NASA’s long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers.
Spherical objects concentrated at an outcrop Opportunity reached last week differ in several ways from iron-rich spherules nicknamed “blueberries” the rover found at its landing site in early 2004 and at many other locations to date.
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Small spherical objects fill the field in this …
The mission team for NASA’s long-lived Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity will be awarded the Haley Space Flight Award. The team will receive the award Sept. 12 during the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space 2012 Conference and Exposition in Pasadena, Calif.
The award is presented for outstanding contributions by an astronaut or flight test personnel to … Read the rest of this article
After driving more than a football field’s length since landing, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is spending several days preparing for full use of the tools on its arm.
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The left eye of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity took this image of the camera on the rover’s arm, the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), during the 30th …
Recently engaged in providing support to the successful landing of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover, ESA’s Mars Express has now returned to its primary mission of studying the diverse geology and atmosphere of the ‘Red Planet’ from orbit.
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High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) nadir and colour channel data taken during revolution 10572 on 9 April 2012 by ESA’s Mars Express …
NASA hosted a media teleconference to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover’s mission to Mars’ Gale Crater.
Topics include:
– CAP 2 (“Commissioning Activity Phase 2”)
– Robotic arm calibration
– MAHLI instrument
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– Michael Watkins, JPL, Curiosity mission manager
– Matt Robinson, JPL, lead engineer for Curiosity’s robotic arm testing and operations
– Joy Crisp, JPL, …
NASA’s Mars Curiosity has debuted the first recorded human voice that traveled from Earth to another planet and back.
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Layers at the Base of Mount Sharp: A chapter of the layered geological history of Mars is laid bare in this postcard from NASA’s Curiosity rover. The image shows the base of Mount Sharp, the rover’s eventual science destination. This image …
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun driving from its landing site, which scientists announced today they have named for the late author Ray Bradbury1.
Making its first movement on the Martian surface, Curiosity’s drive combined forward, turn and reverse segments. This placed the rover roughly 20 feet (6 meters) from the spot where it landed 16 days ago. … Read the rest of this article
Some 135 years after its discovery, Mars’ largest moon Phobos is seen in fantastic detail – and in 3D – in an image taken by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft as it passed just 100 km by.
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Mars Express HRSC (High Resolution Stereo Camera) image of Phobos taken on 9 January 2011 at a distance of 100 km with a resolution …
On August 19th, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called “Coronation.”
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This composite image, with magnified insets, depicts the first laser test by the Chemistry and Camera, or ChemCam, instrument aboard NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. The composite incorporates a Navigation Camera …
A new NASA video shows the cloud of dust that rose from the surface of the Red Planet after the Curiosity rover’s heat shield hit the Martian terrain during the spacecraft’s descent on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). The video was made using a sequence of 25 images taken by the Mars Descent Imager on Curiosity while the rover … Read the rest of this article
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