NASA rover reaches rim of big Martian crater
Mars Thursday, August 11th, 2011
NASA’s surviving Mars rover Opportunity has reached the rim of a 14-mile-wide crater where the robot geologist will examine rocks older than any it has seen
NASA: Is life-giving water flowing on Mars?
Mars, Mars Photos, Photos Thursday, August 4th, 2011
New images from an orbiting probe appear to show seasonal water flow on the surface of Mars, among the strongest evidence yet of a possible habitat for Martian life
Could new rover find fossils on Mars?
Mars Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Scientists are taking a slower, more methodical approach to make sure they understand the environments and chemistry that could support and preserve life
Mars rover to land inside huge crater
Mars, Mars Photos Sunday, July 24th, 2011
NASA’s next Mars rover will land at the foot of a towering mountain inside a 96-mile-wide crater to search for evidence the region once once supported life
Next Mars rover faces race against time, funding
Mars Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
NASA’s next Mars rover faces looming technical, financial and scheduling challenges before its planned launch in November, according to an internal audit
NASA selects investigations for future key planetary mission
Mars Friday, May 6th, 2011
NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars’ interior for the first time
Northern Mars landscape actively changing
Mars Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Sand dunes in a vast area of northern Mars long thought to be frozen in time are changing with both sudden and gradual motions
Virtual Mars mission approaching ‘landing’
Mars Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
The first full-duration simulation of a manned voyage to Mars has reached virtual Mars after 244 days of virtual interplanetary flight, Russian officials said
Earth looked at for clues into history of Mars
Mars Sunday, December 12th, 2010
There is no place on Earth that is a perfect copycat of Mars as it is now, or as it was at any specific point in the past. But scientists suggest Earth has little versions of Mars as it might have been over decades. These places could help scientists develop a timeline of the Red [...]
NASA exhibits scale model of Mars rover
Mars Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
NASA and its Jet Propulsion Labs recently opened an exhibit featuring a scale model of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity