The article discusses the historic landing of U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) rover, Curiosity, to Mars. It notes that the controllers of the mission were happy after receiving sig...
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 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...
NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, recently captured a stunning photo of the Martian skies and landscape that offers researchers a glimpse at what the red planet looks like at different times of day. The rover, which has been on Mars since August 2012, captured the images with black-and-white n...
and sand called "Rocknest." It is a flat stretch ofMarsterrain that is still miles away from Curiosity's first destination, rock outcrop called Glenelg at the base of the 3-mile (5 kilometers) Mount Sharp that rises from the center of the rover's landing site — the vast Gale Crater...
Curiosity has been exploring the region since its landing in 2012 and remains in good health. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: community@space.com. Robert Lea ...
Seven years ago, on August 5, 2012, NASA's car-sized, nuclear-powered robot rover, the Mars Science Laboratory, better known as Curiosity, touched down on the Red Planet. To mark this 'landingversary', scientists with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory hi...
3)“We are exploring two new landing options,” said Dr. Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “One is to leverage technology that was previously used to land both (the) Perseverance and Curiosity (rovers) on Mars. The other is to leverage options from...
I feel so proud that I 16 the Rover," Ma says. After Ma was selected 17 in 2009,she was invited to go to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California to see 18 "Curiosity" was built. On August 6,2012, she was a special guest at the JPL for the 19 landing. She...
NASA’s newest rover has made it to the surface of Mars. After a journey of nearly seven months, the Perseverance rover landed on the Red Planet on 18 February. The success of the landing was by no means a foregone conclusion – of all the missions to Mars’s surface, only...