Launched from space launch complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-541 heavy lift rocket, the NASA Curiosity rover is now safely motoring across Mars within a very large crater named Gale that is 96 miles in diameter. The Curiosity rover touched ...
NASA's huge Curiosity rover is hurtling toward a planned late-night landing on Mars on Aug. 5 PDT (early Aug. 6 EDT), and the anticipation on the science team is high. The reasons are clear: At 1 ton, Curiosity is the largest rover ever aimed at Mars. It will land in a completely...
‘NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of Earth setting while Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, is rising. It’s the first time an image of the two celestial bodies have been captured together from the surface ...
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has entered a new realm on the Red Planet. The 1-ton Curiosity rover has now cruised out of its landing ellipse, the area — about 4 miles wide by 12 miles long (7 by 20 kilometers) — regarded as safe ground for its August 2012 touchdown within Mars' ...
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured "sun rays" on Mars for the first time, the agency says. The footage was taken on Feb. 6, NASA said, and showed the phenomenon as the sun set on the planet. This is the first time, NASA said, that the sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays...
LOS ANGELES, May 30 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Curiosity rover has found the highest amounts of clay minerals since its landing on Mars in August of 2012, according to a release of NASA on Wednesday. Two samples the rover recently drilled at rock targets called "Aberlady" and "Kilmarie" have...
NASA’s 1 ton Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover is now closer than ever to the mineral signatures that were the key reason why Mount Sharp was chosen as the robots landing site years ago by the scientists leading the unprecedented mission. ...
Rather than classic calendars, Mars missions utilize their own simplified time-reckoning system. This shot was taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover in November 2012. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems Martian Calendars Exist... So much for the mathematical background. The actualimplementation...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of this scene at two times of day. This was the view at 8:30 a.m. local Mars time. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech At the center of the image is the view back down Mount Sharp, the 3-mile-tall...
Both panoramas showcase "Glen Torridon," a region on the side of Mount Sharp that Curiosity is exploring. It required more than 6.5 hours over the four days for Curiosity to capture the individual shots. Mastcam operators programmed the complex task list, which included pointing the rover's ...