Curiosity to Investigate Mount Sharp for Clues of Past Life
Scientists hope to place Curiosity on flat ground at the foot of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater. Once in position, Curiosity will examine whether the…
Scientists hope to place Curiosity on flat ground at the foot of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater. Once in position, Curiosity will examine whether the…
NASA scientists successfully completed the second of six planned trajectory correction maneuvers and confirmed the health of science instruments onboard Curiosity this week. The Mars…
A recent image captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a twisting column of dust more than…
Ten years and counting. The Thermal Emission Imaging System onboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has taken nearly 500,000 images and circled Mars nearly 45,000 times…
Researchers have discovered a veritable microbial oasis, under the Atacama Desert in Chile. The region is known for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), but…
Recent images from the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the three-petal lander of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit…
Researchers from Imperial College London have been studying and analyzing individual particles of Martian soil that was collected during the 2008 NASA Phoenix mission to…
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has finally returned with some strong evidence of Martian oceans. Using its MARSIS radar, it detected sediments reminiscent of…
Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA’s enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially…
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is spending its fifth winter on Mars and is now exploring a site known as “Greeley Haven.” Due to a…
The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which was supposed to have traveled to Phobos, a moon of Mars, and back, crashed on Earth. The ambitious project crashed into…
It took a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft to pull off the maneuver to refine its flight path while…
On January 11, 2012, NASA is planning to conduct the biggest trajectory maneuver for the Science Laboratory Spacecraft on its mission to Mars. By precisely…
After losing contact back in November, the Russian Space Agency admits failure. The Russian Phobos-Ground spacecraft, which was to be headed for a moon of…
Whenever we send a spacecraft or rover to another planet NASA is very careful to make sure that it isn’t carrying biological contamination from Earth….
We’re heading back to Mars to search for any clues that might indicate life has or could exist on the big red planet. Of course,…