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NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Installing Smarts for Driving

Aug 13, 2012 (JPL)

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will spend its first weekend on Mars transitioning to software better suited for tasks ahead, such as driving and using its strong r...

UCLA scientist discovers plate tectonics on Mars

Aug 13, 2012 (SPX)

For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geol...

Obama to NASA experts: 'Let me know if you find Martians'

Aug 13, 2012 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama on Monday ribbed scientists behind NASA's roving robot Curiosity, instructing them to let him know right away if they found life on Ma...

Opportunity Will Resume Driving Soon

Aug 13, 2012 (JPL)

With Curiosity on the Surface Opportunity Will Resume Driving Soon - August 02-07, 2012 - sols 3030-3035. Activity has been constrained for the period around th...

Mars rover captures crash landing

Aug 10, 2012 (AFP)

NASA said Friday that a mysterious spot shown on a photograph sent back to Earth by the Mars rover Curiosity was the crash landing of its rocket stage. Scientis...

Orbiter Images NASA's Latest Additions To Martian Landscape

Aug 09, 2012 (JPL)

Late Monday night, an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity...

First 360-Degree Panorama From Nasa'S Curiosity Mars Rover

Aug 09, 2012 (JPL)

Remarkable image sets from NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are continuing to develop the story of Curiosity's landing and first days on M...

Engineering Team Develops Chip for Mars Rover

Aug 09, 2012 (SPX)

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity would have a hard time completing its mission if it were not for a successful partnership between the Jet Propuls...

Curiosity's second day on Mars 'flawless': NASA

Aug 08, 2012 (AFP)

NASA rover Curiosity's second day on Mars went "flawlessly," NASA said Wednesday, confirming the antennas, communication links and generator on the $2.5 billion...

Curiosity ready to rove Mars

Aug 08, 2012 (SPX)

Almost nine months after it was launched, Curiosity, NASA's latest rover, landed safely in the Gale Crater of Mars in the wee hours of August 6 CDT. The last se...

A New Martian Landscape Comes Alive With Curiosity

Aug 08, 2012 (JPL)

This picture of the Martian landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover puts a color view obtained by the rover in the context of a computer simulation derived from ...

Mars Science Lab Presents Mount Sharp

Aug 08, 2012 (JPL)

This image taken by NASA's Curiosity shows what lies ahead for the rover - its main science target, Mount Sharp. The rover's shadow can be seen in the foregroun...

Curiosity Safely on Mars! Health Checks Begin

Aug 07, 2012 (JPL)

With Curiosity now safely on the surface of the Red Planet after last night's spectacular entry, descent and landing in Gale Crater, NASA's Mars Science Laborat...

Mission Success for MSL Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrument (MEDLI)

Aug 07, 2012 (SPX)

Mission success for the MSL Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrument (MEDLI) Suite. When the Curiosity rover touched down on the red planet Aug. 6 at 12:32 p.m. C...

New Mars Rover Beams Back Images Showing its Descent

Aug 07, 2012 (JPL)

A few hours after NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars, a select group of images taken by the onboard Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, were beamed back to Earth....

ESA spacecraft records crucial NASA signals from Mars

Aug 07, 2012 (ESA)

This morning at 7:14 CEST, ESA's Mars Express acquired signals from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory as it delivered the car-sized Curiosity rover onto the Red pl...

NASA shows first 'crime scene' photo of Mars landing

Aug 07, 2012 (AFP)

About 36 hours after NASA landed its $2.5 billion rover on Mars, it released Tuesday what it jokingly dubbed a "crime scene" aerial shot of where the parachute,...

NASA's Mars rover sends back stunning pictures

Aug 06, 2012 (AFP)

After its first day on Mars, NASA's rover Monday sent back to Earth stunning images of its crater landing site and the mountain it aims to climb in the hunt for...

Opportunity Prepares for Curiosity's Arrival

Aug 06, 2012 (JPL)

Opportunity has been roving at the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. However, activity will be constrained for the period ahead as Opportun...

Taking a Robotic Geologist to Mars

Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)

On Aug. 5, at about 10:30 p.m., an already busy summer will kick into overdrive for University of Arizona geosciences professor Bob Downs and one of his graduat...