As NASA’s Curiosity rover descended on Mars, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of Curiosity and its parachute with the High Resolution Imaging Science…
The above image is one of the first images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover after its successful landing on Mars. NASA’s most advanced Mars rover…
As the world readies for Curiosity’s “Seven Minutes of Terror” landing on Mars, William Shatner walks us through the process and details in this 4…
After entering safe mode on July 11th, NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft is now operating normally and used a six second thruster burn to adjust its…
Mission engineers continue to ready for the August Curiosity landing inside Gale Crater and the critical seven minute period when Curiosity must decelerate from about…
With NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity set to land in early August, NASA is finalizing a game development tool that will offer a 3-D interactive experience…
This video shares the challenges of Curiosity’s final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars, which is scheduled to occur at approximately 10:31 p.m….
In preparation for Curiosity’s exploration of Mount Sharp on Mars, NASA engineers took a test rover out to the desert for last minute training in…
Scientists hope to place Curiosity on flat ground at the foot of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater. Once in position, Curiosity will examine whether the…
NASA scientists successfully completed the second of six planned trajectory correction maneuvers and confirmed the health of science instruments onboard Curiosity this week. The Mars…
It took a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft to pull off the maneuver to refine its flight path while…
Whenever we send a spacecraft or rover to another planet NASA is very careful to make sure that it isn’t carrying biological contamination from Earth….
We’re heading back to Mars to search for any clues that might indicate life has or could exist on the big red planet. Of course,…
