Solar Conjunction: NASA’s Mars Fleet Lies Low With Sun Between Earth and Red Planet
The missions will continue collecting data about the Red Planet, though engineers back on Earth will stop sending commands to them until mid-October. NASA will…
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Explores a Changing Landscape – Video Tour of Martian Mountain
A new video rings in the rover’s ninth year on Mars, letting viewers tour Curiosity’s location on a Martian mountain. Images of knobbly rocks and…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Reveals New Understanding of Rock Record, Evidence of Possible Signs of Ancient Life
A new paper enriches scientists’ understanding of where the rock record preserved or destroyed evidence of Mars’ past and possible signs of ancient life. Today,…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Strange Shimmering Iridescent Clouds on Mars
The science team is studying the clouds, which arrived earlier and formed higher than expected, to learn more about the Red Planet. Cloudy days are…
See NASA’s Curiosity Rover’s Stunning 360-Degree View Atop “Mont Mercou” on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree panorama while atop “Mont Mercou,” a rock formation that offered a view into Gale Crater below. The panorama…
Mars Report: Update on NASA’s Perseverance Rover & Curiosity Rover [Video]
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on the surface of Mars since February of 2021, joining NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been studying the Red Planet…
Mars Curiosity Rover Explores Stratigraphy of Gale Crater: Finds Multiple Transitions Between Drier and Wetter Climates
Gale Crater’s central sedimentary mound (Aeolis Mons or, informally, Mount Sharp) is a 5.5-km-tall remnant of the infilling and erosion of this ancient impact crater….
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Team Names Martian Hill That Serves as Mission “Gateway”
The name honors recently deceased mission scientist Rafael Navarro-González, who helped lead the team that identified ancient organic compounds on Mars. The team of scientists…
Curiosity Rover Finds That Mars Did Not Dry Up All at Once
Mars had dry and wet eras and dried up for good 3 billion years ago. While attention has been focused on the Perseverance rover that…
Mars Didn’t Dry Up in One Go – Martian Climate Cycled Between Dry and Wet Periods
The Perseverance rover has just landed on Mars. Meanwhile, its precursor Curiosity continues to explore the base of Mount Sharp (officially Aeolis Mons), a mountain…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Stunning Selfie With ‘Mont Mercou’
The rover also snapped a pair of panoramas to create a 3D view of the stark cliff face featured in the selfie. At the start…
Stunning Martian Panorama Celebrates NASA’s Curiosity Rover’s 3,000th Day on Mars
As the rover has continued to ascend Mount Sharp, it’s found distinctive benchlike rock formations. It’s been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Takes Selfie With “Mary Anning” on the Red Planet
The Mars rover has drilled three samples of rock in this clay-enriched region since first arriving in July. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has a new…
8 Thrilling Martian Postcards to Celebrate NASA Curiosity Mars Rover’s Anniversary
The NASA rover touched down eight years ago, on August 5, 2012, and will soon be joined by a second rover, Perseverance. NASA’s Curiosity Mars…
Curiosity Mars Rover’s Summer Road Trip – “We’re Uncovering an Ancient World”
After more than a year in a clay-rich region, Curiosity is making a mile-long journey around some deep sand so that it can explore higher…
See Earth and Venus in the Martian Sky as Viewed by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover
This new portrait of the Red Planet’s neighbors was taken during a time when there’s more dust in the air on Mars. NASA’s Curiosity Mars…
ATTN: NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Drivers Need Your Help
Using an online tool to label Martian terrain types, you can train an artificial intelligence algorithm that could improve the way engineers guide the Curiosity…
Clues to Chilly Ancient Mars Buried in Rocks Discovered by NASA’s Curiosity Rover
By studying the chemical elements on Mars today — including carbon and oxygen — scientists can work backwards to piece together the history of a…