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Mars rover ingests rock powder for tests
Feb 25, 2013 (UPI)
NASA scientists say two compact laboratories inside the Mars rover Curiosity have ingested the first rock powder ever collected from inside a martian rock. Curi...
India plans mission to Mars in 2013
Feb 21, 2013 (AFP)
India said on Thursday it will send a $70 million space mission to Mars this year to study the red planet's atmosphere. The unmanned Mars orbiter mission, to be...
NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample
Feb 21, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on anot...
Rover finds gray rock beneath Red Planet's surface
Feb 20, 2013 (AFP)
So much for Mars being "The Red Planet." NASA said Wednesday that its Curiosity rover has scooped up a sample from the interior of a Martian rock and found that...
At the mouth of the red valley
Feb 19, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's Mars Express took a high-resolution stereo image on 13 January of the southeast corner of the Amenthes Planum region on Mars, near to Palos crater and the...
Bleach could hamper Mars life search
Feb 18, 2013 (UPI)
A martian meteorite frozen in antarctic ice suggests we may need to dig deeper into Mars to search for traces of past life, U.S. researchers say. Scientists at ...
NASA's MAVEN Mission Completes Assembly
Feb 18, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilitie...
Mars Rock Takes Unusual Form
Feb 14, 2013 (JPL)
On Mars, as on Earth, sometimes things can take on an unusual appearance. A case in point is a shiny-looking rock seen in a recent image from NASA's Curiosity M...
Rover Walkabout Continues at Cape York
Feb 14, 2013 (JPL)
Opportunity is conducting the post-walkabout in-situ (contact) science campaign on the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3208 (Ja...
How The World's Saltiest Pond Gets Its Salt; Implications For Water On Mars
Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)
Antarctica's Don Juan Pond might be the unlikeliest body of water on Earth. Situated in the frigid McMurdo Dry Valleys, only the pond's high salt content - by f...
Lockheed Martin Completes Assembly, Begins Environmental Testing of NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft
Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin has completed the assembly of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. The orbiter is now undergoing environmental test...
NASA Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample
Feb 11, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample ...
In milestone, Mars rover collects first bedrock sample
Feb 09, 2013 (AFP)
In a first, the Mars rover Curiosity has penetrated a rock on the Red Planet and collected a sample from its interior, the US space agency announced Saturday. U...
Mars rover successfully negotiates risky move over sand dune
Feb 07, 2013 (UPI)
The Mars rover Curiosity successfully negotiated its way across the largest sand dune it has encountered, NASA said. Riding the dune, about a yard high and 10 y...
Sampling Several Rock Targets
Feb 06, 2013 (JPL)
Opportunity is moving around the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater, performing in-situ (contact) science investigations. On Sol 3200 (J...
Mapping Mars
Feb 06, 2013 (ESA)
Nearly 90% of Mars' surface has been mapped by the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express, which celebrates ten years since launch this June. The m...
Weekend Test on Mars Was Preparation to Drill a Rock
Feb 06, 2013 (JPL)
The bit of the rock-sampling drill on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity left its mark on a Martian rock this weekend during brief testing of the tool's percussive act...
Russia proposes water-hunting instrument for future Mars rover
Feb 04, 2013 (UPI)
Russian scientists have proposed an instrument for an upcoming NASA Mars rover to search for underground water that could support life on the Red Planet. The in...
AAS Division For Planetary Sciences Issues Statement On Mars 2020 Program
Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)
The following statement from the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences was prepared in collaboration with the Planetary Society, the A...
Curiosity Maneuver Prepares for Drilling
Jan 31, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has placed its drill onto a series of four locations on a Martian rock and pressed down on it with the rover's arm, in preparation f...
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