MARS - SKY NIGHTLY

Aug 13, 2013 (JPL)

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is switching from one motion-sensing device to a duplicate unit onboard. The veteran orbiter relies on this inertial measurem...

Opportunity Reaches Base of 'Solander Point'

Aug 12, 2013 (JPL)

Opportunity is at the base of 'Solander Point' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover arrived at the edge of Solander Point with a series of drives on Sols 3...

NASA launches new Russian-language Mars website

Aug 09, 2013 (SPX)

"A NASA website containing detailed images sent by a high-resolution camera orbiting Mars is now available in Russian, thanks to a 60-strong team of volunteer t...

Full Curiosity Traverse Passes One-Mile Mark

Aug 07, 2013 (JPL)

The total distance driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity passed the one-mile mark a few days before the first anniversary of the rover's landing on Mars. This m...

NASA Begins Launch Preparations for Next Mars Mission

Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)

NASA's next spacecraft going to Mars arrived Friday, Aug. 2, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and is now perched in a cleanroom to begin final p...

Big ice may explain Mars' double-layer craters

Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)

Geologists from Brown University have developed a promising new explanation for a mysterious type of crater on the surface on Mars. Double-layered ejecta crater...

NASA Curiosity Rover Approaches First Anniversary on Mars

Aug 06, 2013 (JPL)

NASA's Curiosity rover will mark one year on Mars next week and has already achieved its main science goal of revealing ancient Mars could have supported life. ...

Curious craters on Mars said result of impacts into ancient ice

Aug 05, 2013 (UPI)

U.S. geologists say they've come up with a new explanation for a mysterious double-layer type of crater observed on Mars, and it's all about ice and impacts. Im...

Mars rover hoping to yield more secrets, one year on

Aug 04, 2013 (AFP)

The dazzling success of NASA's rover Curiosity has paved the way for a human conquest of Mars, scientists say, almost one year after the groundbreaking probe fi...

Space cadets in Washington for one-way ticket to Mars

Aug 03, 2013 (AFP)

Around 40 volunteers from thousands who applied for a one-way ticket to Mars gathered in the US capital Saturday to hear from the man behind plans to colonize t...

Mars Rover Opportunity Nears Solander Point

Jul 30, 2013 (JPL)

Opportunity has arrived in the region near the base of 'Solander Point.' At the current location, the rover is just a few drives from making landfall on the poi...

Curiosity Mars Rover Gleams in View from Orbiter

Jul 26, 2013 (JPL)

An image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and the wheel tracks from its landing site to the "Glenelg" area where the ro...

Scientists establish age of Mars meteorites found on Earth

Jul 24, 2013 (UPI)

A team led by Canadian researchers says the most common meteorites from Mars found on Earth are almost 4 billion years younger than believed. Scientists at the ...

Ancient snowfall likely carved Martian valleys

Jul 24, 2013 (SPX)

Valley networks branching across the Martian surface leave little doubt that water once flowed on the Red Planet. But where that ancient water came from - wheth...

Mars Curiosity sets one-day driving distance record

Jul 23, 2013 (UPI)

NASA says its Curiosity rover on Mars has set a personal best, driving twice as far on Sunday as on any other day of the mission so far. Starting from a locatio...

How Mars' atmosphere got so thin: New insights from Curiosity

Jul 19, 2013 (SPX)

New findings from NASA's Curiosity rover provide clues to how Mars lost its original atmosphere, which scientists believe was much thicker than the one left tod...

Reports Detail Mars Rover Clues to Atmosphere's Past

Jul 19, 2013 (JPL)

A pair of new papers report measurements of the Martian atmosphere's composition by NASA's Curiosity rover, providing evidence about loss of much of Mars' origi...

MAVEN Spectrometer Opens Window to Red Planet's Past

Jul 19, 2013 (SPX)

When NASA's MAVEN mission begins its journey to the Red Planet later this year, it will be equipped with a special instrument to take the planet back in time. T...

Curiosity Mars Rover Passes Kilometer of Driving

Jul 18, 2013 (JPL)

The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer. One kilometer is about 0....

Overhead View of Mars Rover 10 Years After Launch

Jul 18, 2013 (JPL)

An image from Mars orbit taken 10 years after the launch of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the long-lived rover on its trek to a new destinatio...