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
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 14, 2011 - ESA and NASA have announced the scientific investigations selected for their 2016 ExoMars lander demonstrator. They will probe the atmosphere during the descent, and return the first ever data on el
Moffet Field CA (NASA) Jun 13, 2011 - In April, NASA's Spaceward Bound project returned to Zzyzx, California, in the Mojave Desert. Spaceward Bound brings together primary-grade science teachers with scientists to conduct astrobiology r
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2011 - When NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reaches the rim of a large crater it is approaching, its arrival will come with an inspiring reminder. This crater, Endeavour, became the rover's
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 10, 2011 - The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), part of the Science Mission Directorate's Mars Exploration Program (Mars Program), is the most technologically challenging interplanetary rover ever designed.
San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 08, 2011 - Planetary scientists have long wondered why Mars is only about half the size and one-tenth the mass of Earth. As next-door neighbors in the inner solar system, probably formed about the same time, w
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2011 - Opportunity has exceeded 30 kilometers (nearly 19 miles) of odometry! The rover spent the last few sols investigating some exposed rock outcrop en route to Endeavour crater, now just a few kilometer
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 06, 2011 - The Voyagers are, perhaps, the best known example. Launched in the 1970s to explore the outer planets, the iconic spacecraft have zoomed far beyond their original targets to the edge of interstellar
Paris (ESA) Jun 06, 2011 - The six men in the Mars500 facility near Moscow have been in isolation now 365 days. The European crewmembers have been writing in their latest letters home about the highlights, monotonous life, te
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 03, 2011 - A drive of 482 feet (146.8 meters) on June 1, 2011, took NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity past 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) in total odometry during 88 months of driving on Mars. That's 50 t
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2011 - What would it take to make a manned mission to Mars a reality? A team of aerospace and textile engineering students from North Carolina State University believe part of the solution may lie in advan
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 01, 2011 - Two digital color cameras riding high on the mast of NASA's next Mars rover will complement each other in showing the surface of Mars in exquisite detail. They are the left and right eyes of the Mas
