MARS

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Curiosity watches Martian clouds pass over Gale Crater
Aug 14, 2017 (JPL)
These clouds are the most clearly visible so far from Curiosity, which landed five years ago this month about five degrees south of Mars' equator. Clouds moving...
China to build first Mars simulation base
Aug 09, 2017 (XNA)
The base will be in the red cliff region in Da Qaidam (also known as Dachaidan) district in the Mongolian-Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Haixi. Situated at th...
Five Years Ago and 154 Million Miles Away: Touchdown!
Aug 03, 2017 (JPL)
On Aug. 5, 2012, the mission team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, exalted at radio confirmation and first images from Curiosity aft...
Opportunity enters Automode during solar conjunction pause
Aug 01, 2017 (JPL)
In advance of solar conjunction, we prepared two weeks of command sequences and stored them on Opportunity to keep the rover busy during the communication black...
Eclipse Balloons to Study Effect of Mars-Like Environment on Life
Jul 31, 2017 (JPL)
A larger initiative, NASA's Eclipse Balloon Project, led by Angela Des Jardins of Montana State University, is sending more than 50 high-altitude balloons launc...
Portals to new worlds: Martian exploration near the North Pole
Jul 27, 2017 (UPI)
Known as "the Hab," this 26-foot diameter structure is home to six scientists and researchers who just moved in for a 12-week mission to simulate life on Mars. ...
Panorama Above 'Perseverance Valley'
Jul 21, 2017 (JPL)
The scene includes a broad notch in the crest of the crater's rim, which may have been a spillway where water or ice or wind flowed over the rim and into the cr...
Hubble sees Martian moon orbiting the Red Planet
Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)
Over the course of 22 minutes, Hubble took 13 separate exposures, allowing astronomers to create a time-lapse video showing the diminutive moon's orbital path. ...
Sol 1756: Closing time
Jul 20, 2017 (JPL)
MAHLI, APXS and ChemCam were already stored safely for the upcoming conjunction nap, leaving Mastcam and MARDI to collect a few last bits of science data for th...
Space Race: NASA Faces Competition From SpaceX For First Mars Mission
Jul 18, 2017 (Sputnik)
"I can't put a date on humans on Mars, and the reason really is the other piece is, at the budget levels we described, this roughly 2 percent increase, we don't...
For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun
Jul 17, 2017 (JPL)
NASA will refrain from sending commands to America's three Mars orbiters and two Mars rovers during the period from July 22 to Aug. 1. "Out of caution, we won't...
Opportunity will spend three weeks at current location due to Solar Conjunction
Jul 14, 2017 (JPL)
Solar conjunction is when the Sun comes between Earth and Mars, which occurs about once every 26 months. During this time, there will be diminished communicatio...
Tributes to wetter times on Mars
Jul 14, 2017 (ESA)
The Libya Montes highlands mountains, one of the oldest regions on Mars, were uplifted during the formation of the 1200 km-wide Isidis impact basin some 3.9 bil...
Curiosity Mars Rover Begins Study of Ridge Destination
Jul 13, 2017 (JPL)
Since before Curiosity's landing five years ago next month, this feature has been recognized as one of four unique terrains on lower Mount Sharp and therefore a...
Mars surface 'more uninhabitable' than thought: study
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
In lab tests on Earth, the compounds known as perchlorates killed cultures of the bacteria Bacillus subtilis, a basic life form, a research duo from the Univers...
Mars Rover Opportunity continuing science campaign at Perseverance Valley
Jul 03, 2017 (JPL)
Although there are new considerations regarding steering (no use of the front steering actuators), Opportunity is continuing to drive. Solar conjunction is when...
The Niagara Falls of Mars once flowed with lava
Jun 29, 2017 (UPI)
The Niagara Falls of Mars, detailed in a new image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, once flowed with lava -- imagine a massive waterfall running ...
Russian Devices for ExoMars Mission to Be Ready in Fall 2017
Jun 28, 2017 (Sputnik)
ExoMars is the first project in the history of collaboration between the European Union and Russia that aims to search for life on Mars. The project started wit...
Laser-targeting AI Yields More Mars Science
Jun 26, 2017 (JPL)
A new paper in Science: Robotics looks at how the software has performed since rolling out to Curiosity's science team in May 2016. The AEGIS software, or Auton...
Mars rover Opportunity on walkabout near crater rim
Jun 26, 2017 (JPL)
Those scenarios are among the possible explanations rover-team scientists are considering for features seen just outside the crater rim's crest above "Persevera...
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