<p><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia19155" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"></a></p> <p>There was no tape draped across a finish line, but NASA is celebrating a win. The agency’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity completed its first Red Planet marathon
<p><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia19151" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>After avoiding use of the rover’s flash memory for three months, the team operating NASA’s 11-year-old Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reformatted the vehicle’s flash memory banks and
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving. The previous
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>Researchers have determined the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of
<p>NASA held a media teleconference on Friday, June 7, to provide an update about the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The 10th anniversary of this rover’s launch is next month.</p> <p>The
<p style="text-align:center"><br /> <em>The pale rock in the upper center of this image, about the size of a human forearm, includes a target called “Esperance,” which was inspected by NASA’s Mars
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Over the years, the spacefaring nations of Earth have sent dozens of probes and rovers to explore Mars. Today there are three active satellites circling the red planet
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>NASA-funded researchers analyzing a small meteorite that may be the first discovered from the Martian surface or crust have found it contains 10 times more water than other Martian
<p>Remarkable image sets from NASA’s Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are continuing to develop the story of Curiosity’s landing and first days on Mars.</p> <p style="text-align:center" class="small"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674851main_pia16011-full_full.jpg" target="_blank"></a><br /> <strong>Curiosity
<p>Late Monday night, an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover and the components that helped it survive