MARS - SKY NIGHTLY

ExoMars 2016 targets March launch window

Sep 22, 2015 (ESA)

A problem recently discovered in two sensors in the propulsion system of the entry, descent and landing demonstrator module has prompted the recommendation to m...

Expect Martian Colonies to Build Themselves First

Sep 18, 2015 (Sputnik)

Space explorers will travel to prefabricated colonies on the Moon, Mars and elsewhere, says the Self-deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments project (SHEE)....

Record-breaking astronauts return to Earth

Sep 17, 2015 (SPX)

Expedition 44 to the International Space Station has been successfully completed after three astronauts landed in Kazakhstan. The mission saw a cosmonaut clock ...

Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes

Sep 13, 2015 (JPL)

Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits tha...

Supervising two rovers from space

Sep 13, 2015 (ESA)

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is proving to be an expert space driver after commanding two rovers from space this week. As part of ESA's Meteron project, Andre...

Team Continues to Operate Rover in RAM Mode

Sep 13, 2015 (JPL)

Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater exploring for clay minerals. The rover is operating in persistent RAM mode (not usin...

Ridley Scott's 'The Martian' takes off in Toronto

Sep 12, 2015 (AFP)

Matt Damon got to relive his childhood fantasies of being an astronaut in Ridley Scott's 3D space epic "The Martian," where he portrays a character left for dea...

Sweeping over the south pole of Mars

Sep 11, 2015 (ESA)

An unusual observation by Mars Express shows a sweeping view over the planet's south polar ice cap and across its ancient, cratered highlands. The image was tak...

Opportunity Driving West To Reach New Rock Target

Sep 10, 2015 (JPL)

Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater exploring for phyllosilicate clay minerals. The rover is operating in persistent RAM...

One small step for man as astronaut controls robot from space

Sep 08, 2015 (AFP)

European experts have pulled off a major advance that might one day help build new worlds in space after an astronaut in the International Station Station remot...

What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere

Sep 03, 2015 (JPL)

Scientists may be closer to solving the mystery of how Mars changed from a world with surface water billions of years ago to the arid Red Planet of today. A new...

ASU instruments help scientists probe ancient Mars atmosphere

Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)

Mars was not always the arid Red Planet that we know today. Billions of years ago it was a world with watery environments - but how and why did it change? A new...

Opportunity brushes a rock and conducts in-situ studies

Sep 01, 2015 (JPL)

Opportunity is in 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater exploring for phyllosilicate clay minerals. The rover is operating in persistent RAM mod...

One year and counting: Mars isolation experiment begins

Aug 29, 2015 (AFP)

Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii on Friday, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering j...

HI-SEAS launches year-long isolation experiment to mimic life on Mars

Aug 29, 2015 (UPI)

Six scientists have begun a yearlong isolation experiment from within a small dome to mimic life on Mars. The latest Hawai'i Space Exploration Analog and Simula...

Destination Red Planet: Will Billionaires Fund a Private Mars Colony

Aug 27, 2015 (Sputnik)

With over 1,800 billionaires in the world, a sizeable investment from at least one of them could provide a major push to colonize the Red Planet. For nonprofit ...

Nine Real NASA Technologies in 'The Martian'

Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)

Mars has held a central place in human imagination and culture for millennia. Ancients marveled at its red color and the brightness that waxed and waned in cycl...

Opportunity gives clay-mineral rocks get closer inspection

Aug 25, 2015 (JPL)

Opportunity is in 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater exploring for phyllosilicate clay minerals. The rover is operating in persistent RAM mod...

Mars Rover Moves Onward After 'Marias Pass' Studies

Aug 20, 2015 (JPL)

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is driving toward the southwest after departing a region where for several weeks it investigated a geological contact zone and rocks...

NASA can send your name to Mars

Aug 19, 2015 (JPL)

Mars enthusiasts around the world can participate in NASA's journey to Mars by adding their names to a silicon microchip headed to the Red Planet aboard NASA's ...