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Curiosity Mars Rover Prepares for Fourth Rock Drilling
Aug 18, 2014 (JPL)
The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has chosen a rock that looks like a pale paving stone as the mission's fourth drilling target, if it passes engin...
Tall Boulder Rolls Down Martian Hill, Lands Upright
Aug 15, 2014 (JPL)
A track about one-third of a mile (500 meters) long on Mars shows where an irregularly shaped boulder careened downhill to its current upright position, seen in...
Opportunity Heads to 'Marathon Valley'
Aug 11, 2014 (JPL)
Opportunity is moving south along the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a notch observed from orbit to have an abundant clay miner...
Russia To Construct Landing Pad For ExoMars Mission
Aug 07, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will create a landing deck and provide a range of unique scientific equipment for a new Russian-European Mars mission known as ExoMars, Daniel Rodionov, ...
Robotic Rock Climbers Could Uncover Clues to Mars' Past
Aug 07, 2014 (NASA)
A robot that can scale the faces of steep cliffs might one day help explore Mars and find signs of life. The latest experiments with this "Cliffbot" showed it c...
NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Nears Mountain-Base Outcrop
Aug 06, 2014 (JPL)
As it approaches the second anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is also approaching its first close look at bedrock that is part of Mount...
NASA Mars Curiosity Rover: Two Years and Counting on Red Planet
Aug 06, 2014 (JPL)
NASA's most advanced roving laboratory on Mars celebrates its second anniversary since landing inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6,...
Los Alamos Laser Selected for 2020 Mars Mission
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
NASA has announced that laser technology originally developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been selected for its new Mars mission in 2020. "We are extr...
NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology invest...
Mars 2020 rover will carry tools to make oxygen
Jul 31, 2014 (AFP)
The suite of space-age tools loaded on NASA's next robotic vehicle, bound for the Red Planet in 2020, will include a device for making oxygen out of carbon diox...
NASA Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Passes 25 Miles of Driving
Jul 29, 2014 (JPL)
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of...
NASA's Mars Spacecraft Maneuvers to Prepare for Close Comet Flyby
Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)
NASA is taking steps to protect its Mars orbiters, while preserving opportunities to gather valuable scientific data, as Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring heads tow...
Emirates paves way for Middle East space program with mission to Mars
Jul 25, 2014 (SPX)
The United Arab Emirates has announced plans to launch a mission to Mars by 2021. A first for the Arab world, the mission and accompanying Space Agency are a bi...
NASA Seeks Proposals for Commercial Mars Data Relay Satellites
Jul 25, 2014 (JPL)
NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to investigate the possibility of using commercial Mars-orbiting satellites to provide telecommunications capabi...
India could return to Mars as early as 2017
Jul 23, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
India is ramping up for a follow-up mission to Mars between 2017 and 2020 which will be scientific in scope, the chairman for the Indian Space Research Organisa...
Curiosity's images show Earth-like soils on Mars
Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)
Soil deep in a crater dating to some 3.7 billion years ago contains evidence that Mars was once much warmer and wetter, says University of Oregon geologist Greg...
Scientists release most thorough map yet of Mars
Jul 22, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Scientists in the United States have produced a new map of Mars that experts say is unprecedented in detail and reveals previously unknown information about the...
NASA Rover's Images Show Laser Flash on Martian Rock
Jul 21, 2014 (JPL)
Flashes appear on a baseball-size Martian rock in a series of images taken Saturday, July 12 by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the arm of NASA's Cu...
ASU, USGS project yields sharpest map of Mars' surface properties
Jul 18, 2014 (SPX)
A heat-sensing camera designed at Arizona State University has provided data to create the most detailed global map yet made of Martian surface properties. The ...
Curiosity Finds Iron Meteorite on Mars
Jul 16, 2014 (JPL)
This rock encountered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is an iron meteorite called "Lebanon," similar in shape and luster to iron meteorites found on Mars by the ...
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