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Mars Rover Opportunity Ends Mission After 15 Years
Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)
Over the course of its scientific mission, led by an Earth-bound Cornell professor, Opportunity returned hundreds of thousands of images and reshaped our unders...
NASA to make final attempt to contact Mars Opportunity Rover
Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)
The agency also said it would hold a briefing Wednesday, during which it will likely officially declare the end of the mission. Opportunity landed on Mars in 20...
Developing a flight strategy to land heavier vehicles on Mars
Feb 12, 2019 (SPX)
Normally, when a vehicle enters the Mars atmosphere at hypersonic speeds of about Mach 30, it slows down quickly, deploys a parachute to slow down more then use...
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft shrinking its Mars orbit to prepare for Mars 2020 Rover
Feb 12, 2019 (SPX)
"The MAVEN spacecraft has done a phenomenal job teaching us how Mars lost its atmosphere and providing other important scientific insights on the evolution of t...
More than 835 recovery commands have been sent to Opportunity
Feb 11, 2019 (JPL)
No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018) during the historic global dust storm. Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault...
Curiosity Mars Rover Departs Vera Rubin Ridge
Feb 11, 2019 (JPL)
Even though the rover has left the ridge, Curiosity's team is still piecing together the story of its formation. While there have been a number of clues so far,...
ESA's Mars rover has a name - Rosalind Franklin
Feb 08, 2019 (ESA)
A panel of experts chose 'Rosalind Franklin' from over 36 000 entries submitted by citizens from all ESA Member States, following a competition launched by the ...
Beyond Mars, the Mini MarCO Spacecraft Fall Silent
Feb 06, 2019 (JPL)
Now well past Mars, the daring twins seem to have reached their limit. It's been over a month since engineers have heard from MarCO, which followed NASA's InSig...
InSight's Seismometer Now Has a Cozy Shelter on Mars
Feb 05, 2019 (JPL)
The Wind and Thermal Shield helps protect the supersensitive instrument from being shaken by passing winds, which can add "noise" to its data. The dome's aerody...
Research Uses Curiosity Rover to Measure Gravity on Mars
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
In a research paper published January 31, 2019 in the journal Science, the researchers detail how they repurposed data from navigational sensors aboard NASA's C...
What Can Curiosity Tell Us About How a Martian Mountain Formed
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists still aren't sure how this mountain grew inside of the crater, which has been a longstanding mystery. One idea is that sediment once filled Gale Crat...
Mars Rover Curiosity Makes Gravity-Measuring Traverse
Jan 31, 2019 (SPX)
The findings, to be published February 1, 2019, in the journal Science, show that the layers are more porous than scientists had suspected. The discovery also g...
Curiosity Says Farewell to Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge
Jan 29, 2019 (JPL)
The twisting ridge on Mars has been the rover's home for more than a year, providing scientists with new samples - and new questions - to puzzle over. On Dec. 1...
NASA's Opportunity Rover Logs 15 Years on Mars
Jan 25, 2019 (JPL)
"Fifteen years on the surface of Mars is testament not only to a magnificent machine of exploration but the dedicated and talented team behind it that has allow...
ExoMars software passes ESA Mars Yard driving test
Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)
ESA's ExoMars rover will drive to multiple locations and drill down to two metres below the surface of Mars in search of clues for past life preserved undergrou...
Dust storm activity appears to pick up south of Opportunity
Jan 18, 2019 (JPL)
The storm is expected to increase in opacity (tau) at the rover site to greater than 1.5 over the next few days. No signal from Opportunity has been heard since...
Team selected by Canadian Space Agency to study Mars minerals
Jan 17, 2019 (SPX)
On Earth, X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) is the primary technique to determine the mineralogy of rocks and other natural materials. The minerals in a rock record its h...
UK tests self driving robots for Mars
Jan 03, 2019 (SPX)
New software developed in the UK will change this, enabling future Mars rovers to make their own decisions about where to go and how to get there, driving up to...
ExoMars mission has good odds of finding life on Mars if life exists.
Jan 01, 2019 (Sputnik)
While NASA's InSight spacecraft successfully landed on Mars and began studying its surface, Dr Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiologist and researcher at the Universit...
Over Six Months Without Word From Opportunity
Dec 24, 2018 (JPL)
No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss...
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