Curiosity Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock
If all goes as planned, NASA’s Curiosity rover may drill its first rock sample in the coming days, providing scientists with important details about the…
If all goes as planned, NASA’s Curiosity rover may drill its first rock sample in the coming days, providing scientists with important details about 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 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’s Opportunity rover discovered puzzling spherical objects on Mars at a rock outcrop called Kirkwood. The spherules vary in composition, concentration, distribution, and structure from…
Using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have detected carbon-dioxide snow clouds on Mars and evidence of carbon-dioxide snow falling to the surface. NASA’s…
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…
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…