Curiosity Rover Drills Second Rock Target
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…
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…
Scientists have chosen the second drilling site for the Curiosity rover on Mars. The team operating NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target…
Using a climate model adapted to the special conditions on Mars, researchers believe they can reliably predict snowstorms on Mars far in advance, helping future…
In a newly published study, scientists from Princeton University and the California Institute of Technology suggest that Mount Sharp most likely emerged as strong winds…
ESA’s Mars Express has captured new images of a region on Mars known as Sulci Gordii, which lies about 200 km east of Olympus Mons….
In a project funded through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts Program, researchers from University of Washington and MSNW are calculating the potential for expeditions to Mars…
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. Mars…
A sequence of seven images shows how the parachute used in Curiosity’s landing on Mars has shifted in response to wind. Photos from NASA’s Mars…
Astronomers around the world are monitoring Comet 2013 A1, watching to see if it will strike Mars. In a new ScienceCast video, experts discuss what…
Scheduled to launch in late 2013, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft will study the Martian upper atmosphere in detail, gathering information about relevant processes so scientists can…
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…
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…
Using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists create a 3D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took…
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…
Scientists have projected that comet 2013 A1 will make a very close approach to Mars in October 2014, possibly passing as close as 31,000 miles…
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…
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…
New images show that NASA’s Curiosity rover has successfully drilled and collected a rock powder sample from the Martian bedrock to be analyzed. NASA’s Curiosity…