NASA’s Curiosity rover has completed the drilling of the second rock sample on Mars and should deliver portions of the sample in coming days to laboratory instruments inside the rover. Pasadena, California – NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a [...]

Scientists have chosen the second drilling site for the Curiosity rover on Mars. Pasadena, California — The team operating NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming days. This second drilling target, called “Cumberland,” lies about nine feet [...]

New data from NASA’s Curiosity rover helped reveal changes in the Martian atmosphere, providing the most precise measurements ever made of isotopes of argon. Vienna — Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what’s left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity indicate. Rover team members reported diverse findings today [...]

A sequence of seven images shows how the parachute used in Curiosity’s landing on Mars has shifted in response to wind. Pasadena, California – Photos from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA’s Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has subsequently changed its shape on the ground. The images were [...]

Using infrared-imaging and an instrument that shoots neutrons into the ground to probe for hydrogen, scientists have found more evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks on Mars. The Woodlands, Texas – NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has seen evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled rock. [...]

Researchers have identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon in the powder rock sample obtained by NASA’s Curiosity rover, suggesting that Mars could have supported life. Pasadena, California — An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, [...]

NASA has announced that they will hold a briefing to discuss the Curiosity rover’s analysis of the first sample of rock powder ever collected on Mars. NASA will hold the news conference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), Tuesday, March 12. The briefing, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, will be broadcast live on NASA [...]

NASA ground engineers have completed a computer swap for the Curiosity rover in response to a memory issue, shifting the rover into a minimal-activity precautionary status called “safe mode.” Pasadena, California – The ground team for NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue [...]

New images from NASA’s Curiosity rover confirm that it has successfully drilled and collected the first ever rock sample from the interior of a rock on another planet. Pasadena, California — NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a [...]

New images show that NASA’s Curiosity rover has successfully drilled and collected a rock powder sample from the Martian bedrock to be analyzed. Pasadena, California — NASA’s Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and [...]

If all goes as planned, NASA’s Curiosity rover may drill its first rock sample in the coming days, providing scientists with important details about the planets past history. Pasadena, California — NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red [...]

Over the holidays, NASA’s Curiosity rover returned new images of “Snake River” and is now in a shallow depression called “Yellowknife Bay.” This is the 147th day of the mission and Curiosity has driven 702 meters on the Martian surface. Pasadena, California – After imaging during the holidays, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity resumed driving Jan. [...]