 - Opportunity is now within 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) of the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater, at a place called Spirit Point. With multi-sol planning for the 4th of July holiday w
Kimberley, Australia (UPI) Jul 15, 2011 - NASA says it is using a remote region of Australia's outback as a training ground for planetary scientists preparing to send a new rover to Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 08, 2011 - NASA's next Mars rover will land either beside the site of a former river delta or beside a mountain of stacked layers. These enticing locations are the two finalists as the Mars Science Laboratory
Mountain View, CA (SPX) Jul 05, 2011 - Scientists at the SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif., and NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. believe that traces of Mars' wet past are hidden from the scrutiny of space-borne inst
Moffett Field, CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2011 - NASA scientists are seeing new evidence that suggests traces of water on Mars are under a thin varnish of iron oxide, or rust, similar to conditions found on desert rocks in California's Mojave Dese
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2011 - Southern Atacama Desert, Chile - Sunday, May 8, 2011 - This is the first of a series of reports from my recent trip to the Atacama Desert. I traveled with a group of scientists, headed by Jacek Wier
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 29, 2011 - Although NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will not leave Earth until late this year nor land on Mars until August 2012, anyone can watch those dramatic events now in a new animation of the mission.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 28, 2011 - Opportunity is making excellent progress towards Endeavour crater with only 2.3 kilometers (1.4 miles) to go before reaching the first landfall on the rim, a place called Spirit Point. The r
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 27, 2011 - NASA's next Mars rover has completed the journey from its California birthplace to Florida in preparation for launch this fall. The Mars Science Laboratory rover, also known as Curiosity, arrived la
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 22, 2011 - Southern California's high desert has been a stand-in for Mars for NASA technology testing many times over the years. And so it is again, in a series of flights by an F/A-18 aircraft to test the lan
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 20, 2011 - Opportunity continues to make excellent progress towards Endeavour crater with under 3 kilometers (nearly 2 miles) to go before the first landfall on the rim. On Sols 2622, 2626, 2627 and 2628
Paris (ESA) Jun 20, 2011 - Earlier this month, ESA's Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into a movi
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2011 - To search for life on Mars, future astronauts would naturally want to step outside their living habitat for a walk. But the spacesuits keeping them alive might also carry Earth microbes or ingredien
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2011 - Opportunity completed a drive-by imaging campaign of another small, but young crater, named Gemini 5. On Sol 2616 (June 3, 2011), Opportunity set a new one-sol backwards driving distance rec
