MARS - SKY NIGHTLY

Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)

If desert mirages occur on Mars, "Lake Gusev" belongs among them. This come-and-go body of ancient water has come and gone more than once, at least in the eyes ...

Russian Astronaut Misurkin Dreams of Going to the Moon, Mars

Apr 09, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

A Russian astronaut Alexander Misurkin thinks humankind should not stop at the exploration of near-Earth space but rather go further in the universe, the explor...

Images From NASA Mars Rover Include Bright Spots

Apr 09, 2014 (JPL)

Images taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on April 2 and April 3 include bright spots, which might be due to the sun glinting off a rock or cosmic rays striki...

Mars Exploration in a Deep Mine

Apr 09, 2014 (SPX)

This week, twenty European scientists will gather at Boulby mine in the UK to begin testing technologies for the exploration of Mars and hunting for deep subsur...

Journey to Mars Only Possible With International Cooperation

Apr 09, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

Dmitry Znamensky - No single country has the resources to carry out an expedition to Mars, but together mankind does have the technological capability required ...

India's mission to Mars crosses half-way mark

Apr 09, 2014 (AFP)

India's first mission to Mars successfully crossed the half-way mark on Wednesday, four months after leaving on an voyage to the Red Planet scheduled to take 11...

What's so hard about counting craters?

Apr 08, 2014 (SPX)

Providing a rare glimpse of the trade secrets of planetary scientists, the journal Icarus published a study this month that compared lunar crater counts by eigh...

Opportunity Moves Further Southwest On Murray Ridge

Apr 08, 2014 (JPL)

Opportunity is exploring 'Murray Ridge,' part of the west rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3617 (March 28, 2014), the rover continued further to the southwest on...

Curiosity Scoping Out Next Study Area

Apr 07, 2014 (JPL)

On Wednesday, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove the last 98 feet feet (30 meters) needed to arrive at a site planned since early 2013 as a destination for study...

Health risks of Mars mission would exceed NASA limits

Apr 02, 2014 (AFP)

Efforts to send humans to Mars would likely expose them to health risks beyond the limits of what NASA currently allows, an independent panel of medical experts...

Mars and Earth move closer together this month

Apr 01, 2014 (UPI)

Spring is here, love is in the air, and Mars and Earth are getting a little closer this time of year. For the next two weeks, the two neighborly planets will co...

Mars yard ready for Red Planet rover

Mar 31, 2014 (ESA)

A state-of-the-art 'Mars yard' is now ready to put the ExoMars rover through its paces before the vehicle is launched to the Red Planet in 2018. ESA, the UK Spa...

The Opposition of Mars

Mar 31, 2014 (SPX)

By the time you finish reading this story, you'll be about 1,000 km closer to the planet Mars. Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter. As March giv...

Cleaner NASA Rover Sees Its Shadow in Martian Spring

Mar 28, 2014 (JPL)

Late afternoon lighting produced a dramatic shadow of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity photographed by the rover's rear hazard-avoidance camera on Marc...

Mars One building simulated colony to vet potential colonists

Mar 26, 2014 (UPI)

Mars One is a a private, Netherlands-based push to realize a human colony on the red planet by 2025. In an email statement to Popular Science Thursday, Mars One...

Mars-mimicking chamber explores habitability of other planets

Mar 26, 2014 (SPX)

A research team in Spain has the enviable job of testing out new electromechanical gear for potential use in future missions to the "Red Planet." They do it wit...

Helpful Wind Cleans Solar Panels On Opportunity Mars Rover

Mar 25, 2014 (JPL)

Opportunity is exploring 'Murray Ridge' on Solander Point, part of the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover continues to investigate the region called 'Cook Haven...

Mars on Earth: vacuum chambers mimic the Red Planet

Mar 25, 2014 (AFP)

Scientists have built Mars here on Earth -- at least within the walls of a simulation chamber that mimics conditions on the Red Planet down to its Martian dust,...

NASA Mars Rover's Next Stop Has Sandstone Variations

Mar 25, 2014 (JPL)

Variations in the stuff that cements grains together in sandstone have shaped the landscape surrounding NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and could be a study topic a...

NASA Orbiter Finds New Gully Channel on Mars

Mar 20, 2014 (JPL)

This pair of before (left) and after (right) images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter do...