MARS

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Opportunity Runs the First Martian Marathon
Jul 19, 2012 (SPX)
With all the fanfare about Mars rover Curiosity landing on the Red Planet in August 2012, it's easy to forget that there's already a rover on Mars-an older, sma...
NASA Conducts Mission Simulations In Hawaii
Jul 19, 2012 (SPX)
NASA is conducting a nine-day field test starting Tuesday outside Hilo, Hawaii, to evaluate new exploration techniques for the surface of the moon. These missio...
Opportunity Continues to Explore Rocks on the Rim of Endeavour Crater
Jul 18, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is still exploring the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Most of this period focused on analyzing the rock target "Grasberg" wi...
Follow Your Curiosity: Some New Ways to Explore Mars
Jul 17, 2012 (JPL)
As NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity prepares to land on Mars, public audiences worldwide can take their own readiness steps to share in the adventure. Landing is sch...
Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing
Jul 17, 2012 (JPL)
A maneuver on Tuesday adjusted the flight path of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target beside a Mart...
Orbiter Enters, Then Exits, Standby Safe Mode
Jul 17, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter experienced about 21 hours in a reduced-activity precautionary status ending at about 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, July 12....
NASA's Car-Sized Rover Nears Daring Landing on Mars
Jul 17, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's most advanced planetary rover is on a precise course for an early August landing beside a Martian mountain to begin two years of unprecedented scientific...
Developing Technologies For Living Off the Land...In Space
Jul 17, 2012 (SPX)
Each spacecraft, crewed or robotic, encounters an extraordinary spectrum of vast resources throughout its journey. From the first space missions onward, space a...
NASA's Mars rover two weeks from landing
Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)
NASA's Curiosity rover is on target to arrive on Mars on August 6 for a two-year mission to find out whether microbial life once existed on the Red Planet, the ...
India likely to approve Mars mission
Jul 16, 2012 (UPI)
India's government is expected to give its approval for the country to embark on an unmanned mission to Mars, the Indian Space Research Organization said. "Indi...
Final Six-Member Crew Selected for Mars Food Mission
Jul 09, 2012 (SPX)
After receiving more than 700 applications, a team of researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Cornell University have selected six individuals to...
Opportunity Celebratres 3,000 Martian Days of Operation on the Surface of Mars!
Jul 09, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity has now exceeded 3,000 sols, or Martian days, of operation on the surface of Mars! The rover is still exploring the north end of Cape York on the ri...
Life's molecules could lie within reach of Mars Curiosity rover
Jul 09, 2012 (SPX)
Stick a shovel in the ground and scoop. That's about how deep scientists need to go in order to find evidence for ancient life on Mars, if there is any to be fo...
NASA Mars images 'next best thing to being there'
Jul 08, 2012 (AFP)
The US space agency NASA has recently pieced together a panoramic view from the camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, calling it the "next best t...
Evidence for Mars Life Could Come From Phobos
Jul 06, 2012 (SPX)
A mission to a martian moon could return with alien life, according to experts at Purdue University, but don't expect the invasion scenario presented by summer ...
Opportunity Uses Robotic Arm Tools on Rock
Jul 06, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity continues to explore the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater, specifically the transition layer between Cape York and Meridiani Pl...
Mars Panorama: Next Best Thing to Being There
Jul 06, 2012 (JPL)
From fresh rover tracks to an impact crater blasted billions of years ago, a newly completed view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration ...
Butterfly ejecta and wrinkle ridges in Melas Dorsa
Jul 06, 2012 (SPX)
On 17 April 2012, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on board ESA...
Fireworks Over Mars: The Spirit of 76 Pyrotechnics
Jul 03, 2012 (JPL)
One month and a day after celebrating its independence with fireworks exhibitions throughout the country, America will carry its penchant for awe-inspiring aeri...
Getting a Feel for the Terrain
Jun 29, 2012 (SPX)
It's a hot summer day, and your eyes spot an ice cream cart up ahead. Without even really thinking, you start walking that direction. Planetary scientists would...
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