Two landmark discoveries reveal organic carbon on the red planet, shaping the future hunt for life on 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...
The search for life on Mars requires complex chemical analysis, which the Curiosity rover has tested for the first time. It didn't find anything, but the technique could be used on other worlds
"Mars' shadows get sharper and deeper when there's low dust and softer when there's lots of dust," Ellison said. The Curiosity rover, which is the size of an SUV, is working to search for conditions, past or present, favorable for life on the planet. The rover was built by NASA's...
Mars Exploration Rovers, which have been exploring the surface of Mars since 2004; Curiosity, which is a car-sized rover that has been studying the geology and habitability of Mars since 2012; Juno, which is orbiting Jupiter and studying its structure and magnetosphere since 2016; Parker Solar ...
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover isn’t done blasting the Red Planet with a rock-vaporizing laser. In fact, its work has barely begun. On Saturday, October 20…
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 ...
LOS ANGELES, June 24 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Curiosity rover has detected the largest amount of methane ever measured during its mission on Mars, according to a release of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Monday. The finding from the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) tunable las...
News By Meghan Bartels published August 7, 2019 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's been seven years since NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on Mars, but the robot geologist is still tackling big questions about ...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this shot of the 2-inch-deep (5 centimeters) hole it drilled in a target called "Duluth" on May 20, 2018. It was the first rock sample captured by the drill since October 2016. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) It looks like Curiosity's ...