MARS - SKY NIGHTLY

Used Parachute on Mars Flaps in the Wind

Apr 04, 2013 (SPX)

These seven HiRISE images were acquired between August 12, 2012 and January 13, 2013, and show distinct changes in the parachute (at bottom, attached to the bac...

BusinessCom Networks Connects Mars 2013

Apr 03, 2013 (SPX)

Last month in the northern Sahara desert in Morocco, an international group of scientists conducted a series of experiments in preparation for future human miss...

Opportunity Moves Into Place for Quiet Period of Operations

Apr 01, 2013 (JPL)

This location, called 'Big Nickel,' is the last in-situ (contact) target before the rover departs from Cape York, once solar conjunction is concluded. Solar con...

SwRI study finds liquid water flowing above and below frozen Alaskan sand dunes, hints of a wetter Mars

Apr 01, 2013 (SPX)

The presence of liquid water at and beneath frozen Alaskan sand dunes during Arctic winter suggests that liquid water could also be temporarily stable (or metas...

Measuring Mars: The MAVEN Magnetometer

Mar 28, 2013 (SPX)

When the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission begins its journey to the Red Planet in 2013, it will carry a sensitive magnetic-field instrumen...

Opportunity Heads to Matijevic Hill

Mar 26, 2013 (JPL)

After returning to the location called 'Kirkwood,' Opportunity completed a busy contact investigation of the mysterious 'newberry' spherules seen there. On Sol ...

Digging for hidden treasure on Mars

Mar 26, 2013 (ESA)

ESA's Mars Express has spent nearly ten years imaging the Red Planet, and there are plenty of hidden treasures buried in the mission's rich picture archive. HRS...

Curiosity Resumes Science Investigations

Mar 26, 2013 (JPL)

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has resumed science investigations after recovery from a computer glitch that prompted the engineers to switch the rover to a redund...

Sun in the Way Will Affect Mars Missions in April

Mar 22, 2013 (JPL)

The positions of the planets next month will mean diminished communications between Earth and NASA's spacecraft at Mars. Mars will be passing almost directly be...

Curiosity Rover Exits 'Safe Mode'

Mar 21, 2013 (JPL)

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has returned to active status and is on track to resume science investigations, following two days in a precautionary standby status...

Los Alamos science sleuth on the trail of a Martian mystery

Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)

When it comes to examining the surface of rocks on Mars with a high-powered laser, five is a magic number for Los Alamos National Laboratory postdoctoral resear...

Curiosity Mars Rover Sees Trend in Water Presence

Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has seen evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled rock. Last week,...

ChemCam data abundant at Planetary Conference

Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)

Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team will present more than two dozen posters and talks next week during the 44th Lunar and Plane...

NASA's next Mars mission invites public to come aboard

Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)

NASA's next Mars mission is giving students and the public worldwide an opportunity to have a personal connection with space exploration through a new education...

ISS Cosmonauts Model Manually Controlled Landing on Mars

Mar 20, 2013 (RIA Novosti)

For the first time, two Russian cosmonauts simulated a manually controlled landing from the orbit on Mars after they spent half a year in the space, a deputy he...

NASA Curiosity rover back online after memory glitch

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, is back on active status Tuesday, after a memory glitch set t...

Software glitch in NASA Mars rover

Mar 18, 2013 (UPI)

NASA says its Mars Curiosity rover that put itself into "safe mode" because of a software issue is expected to resume science investigations in a few days. The ...

Particles and Fields Package Integrated on Upcoming Mars-Bound Spacecraft

Mar 18, 2013 (SPX)

The six science instruments that comprise the Particles and Fields Package that will characterize the solar wind and ionosphere of Mars have been integrated abo...

Panorama From NASA Mars Rover Shows Mount Sharp

Mar 18, 2013 (JPL)

Rising above the present location of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the United States, Mount Sharp is feat...

Opportunity Departing South Soon

Mar 18, 2013 (JPL)

Opportunity is completing the in-situ (contact) investigation of the terrain on the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of 'Endeavour Crater' before departing ...