Aug 30
It headed east Tuesday, driving 52 feet toward a spot where it will use its robotic arm for the first time to drill into bedrock. It’ll take weeks for the six-wheel NASA rover to reach the site called Glenelg about a quarter mile away. “It’s nice to see some Martian soil on our wheels,” mission …
Aug 30
NASA’s newest Mars rover Curiosity is making tracks on the Red Planet that call to mind the groundbreaking footprints left on the moon by Neil Armstrong more than 40 years ago, a rover scientist said today (Aug. 27). Neil Armstong, who became the first person to walk on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969, …
Aug 22
This still from a set of images shows the movement of the front left wheel of NASA’s Curiosity as rover drivers turned the wheels in place at the landing site on Mars. Engineers wiggled the wheels as a test of the rover’s steering and anticipat
Aug 22
The NASA rover Curiosity has taken its first test drive on Mars. This Aug. 18, 2012 image provided by NASA shows the Curiosity rover’s landing site and Mount Sharp in the distance. The six-wheel rover prepared to take its first test drive on Wednesday Aug. 22,2012 as a warm-up for the long trek to the …
Aug 14
Click the links below for the latest about the Mars Curiosity News Conference today August 14, 2012 at 1 pm est. http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html
Aug 14
NASA’s newly landed Curiosity rover is busy taking pictures, roving, and just being awesome on another planet. A few of Curiosity’s pictures revealed, for lack of a more appropriate word, some curiosities of their own, including a mysterious shape on the Martian horizon. Just what was it? The tail of a sand worm? A crude …
Aug 14
President Barack Obama says last week’s landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars was a “mind-boggling” accomplishment. And he’s urging NASA scientists to let him know right away if the craft happens to see any Martians. Obama telephoned the Curiosity team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Monday as Air Force One …
Aug 12
Exposed By Rocket Blasts (First Photo) This color image from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows an area excavated by the blast of the Mars Science Laboratory’s descent stage rocket engines. This is part of a larger, high-resolution color mosaic made from images obtained by Curiosity’s Mast Camera. With the loose debris blasted away by the rockets, …
Aug 12
Space enthusiasts have been abuzz for days over whether the Mars rover Curiosity captured an extraterrestrial crash. On Friday, NASA declared the mystery solved. Seconds after the car-size rover parked its six wheels in an ancient crater, a tiny camera under the chassis snapped a picture revealing a smudge on the horizon. The feature disappeared …
Aug 10
With NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity safely on the Red Planet, mission controllers are now preparing the robotic explorer to begin its mission on the Martian surface. Engineers have been testing the Curiosity rover’s instruments and systems ever since the spacecraft touched down on Mars on Sunday (Aug. 5 PDT; Aug. 6 EDT). So far, Curiosity …