NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Sees ‘Evening Star’ Earth
New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover show Earth shining brighter than any star in the Martian night sky. The rover’s view of its original home planet even includes our […]
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Curiosity Mars Rover Checking Possible Smoother Route
The team operating NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is considering a path across a small sand dune to reach a favorable route to science destinations. A favorable route would skirt some […]
Mars Orbiter Images Rover and Tracks in Gale Crater
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover and its recent tracks from driving in Gale Crater appear in an image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars […]
NASA Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help
NASA’s Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars’ past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions. In a little more than a year […]
Mars Science Laboratory Release 4
The NASA Planetary Data System announces the fourth release of data from the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, covering data acquired from Sol 270 through Sol 359 (May 9, 2013, to Aug […]
Laser Instrument on NASA Mars Rover Tops 100,000 Zaps
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has passed the milestone of 100,000 shots fired by its laser. It uses the laser as one way to check which chemical elements are in rocks […]
Rover Team Working to Diagnose Electrical Issue
Science observations by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity have been suspended for a few days while engineers run tests to check possible causes of a voltage change detected on Nov. 17. […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Approaches ‘Cooperstown’
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity completed its first two-day autonomous drive Monday, bringing the mobile laboratory to a good vantage point for pictures useful in selecting the next target the rover […]
NASA Rover Confirms Mars Origin of Some Meteorites
Examination of the Martian atmosphere by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover confirms that some meteorites that have dropped to Earth really are from the Red Planet. A key new measurement of […]
NASA Rover Inspects Pebbly Rocks at Martian Waypoint
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has resumed a trek of many months toward its mountain-slope destination, Mount Sharp. The rover used instruments on its arm last week to inspect rocks at […]
Long Drive Puts NASA Mars Rover Near Planned Waypoint
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity now has a view of a patch of exposed bedrock scientists selected for a few days of close-up study, the first such study since the rover […]
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Debuts Autonomous Navigation
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has used autonomous navigation for the first time, a capability that lets the rover decide for itself how to drive safely on Mars. This latest addition […]
NASA Mars Rover Views Eclipse of the Sun by Phobos
Images taken with a telephoto-lens camera on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity catch the larger of Mars’ two moons, Phobos, passing directly in front of the sun — the sharpest images […]
Mars Curiosity Landing: Relive the Excitement
Where were you when Curiosity landed? It’s a hot topic of discussion in the hallways of JPL and on social media this week, as people remember the dramatic, tension-filled landing […]
NASA Invites Reporters and Public to Curiosity First Anniversary Event
NASA officials and crew members aboard the International Space Station will observe the first anniversary of the Curiosity rover’s landing on Mars at a public event in Washington from noon-1:30 […]