MARS - SKY NIGHTLY

Oct 03, 2012 (AFP)

NASA's Mars rover took the post-PC revolution into space on Wednesday by using location-sharing mobile application Foursquare to "check-in" on the Red Planet. "...

Rock Grinding Action

Oct 01, 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...

Near Possible Target for Use of Arm Instruments

Oct 01, 2012 (JPL)

On Sol 52 (Sept. 28), Curiosity drove about 122 feet (37.3 meters) eastward toward the Glenelg area, using visual odometry to assess and adjust for any wheel sl...

Mars Rover Opportunity Working at 'Matijevic Hill'

Oct 01, 2012 (JPL)

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity, well into its ninth year on Mars, will work for the next several weeks or months at a site with some of the mission's most intrig...

Learning to live on Mars

Oct 01, 2012 (SPX)

Since the beginning of August, NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, has been roaming all over the distant planet learning as much as it can about the Martian terrain. ...

NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface

Sep 28, 2012 (JPL)

NASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is earlier evidence for...

Curiosity Completes Longest Drive Yet

Sep 28, 2012 (JPL)

On Sol 50 (Sept. 26), Curiosity completed its longest drive yet, rolling about 160 feet (48.9 meters) eastward toward the Glenelg area. The mission's total dist...

Where is Deimos?

Sep 27, 2012 (ESA)

Despite more than a century of observations, the orbit of the Martian moon Deimos is still not known to a high degree of accuracy, but a new study using images ...

Professor says NASA's Martian weather reports show extreme pressure swings

Sep 27, 2012 (SPX)

Curiosity, the NASA rover that landed on Mars last month, is sending us remarkable weather observations from the Martian surface that are attracting interest fr...

Mars-like Places on Earth Give Insights into Rover Data

Sep 27, 2012 (SPX)

Life thrives on Planet Earth. In even the most inhospitable places - the freezing Antarctic permafrost, Sun-baked salt pans in Tunisia or the corrosively acidic...

Curiosity Finishes Close Inspection of Rock Target

Sep 27, 2012 (JPL)

NASA's rover Curiosity touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept. 22, assessing what chemical elements are in the rock called "Jake...

A windshield wiper for Mars dust

Sep 26, 2012 (SPX)

A team of researchers at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) has developed a device that works as a windshield wiper to eliminate Mars dust from the sensors...

Why Curiosity Matters

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

Adam Steltzner doesn't sound much like an ordinary engineer. For instance, when we asked him if he would talk about Curiosity-and explain why the Mars rover mat...

NASA Mars Rover Targets Unusual Rock Enroute to First Destination

Sep 25, 2012 (JPL)

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine. Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) ...

Robotic Arm Tools Get to Work

Sep 25, 2012 (JPL)

Opportunity is continuing the in-situ (contact) science campaign at a putative location of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavou...

Curiosity's Stars and Stripes

Sep 24, 2012 (JPL)

This view of the American flag medallion on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 44th Martian day, or s...

NASA Mars Rover Targets Unusual Rock En Route to First Destination

Sep 21, 2012 (JPL)

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine. Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) ...

NASA-JPL director Charles Elachi talks about latest Mars mission

Sep 20, 2012 (SPX)

The car-sized Mars rover Curiosity, which landed on the Red Planet last month, is the biggest, most expensive and most ambitious planetary mission in many years...

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Looks at Ground Ahead, Moons Above

Sep 20, 2012 (JPL)

A series of daily drives has taken NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity to a vantage point about halfway to a science destination area called Glenelg. The rover has been...

'Jake Matijevic' Contact Target for Curiosity

Sep 20, 2012 (JPL)

The drive by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity during the mission's 43rd Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 19, 2012) ended with this rock about 8 feet (2.5 meters) in front...