Curiosity Returns Images of “Snake River” & Explores “Yellowknife Bay”
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…
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…
NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to explore the Martian surface, approaching an area called “Yellowknife Bay,” which is a potential location for selecting the first target…
Instruments aboard Curiosity have analyzed samples of the atmosphere collected near the “Rocknest” site in Gale Crater, finding that the top of the Martian atmosphere…
Using its Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument, NASA’s Curiosity rover has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils…
NASA’s Curiosity rover continues its research on Mars. The latest images were taken by its Mars Hand Lens Imager and show diverse rocks found in…
Using Curiosity’s arm-mounted Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument and the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument, scientists examined the chemical makeup of the football-size rock…
NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to assess a small plastic object discovered on the surface of Mars. It is believed that the object is something from…
NASA scientists are preparing Curiosity to take its first scoop of soil for analysis, which will likely occur at the “Rocknest” site – a windblown,…
While examining two outcrops, called “Hottah” and “Link,” NASA’s Curiosity rover found evidence that a stream once ran between the north rim of Gale Crater…
NASA engineers are planning to run Curiosity’s arm through six to 10 consecutive days of activities to test the 7-foot arm and the tools it…
Using the 100-millimeter telephoto lens and the 34-millimeter wide angle lens of the Mast Camera instrument, Curiosity beamed back a new image of the base…
The results are coming in and they look good. Scientists confirmed that the ChemCam laser on NASA’s Curiosity rover has produced strong, clear data about…
Over the last few weeks NASA’s Curiosity rover has been recording weather measurements and soil samples with its Chemistry and Camera instrument laser; now Curiosity…
NASA’s Curiosity rover fired its Chemistry and Camera instrument laser for the first time, hitting a fist-sized rock with 30 pulses of its laser during…
The HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this color-enhanced image of the Curiosity rover on Mars as it begins to explore the Gale…
Composed from several images taken by the 34-millimeter Mast Camera on Curiosity, this new image is the first 360-degree color panorama of the Gale Crater…
NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to take images of Mars surface and Gale Crater. These latest images include the first full-resolution images of the Martian surface…
Using the HiRISE camera, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a new image of Curiosity and the components that helped it survive its seven-minutes of terror…