MARS

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Tiny Crystal Shapes Get Close Look From Mars Rover
Feb 09, 2018 (JPL)
This set of shapes looks familiar to geologists who have studied gypsum crystals formed in drying lakes on Earth, but Curiosity's science team is considering mu...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter capatures images of splitting slope streaks
Feb 09, 2018 (JPL)
These streaks are often diverted by the terrain they flow down. This one has split into many smaller streaks where it encountered minor obstacles. These streaks...
NASA leverages proven technologies to build agency's first planetary wind lidar
Feb 09, 2018 (SPX)
We pride ourselves in leveraging new technology," said Mike Smith, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Smith is ...
HKU scientist makes key discoveries in the search for life on Mars
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
However, Dr Joseph Michalski of the Department of Earth Sciences and Laboratory for Space Research at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and his colleagues have ...
In Oman desert, European venture sets sights on Mars
Feb 08, 2018 (AFP)
Behind a barbed wire fence protected by soldiers from the Gulf sultanate, researchers in prefab facilities work away on experiments that include trying to grow ...
Studies of Clay Formation Provide Clues to Early Martian Climate
Feb 06, 2018 (SPX)
The climate on early Mars has presented an enigma for planetary scientists because surface features such as valley networks indicate abundant liquid water was p...
Opportunity Celebrates 14 Years of Working on Mars
Feb 05, 2018 (JPL)
The rover has moved along the north fork of the local flow channel. Continuing the extensive collection of stereo imagery, the rover used the Navigation Cameras...
Mount Sharp 'Photobombs' Mars Curiosity Rover
Feb 02, 2018 (JPL)
In coming weeks, Curiosity will begin to climb this slope. In the image, north is on the left and west is on the right, with Gale Crater's rim on the horizon of...
A vista from Mars rover looks back over journey so far
Jan 31, 2018 (JPL)
The view from "Vera Rubin Ridge" on the north flank of Mount Sharp encompasses much of the 11-mile (18-kilometer) route the rover has driven from its 2012 landi...
NASA tests power system to support manned missions to Mars
Jan 30, 2018 (VOA)
The American space agency NASA and the Department of Energy recently announced the results in Las Vegas, Nevada. The officials said they will carry out a full t...
Opportunity prepares software update as Sol 5000 approaches
Jan 29, 2018 (JPL)
Color imaging of light toned bedrock and nearby streaked rocks occupied the first few sols. The Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) argon integration was d...
NASA's Next Mars Lander Spreads its Solar Wings
Jan 25, 2018 (JPL)
The test took place at Lockheed Martin Space just outside of Denver, where InSight was built and has been undergoing testing ahead of its launch. The mission is...
European-Russian space mission steps up the search for life on Mars
Jan 25, 2018 (SPX)
Even if the new data prove to be inconclusive, they will definitely heat up the discussion on whether there ever was life on the red planet. In early 2018, the ...
Dust storms linked to gas escape from Mars atmosphere
Jan 24, 2018 (JPL)
A study published this week based on observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) during the most recent Martian global dust storm - in 2007 - sugge...
Mystery Solved for Mega-Avalanches in Tibet - and Perhaps on Mars
Jan 24, 2018 (SPX)
In July 2016, a glacier in Tibet - inconspicuous among thousands of others - did something documented on Earth only once before: almost the entire ice mass slip...
Opportunity gets dust cleaning and passes 45 kilometers of driving
Jan 23, 2018 (JPL)
The rover has moved along the north fork of the local flow channel. However, before moving, the rover spent several sols completing stereo, color panoramas and ...
New technique for finding life on Mars
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
"The search for life is a major focus of planetary exploration, but there hasn't been direct life detection instrumentation on a mission since the 70s, during t...
Crater Neukum named after Mars Express founder
Jan 19, 2018 (ESA)
The International Astronomical Union named the 102 km-wide crater in the Noachis Terra region "Neukum" in September last year after the camera's leader, who die...
Opportunity takes right at the fork and has successful battery test
Jan 15, 2018 (JPL)
The rest of this period was devoted to only remote sensing and use of the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) on Sol 4961 (Jan. 6, 2018), to keep the rover...
Scientist's work may provide answer to Martian mountain mystery
Jan 12, 2018 (SPX)
Anderson's co-author, Dr. Mackenzie Day, worked on the project as part of her doctoral research at The University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her PhD i...
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