Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2010 - Since the arrival to the McMurdo station in the Antarctic two days ago, most of our time has been spent on assembling and testing our Mars prototype drill: the Icebreaker. Icebreaker was built to br
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 17, 2010 - NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, will wield an arm-mounted magnifying camera similar to one on the Mars Rover Opportunity, which promptly demonstrated its importance for reading environmental hist
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2010 - Over the course of the past decade, NASA spacecraft have identified several sites on Mars where conditions capable of supporting life existed in the past. One of the most promising of these si
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2010 - Opportunity has been navigating through a field of small impact craters on her way to Endeavour crater. On Sol 2411 (Nov. 5, 2010), the rover performed an in-place 40-degree turn for communication.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2010 - They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but with planets, first impressions do count. New images from the German Aerospace Center operated High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European Space A
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 12, 2010 - The first and only attempts to search for life on Mars were the Viking missions launched in 1975. Now scientists are suggesting the next decade of robotic probes sent to the red planet should make t
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2010 - About eight months before the NASA rover Curiosity touches down on Mars in August 2012, the mission's science measurements will begin much closer to Earth. The Mars Science Laboratory mission'
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2010 - If there is evidence of life on Mars, it will be found in the planet's rocks. And as most scientists who study Mars will tell you, the best way to learn about martian rocks is to bring a few back to
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 09, 2010 - It has been a week of driving for Opportunity. She drove on five of the last seven sols and covered over 400 meters (1,312 feet). As the rover makes her way toward Endeavour crater, she is taking a
San Diego CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2010 - Chemists at UC San Diego have uncovered a new chemical reaction on tiny particulates in the atmosphere that could allow scientists to gain a glimpse from ancient rocks of what the atmospheres of the
Santa Monica CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2010 - Humans have walked on the Moon, and inevitably, according to NASA, humans will tread the Red Planet as well, possibly by 2037. An ergonomist and an industrial designer pondered the challenges of the
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 03, 2010 - The project team that built and operates the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity has become the first NASA space mission to use cloud computing for daily mission operations. Cloud computing is
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2010 - Over the past week, Opportunity completed a short bump before the weekend and two long drives after the weekend. The short bump was a 3-meter (10-foot) move on Sol 2397 (Oct. 21, 2010), to position
Providence RI (SPX) Nov 02, 2010 - Roughly 3.5 billion years ago, the first epoch on Mars ended. The climate on the red planet then shifted dramatically from a relatively warm, wet period to one that was arid and cold. Yet there was
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 01, 2010 - Light-colored mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone more than three billion years ago may preserve evidence of one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars. Observatio
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2010 - A growing bounty of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the timing of new activity in one type of the enigmatic gullies on Mars implicates carbon-dioxide frost, rather than w
