Pullman WA (SPX) Oct 25, 2010 - For the chance to watch the sun rise over Olympus Mons, or maybe take a stroll across the vast plains of the Vastitas Borealis, would you sign on for a one-way flight to Mars? It's a question
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 22, 2010 - A newly installed webcam is giving the public an opportunity to watch technicians assemble and test the next NASA Mars rover, one of the most technologically challenging interplanetary missions ever
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 - A couple of clicks of the mouse are enough to send the ExoMars rover with its six flexible metal wheels moving across the sand tank towards the first obstacle. Bernhard Rebele, Maximilian Apfelbeck
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 - Opportunity crossed the 24-kilometer (15-mile) odometry mark on her way to Endeavour crater. The rover ended last week with the data backlog which limited activities over the weekend. On Sol 2
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 - The most illustrious meteorite in history continues to inspire heated debate. Does it carry microbial fossils from Mars or are its strange features just the product of some unique geochemistry? Afte
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 22, 2010 - This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a 90-degree view centered toward the east following a 93.3-meter (306-foot) drive east-northeastwa
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 19, 2010 - Researchers at the Planetary Science Institute have found a new explanation for how seas and lakes may have once developed on Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 18, 2010 - The new project manager for the longest-working spacecraft currently active at Mars, NASA's Mars Odyssey, has a long track record himself.
Dallas TX (SPX) Oct 18, 2010 - Instruments designed by a UT Dallas professor to measure atmospheric components on the surface of Mars have uncovered important clues about the planet's atmosphere and climate history.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2010 - Opportunity drove only once this past week, nearing the 24-kilometer (15-mile) odometry mark.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 - There are few places on Mars lower than this. The floor of Melas Chasma sinks nine kilometres below the surrounding plains. New images from the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsche Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) operated High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express orbiter highlight the complex history of this enormous martian canyon.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 12, 2010 - A new discovery of hydrothermally altered carbonate-bearing rocks on Mars points toward habitable environments deep in the Martian crust, a Planetary Science Institute researcher said.
Washington (AFP) Oct 12, 2010 - NASA chief Charles Bolden will make an official visit to China October 16-21, a spokesman for the US space agency said Tuesday.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2010 - Various orbiters, landers and rovers that have explored Mars in the past three decades have revealed tantalizing evidence of the conditions for life, from frozen water at the planet's North Pole to methane plumes in the atmosphere. For atmospheric scientist Joel Levine, the evidence has made the case for flying an airplane over Mars stronger than ever.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 11, 2010 - The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite has completed assembly at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and is nearly ready for a December delivery to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., where it will be joined to the Curiosity rover.
Denver CO (SPX) Oct 06, 2010 - NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) project passed its Mission Confirmation Review on Oct. 4. As a result, NASA has given approval for the development and 2013 launch of the MAVEN mission. Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] is the industry partner for the mission and will design and build the spacecraft and perform flight operations.
