From its view inside Endeavour, the roverlogged images of the comet Siding Springwhen the icy object sped by Mars at a distance of 87,000 miles (139,500 km) in October 2014. In January 2015, Opportunitytook pictures from a high point on the rim of Endeavour,about 440 feet (134 m) ab...
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity rover, is scheduled to land on the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012. Here's how the rover will touch down on the planet's surface.
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover uses an XRD instrument called CheMin to identify clay minerals on the surface at the landing site inside Gale Crater (Blake et al., 2013) and several martian surface missions have measured surface chemistry and this data was then used to infer mineralogy...
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This image is one of the very first sent home from Curiosity, showing the rover's own shadow on the Martian surface. NASA says that the clear dust cover is still on the camera, hence the dust seen around the edge of the fish-eye image. The photo was taken by one of the rover's ...
Mars Curiosity rover captured recently captured some images UFO enthusiasts are convinced show proof of extraterrestrial life on the Red planet.
Two landmark discoveries reveal organic carbon on the red planet, shaping the future hunt for life on Mars.
March 24, 2015, NASA announced that the rover Opportunity had completed a 26-mile trek, the equivalent of a Martian marathon. It took just over 11 years.Wide repertoire NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State University/Reuters Opportunity rover's robotic arm is like a Swiss army knife...
A Mars rover has watched some spectacular sunsets recently, with sightings of iridescent, featherlike clouds and sun rays poking through the blanketed sky. TheNASAexplorer isn't taking pictures for the 'Gram to give all its rover pals FOMO, but tostudy clouds at twilight, building on research...
A composite image of Mount Sharp in Gale Crater, created by NASA’s Curiosity Rover in 2015. The rover is currently atop a region called Greenheugh Pediment on the mountain, which is where it snapped the image of the “doorway on Mars” that has excited people’s imaginations. Credit: NAS...