MARS

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Rover Rounds Martian Dune to Get to the Other Side
Jan 06, 2016 (JPL)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, partway through the first up-close study ever conducted of extraterrestrial sand dunes, is providing dramatic views of a dune's ste...
Boulders on a Martian Landslide
Dec 29, 2015 (SPX)
The striking feature in this image, acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 19...
NASA suspends March launch of InSight mission to Mars
Dec 23, 2015 (AFP)
NASA has suspended the March 2016 launch of its InSight mission to Mars because of problems with a key scientific component, the US space agency said Tuesday. T...
Marshall: Advancing the technology for NASA's Journey to Mars
Dec 23, 2015 (SPX)
From making rocket engines roar to analyzing the first 3-D printed parts created on the space station and developing new technologies, 2015 was a year of discov...
Opportunity positioned on steeper slopes for another Martian winter
Dec 22, 2015 (JPL)
Opportunity is inside "Marathon Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned on steep slopes for improved solar array energy production....
Martian gullies likely contain 'no water': study
Dec 21, 2015 (AFP)
Months after scientists announced "the strongest evidence yet" of liquid water on Mars, a study Monday said there was none at least in the valleys carved into n...
Insight shipped to California for March launch to Mars
Dec 21, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's next Mars spacecraft has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, for final preparations before a launch scheduled in March 2016 and a landing o...
University researchers test prototype spacesuits at Kennedy
Dec 21, 2015 (SPX)
The spacesuits astronauts will wear while exploring the surface of Mars will protect the person inside, supply air and water, and be flexible enough that astron...
New Mars rover findings revealed at American Geophysical Union Conference
Dec 18, 2015 (SPX)
New findings by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover are the focus of a press conference this morning at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, C...
Rocks Rich in Silica Present Puzzles for Mars Rover Team
Dec 18, 2015 (JPL)
In detective stories, as the plot thickens, an unexpected clue often delivers more questions than answers. In this case, the scene is a mountain on Mars. The cl...
Opportunity performs a week of robotic arm at Marathon Valley
Dec 17, 2015 (JPL)
Opportunity is inside "Marathon Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned on a steep slope with an approximately 19-degree northerly ...
Study finds evidence for more recent clay formation on Mars
Dec 15, 2015 (SPX)
Recent orbital and rover missions to Mars have turned up ample evidence of clays and other hydrated minerals formed when rocks are altered by the presence of wa...
Opportunity on west rim of Endeavour Crater within Marathon Valley
Dec 12, 2015 (JPL)
The rover is positioned on steep, north-facing slopes for improved solar array energy production. On Sol 4202 (Nov. 19. 2105), the robotic arm was raised so Pan...
Curiosity reaches sand dunes
Dec 12, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has begun an up-close investigation of dark sand dunes up to two stories tall. The dunes are on the rover's trek up the lower portio...
NASA's Curiosity rover reaches Martian sand dunes
Dec 11, 2015 (UPI)
NASA's Curiosity rover is continuing its trek up Mount Sharp. Recently, the Mars rover reached a series of sand dunes covering a lower portion of the layered Ma...
Mars Mission Team Addressing Vacuum Leak on Key Science Instrument
Dec 07, 2015 (JPL)
A key science instrument that will be carried aboard NASA's Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft b...
Letter to Mars? Royal Mail works it out for British boy, 5
Dec 04, 2015 (AFP)
Britain's Royal Mail has turned to NASA for help after a five-year-old boy wrote in asking how much it would cost to post a letter to Mars. But Oliver Geddings ...
European payload selected for ExoMars 2018 surface platform
Dec 01, 2015 (ESA)
Two European instruments and four European contributions on two Russian instruments have been selected for the Russian-led science platform that will land on Ma...
ExoMars has historical, practical significance for Russia, Europe
Nov 27, 2015 (Sputnik)
The ExoMars program to explore the environment on Mars has historical and practical significance for Russia and Europe, deputy-head of the Russian space agency ...
Tracking down the 'missing' carbon from the Martian atmosphere
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
Mars is blanketed by a thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere--one that is far too thin to prevent large amounts of water on the surface of the planet from subl...
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