The Curiosity rover, a car-sized NASA robot looking to find evidence of past habitability on the Red Planet, recently snapped an image of Mars' misshapen moon, Phobos, and Earth next to each other. "It's the first time an image of the two celestial bodies have been captured together from...
NASA rover finds clear evidence of ancient waves, yes waves, on Mars What Mars would look like from an orbiting space station The rotating wind accelerates similar to the way spinning ice skaters move faster as they bring their arms closer to their bodies. ...
Curiosity Spots Clouds Over Mont Mercou:NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. The image is made up of 21 individual images stitched together and color-corrected so that the scene ...
Here is another strange, anomalous objectphotographed on the surface of Marsby the Curiosity rover. The picture was taken on Earth date January 30, 2013, and presents a real mystery. The shiny protuberance is small—about .05 cm tall or smaller—and appears to be embedded in the rock from ...
While the rovers aren't exactly punching a clock every morning, they do send images, along with instrument and status data, back to their Earth bosses. Extrapolating from the data, the scientists send commands to the rover during the three-hour window of direct communication with the high-gain...
Mars Exoarchaeology Images There are many strange and mysterious objects and formations on the surface of the Planet Mars.Most of these will be geological in origin, but some may not be. The fact is, that if justONEof these often geometrical and mechanical-looking anomalies on Mars can ...
Related:Mars Rover Shares Photo Of Strange, Yellow Surface On The Planet This deep fascination with Mars has resulted in an abundance of research on the planet — such as sending rovers to explore its alien surface. One such rover is Curiosity. Curiosity has been traversing Mars since 2012 and...
A strange cloud on Mars seen by NASA's Curiosity rover just after it landed on the Martian surface this week set the Internet buzzing over what it might be. Was it a dust storm? Part of the rover? Something a bit more … alien-y? Well, NASA has solved the mystery. The weird blob...
There’s a reason Jezero Crater was chosen as the landing site for the Perseverance Rover: it is considered one of the likeliest places to find any evidence if Mars was ever habitable for long periods of time. In this great new flyby video from ESA, you can get a birds-eye look at ...
Photos of several partial solar eclipses on Mars snapped recently by NASA's Curiosity rover may help scientists better understand the Red Planet's interior structure and composition.