NASA’s Curiosity Readies for First Drive on Mars
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…
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…
Set to launch in 2016, NASA’s new Discovery-class mission, called InSight, will probe Mars at new depths by looking into the deep interior of Mars…
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…
Taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the afternoon of the first day after landing, the above image is Curiosity’s first color image…
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…
On a mission to explore interstellar space, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft showed a rapid increase in the levels of high-energy cosmic ray particles, jumping by…
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…
Using data from three independent satellites to analyze the extent of surface melt over Greenland’s ice sheet, NASA and university scientists found that ice melting…
Using images taken from Cassini-Huygens, a team of researchers analyzed and mapped 52 prominent liquid methane river networks from four regions on Saturn’s moon Titan,…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured an image of lightning striking within a huge storm that encircled Saturn’s northern hemisphere, providing scientists with a great opportunity to…
Located 33 light-years away, exoplanet candidate UCF-1.01 was discovered when astronomers studying exoplanet GJ 436b noticed slight dips in the amount of infrared light streaming…
Designed by scientists at the California Institute of Technology and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a new amplifier using titanium nitride and niobium titanium nitride…
Scientists at NASA gathered records and analyzed old Droppler data to see if they could definitively figure out the source of the deceleration of NASA’s…