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India's Mars Orbiter Mission Completes First 1,000 Earth Days
Jun 23, 2017 (Sputnik)
The mission was originally designed to last at least six months, but ISRO's Mangalyaan still continues to collect data and send it back to earth. Mangalyaan (Ma...
Opportunity Straightens Wheel, Resumes Driving
Jun 23, 2017 (JPL)
The rover experienced a left-front wheel steering actuator stall on Sol 4750 (June 4, 2017), leaving the wheel toed out by 33 degrees. Our initial attempts to s...
No One Under 20 Has Experienced a Day Without NASA at Mars
Jun 23, 2017 (JPL)
Even the mission team anxiously awaiting confirmation that the spacecraft survived its innovative, bouncy landing could not anticipate the magnitude of the pivo...
University Students Mine for Water at NASA's Mars Ice Challenge
Jun 21, 2017 (SPX)
Dozens of students from seven U.S. universities traveled to NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to see if their projects could extract water fr...
NASA, French Space Agency Express Commitment to Joint Exploration
Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)
The leaders of the two space agencies, Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, and CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall, reaffirmed the agencies' mutual desire ...
Mars Orbiter spots rover ascending Mount Sharp
Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)
The image was taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on June 5 and shared online this week. Curiosity spent the end of last mo...
Martian Crater Provides Reminder of Apollo Moonwalk
Jun 19, 2017 (JPL)
Opportunity's science team informally named the Martian feature "Orion Crater." The name honors the Apollo 16 lunar module, Orion, which carried astronauts John...
Opportunity collecting panoramas of high-value targets at Endeavour Crater
Jun 19, 2017 (JPL)
The rover experienced a left-front wheel steering actuator stall on Sol 4750 (June 4, 2017) leaving the wheel 'toed-out' by 33 degrees. On Sol 4752 (June 6, 201...
MAVEN's top 10 discoveries at Mars
Jun 19, 2017 (SPX)
"MAVEN has made tremendous discoveries about the Mars upper atmosphere and how it interacts with the sun and the solar wind," said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principa...
Russian Institute to Start Long-Haul Mars Mission Simulations in November
Jun 16, 2017 (Sputnik)
"The IBMP will conduct the SIRIUS (Scientific International Research In Unique Terrestrial Station) project, which will include modeling conditions of long-term...
Elon Musk's vision of a self-sustaining city on Mars published in New Space
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
The article, drawn from Mr. Musk's presentation at the 67th International Astronautical Congress, is published in New Space, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary A...
Hot rocks, not warm atmosphere, led to relatively recent water-carved valleys on Mars
Jun 14, 2017 (SPX)
Now, a team of researchers from Brown University has offered what they see as the most plausible explanation for how the Lyot valley networks formed. They concl...
Walkabout Above 'Perseverance Valley'
Jun 12, 2017 (JPL)
To start the walkabout, on Sol 4746 (May 31, 2017) Opportunity drove about 82 feet (24.9 meters) mostly south toward a chosen waypoint. Images for extensive pan...
NASA Finds Evidence of Diverse Environments in Curiosity Samples
Jun 12, 2017 (JPL)
Curiosity landed near Mount Sharp in Gale Crater in August 2012. It reached the base of the mountain in 2014. Layers of rocks at the base of Mount Sharp accumul...
Window to a watery past on Mars
Jun 09, 2017 (ESA)
It focuses on a large crater in the Margaritifer Terra region in the southern hemisphere of Mars, and includes a portion of Erythraeum Chaos to the north (right...
Opportunity Surveying the spillway into Perseverance Valley
Jun 08, 2017 (JPL)
In particular, pancam mosaics from the second station of the long baseline stereo campaign were taken on Sols 4739, 4740, 4741 and 4742 (May 23, 24, 25, 26, 201...
Collateral damage from cosmic rays increases cancer risks for Mars astronauts
Jun 06, 2017 (SPX)
The findings appeared in the May issue of Scientific Reports and were presented by UNLV scientist Francis Cucinotta, a leading scholar on radiation and space ph...
Study estimates amount of water needed to carve Martian valleys
Jun 06, 2017 (SPX)
The study bolsters the idea that Mars once had a warmer climate and active hydrologic cycle, with water evaporating from an ancient ocean, returning to the surf...
Curiosity Peels Back Layers on Ancient Martian Lake
Jun 02, 2017 (JPL)
Different conditions favorable for different types of microbes existed simultaneously in the same lake. Previous work had revealed the presence of a lake more t...
Halos discovered on Mars widen time frame for potential life
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
"The concentration of silica is very high at the centerlines of these halos," said Jens Frydenvang, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Univer...
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