MARS

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More Driving And Imaging At 'Matijevic Hill'
Nov 08, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is continuing the local area survey around the location called Matijevic Hill (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on...
Survey of 'Matijevic Hill' Continues
Nov 07, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity has completed approximately half of the local area survey around the location called Matijevic Hill (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboar...
Curiosity Team Switches Back to Earth Time
Nov 07, 2012 (JPL)
After three months working on "Mars time," the team operating NASA Mars rover Curiosity has switched to more regular hours, as planned. A Martian day, called a ...
Mars Longevity Champ Switching Computers
Nov 05, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, already the longest-working spacecraft ever sent to Mars, will switch to some fresh, redundant equipment next week that has not bee...
NASA Rover Finds Clues to Changes in Mars' Atmosphere
Nov 05, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere. Learning what happen...
Survey Of Matijevic Hill Continues
Nov 02, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity has completed approximately half of the local area survey around the location called Matijevic Hill (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboar...
Nereidum Montes helps unlock Mars' glacial past
Nov 02, 2012 (ESA)
On 6 June, the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express revisited the Argyre basin as featured in our October release, but this time aiming at Nereid...
Preliminary Self-Portrait of Curiosity by Rover's Arm Camera
Nov 02, 2012 (JPL)
On Sol 84 (Oct. 31, 2012), the Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture the set of thumbnail images stitched together to create this fu...
Curiosity's Tastes of Martian Soil Offer Insights on Mineral Composition
Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Curiosity rover has taken its first bites out of the Martian surface and used the materials scooped up, sieved and portioned to cleanse the palate of the...
Curiosity on Mars sits on rocks similar to those found in marshes in Mexico
Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)
Millions of years ago fire and water forged the gypsum rocks locked in at Cuatro Cienegas, a Mexican valley similar to the Martian crater where NASA's Rover Cur...
NASA Rover's First Soil Studies Help Fingerprint Martian Minerals
Oct 31, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin i...
Continuing Work With Scoops at 'Rocknest'
Oct 31, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity on Sol 82 (Oct. 29, 2012) used its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to photograph the diverse rocks in the "Rocknest" area and prepared...
Baumgartner: Mars travel a waste of money
Oct 27, 2012 (UPI)
Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner says he believes NASA's Mars mission is a waste of money that could be used for "saving our planet." Speaking with The Dail...
Assessing Drop-Off to Mars Rover's Observation Tray
Oct 26, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the mission's 78th sol (Oct. 24, 2012) to view soil material on the rover's observation tray. ...
Opportunity Undertakes Survey Drives Of Local Area
Oct 26, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is continuing a local area survey around the location called "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on...
Valles Marineris - the largest canyon in the Solar System
Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)
Mars is clearly much smaller than Earth, but it can still come up with impressive superlatives. Several landscape features have unquestionably enormous dimensio...
Curiosity Rover Collects Fourth Scoop of Martian Soil
Oct 23, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shook a scoopful of dusty sand inside its sample-handling mechanism on Sol 75 (Oct. 21, 2012) as the third scrubbing of interior sur...
How Space Station Can Help Humans Follow Curiosity to Mars and Beyond
Oct 19, 2012 (SPX)
With all of the excitement of the Mars Curiosity landing, many are looking to move from robots to humans for exploration beyond Earth's orbit. Keeping in mind t...
Opportunity Is On The Move Around 'Matijevic Hill'
Oct 19, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is conducting a local area survey around the location where orbital observations show the presence of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York...
Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover
Oct 19, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission...
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