A Look Back at Ten Years of Discoveries by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
The short video below shows images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s past decade of service at the Red Planet, revealing scientific discoveries and magnificent views…
The short video below shows images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s past decade of service at the Red Planet, revealing scientific discoveries and magnificent views…
Project managers have set a target launch date for NASA’s InSight mission to study the deep interior of Mars that begins May 5, 2018, with…
New observations from NASA’s MAVEN Mission have scientists closer to solving the mystery of how Mars’ moon Phobos formed. In late November and early December…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover continues its campaign to study active sand dunes on Mars, scooping and analyzing samples. At its current location for inspecting an…
This newly released image shows radial troughs on the surface of Mars. Mars’ seasonal cap of carbon dioxide ice has eroded many beautiful terrains as…
This highly detailed image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows boulders on the surface of Mars. The striking feature in this image, acquired by the…
Unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in a section of the prime instrument in the science payload has led to NASA’s decision to suspend the…
New research from Caltech and NASA offers an explanation for the “missing” carbon in the Martian atmosphere, showing that a transition from a moderately dense…
This image from ESA’s Mars Express features the small crater embedded in the northwestern rim of the Schiaparelli impact basin. All around is evidence for…
This new image from NASA’s Curiosity Rover shows the “Garden City” site and surroundings on Mount Sharp. This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on…
New research presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences reveals that the long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos…
Using 10 years of data from Mars Express, scientists have for the first time combined remote sensing observations of localized ultraviolet aurora with in situ…
NASA’s MAVEN mission reveals that solar wind appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm…
At 2 p.m. EST on November 5, NASA will provide details of key science findings from the agency’s ongoing exploration of Mars. The event will…
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review. It is the first vehicle designed to meet the…
New research from MIT shows that stopping at the moon may be the best option for a piloted mission to Mars, revealing that fueling up…
Newly published research from Caltech describes ancient water flows and lakes on Mars, and what this might mean about the ancient climate. We have heard…
NASA has released a detailed outline of the journey to Mars, “NASA’s Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration.” “NASA is closer to…