Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2011 - Because the surface of Mars today is bone-dry and frozen all year round, it's difficult to find any place on Earth that is truly Mars-like. But two locations, Antarctica's Upper Dry Valleys and the
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 15, 2011 - A flat, light-toned rock on Mars visited by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover in 2005 informally bears the name of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, who rode into orbit in the Soviet Union's Vosto
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2011 - An interplanetary spacecraft for a flight to Mars will be created no earlier than 2025, and the maiden flight to the red planet is possible only after 2035, Russian space agency Roscosmos chief Anat
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2011 - Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater with great dispatch, driving on four of the last six sols. On Sols 2554 and 2556 (April 1 and 3, 2011), the rover drove over 100 meters
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2011 - Assembly and testing of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is far enough along that the mission's rover, Curiosity, looks very much as it will when it is investigating Mars. Testing con
Barcelona (SPX) Apr 06, 2011 - Similar to small volcanoes, these formations until now had only been described in Australia and closely resemble gigantic forms found on Mars. The study may shed new light on the origin of these for
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 31, 2011 - Opportunity completed the in-situ (contact) investigation on the surface target Ruiz Garcia at Santa Maria crater. On Sol 2520 (Feb. 25, 2011), the rover used the robotic arm (Instrument Deplo
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2011 - Hopes for reviving NASA's Spirit Mars rover dimmed further with passage last week of the point at which the rover's locale received its maximum sunshine for the Martian year. The rover team ha
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2011 - A space-simulation chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is temporary home this month for the Curiosity rover, which will land on Mars next year. Tests inside the 25-f
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2011 - Opportunity completed the in-situ (contact) investigation on the surface target Ruiz Garcia at Santa Maria crater. On Sol 2520 (Feb. 25, 2011), the rover used the robotic arm (Instrument Deplo
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 15, 2011 - The time for a human mission to Mars is now, write the editors of A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet, a collection of articles published in book form this month by the Journal
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 14, 2011 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has nearly completed its three-month examination of a crater informally named Santa Maria, but before the rover resumes its overland trek, an orbiting cam
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2011 - This site is called Moon 2, says Gian Gabriele Ori of the International Research School of Planetary Sciences (IRSPS). He pauses, looks around, and then says with a laugh, I don't remember the re
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 10, 2011 - Opportunity is completing the last in-situ (contact) study at Santa Maria crater. On Sol 2520 (Feb. 25, 2011), the rover bumped 5.35 meters (18 feet) forward to approach the target Ruiz Garci
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 10, 2011 - NASA's versatile Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which began orbiting Mars five years ago on March 10, has radically expanded our knowledge of the Red Planet and is now working overtime. The miss
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2011 - ESA's Mars Express has returned new images of an elongated impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. Located just south of the Huygens basin, it could have been carved out by a train of proj
