MARS

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Rover eyes 'man-made' objects in Martian dirt
Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)
NASA's Mars rover has swallowed its first scoopful of dirt from the Red Planet's surface -- and found some bright-colored objects that experts briefly thought m...
NMSU Graduate Student Looks For Indications Of Life On Mars In Possible Trace Methane Gas
Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)
An astronomy graduate student at New Mexico State University spoke Tuesday about her research studying the possible detection of methane gas on Mars at a presen...
Rover's Second Scoop Discarded, Third Scoop Commanded
Oct 16, 2012 (JPL)
Commands will be sent to Curiosity instructing the rover to collect a third scoop of soil from the "Rocknest" site of windblown Martian sand and dust. Pending e...
Robotic Arm Tools Get To Work On Rock Outcrop
Oct 15, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaign at a location where orbital observations show the presence of clay minerals at the inboard edge ...
Curiosity Preparing for Second Scoop
Oct 15, 2012 (JPL)
On Sol 65 (Oct. 11, 2012) of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed several activities in preparation for collecting its sec...
Mars Rock Touched by NASA Curiosity has Surprises
Oct 12, 2012 (JPL)
The first Martian rock NASA's Curiosity rover has reached out to touch presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions. The rock also re...
Meteorite delivers Martian secrets to University of Alberta researcher
Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)
A meteorite that landed in the Moroccan desert 14 months ago is providing more information about Mars, the planet where it originated. University of Alberta res...
Resume Working with First Scooped Sample
Oct 11, 2012 (JPL)
The team operating Curiosity decided on Oct. 9, 2012, to proceed with using the rover's first scoop of Martian material. Plans for Sol 64 (Oct. 10) call for shi...
Mars rover makes surprising rock find
Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)
A rock analyzed by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has a surprising and more varied composition that resembles rare rocks from the bowels of our planet, the US spac...
Curiosity Update: Object Likely Benign Plastic from Curiosity Rover
Oct 10, 2012 (JPL)
Curiosity's main activity in the 62nd sol of the mission (Oct. 8, 2012) was to image a small, bright object on the ground using the Remote Micro-Imager of the C...
First Scoopful A Success
Oct 10, 2012 (JPL)
On the mission's 61st Martian day, or sol (Oct. 7, 2012),NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its soil scoop for the first time, collecting a scoopful of sand and p...
Checking a Bright Object on the Ground
Oct 10, 2012 (JPL)
Curiosity's first scooping activity appeared to go well on Oct. 7. Subsequently, the rover team decided to refrain from using the rover's robotic arm on Oct. 8 ...
China to collect samples from Mars by 2030: Xinhua
Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)
China is planning to collect samples from the surface of Mars by 2030, according to the chief scientist of the country's lunar orbiter project, state media repo...
Mars rover finds 'bright object'
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered a "bright object" in the red soil of Mars that might be a part of the robotic explorer that broke off, the US space agency ...
The Hunt for Clay Minerals Continues
Oct 09, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaign at a putative location of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour...
Ice-clad beauty on the 'Silver Island' of Mars
Oct 08, 2012 (SPX)
On 8 June 2012, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on board ESA'...
Russia, U.S. to send crew to ISS for year
Oct 06, 2012 (UPI)
A Russian cosmonaut and a U.S. astronaut will fly to the International Space Station for the first-ever yearlong mission in 2015, officials said. The Russian Fe...
From 'Bathurst Inlet' to 'Rocknest'
Oct 05, 2012 (JPL)
On Sol 55 (Oct. 1, 2012), Curiosity finished observations at the "Bathurst Inlet" rock target it had examined with instruments on the arm. Then the rover comple...
Mars rover to 'sandblast' sampling equipment
Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is parked at a sand pit and ready to scoop up soil to clean and test its geological sampling hardware, the US space agency said Thur...
Gale Crater Set for Summer Heat Wave?
Oct 04, 2012 (SPX)
Preliminary weather reports from the Curiosity's Remote Environment Monitoring Station (REMS) are showing some surprisingly mild temperatures during the day. Av...
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