Plate Tectonics Discovered on Mars
While analyzing roughly 100 satellite images from NASA’s THEMIS spacecraft and the HIRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, UCLA scientist An Yin discovered that…
While analyzing roughly 100 satellite images from NASA’s THEMIS spacecraft and the HIRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, UCLA scientist An Yin discovered that…
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…
New images from the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA’s Mars Express reveal a variety of features of several impact craters and their surrounding areas on…
As the world readies for Curiosity’s “Seven Minutes of Terror” landing on Mars, William Shatner walks us through the process and details in this 4…
While examining detailed images of Martian impact craters from the HiRISE camera, Western University scientists discovered further evidence for the interaction between subsurface volatiles and…
With the hope of bringing explorers to nearby asteroids, Mars, and its moons, and to destinations even farther across our solar system, NASA’s Space Launch…
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…
Mission engineers continue to ready for the August Curiosity landing inside Gale Crater and the critical seven minute period when Curiosity must decelerate from about…
With NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity set to land in early August, NASA is finalizing a game development tool that will offer a 3D interactive experience…
Scientists estimated that several large impact events on Mars could have launched significant amounts of Martian material into space, leading them to believe that if…
This video shares the challenges of Curiosity’s final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars, which is scheduled to occur at approximately 10:31 p.m….
By using data gathered from instruments onboard the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists at MIT have calculated the size of snow particles…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute believe that they now know where the methane on Mars is originating from. In their published work, the scientists…