Category Archives: Mars

Mars Mount Sharp

Mars Curiosity rover has reached the Red Planet’s Mount Sharp

(NASA) – Mars Curiosity rover has reached the Red Planet’s Mount Sharp, a Mount-Rainier-size mountain at the center of the vast Gale Crater and the rover mission’s long-term prime destination….

MAVEN to enter Mars Orbit September 21st

Mars had water, an atmosphere, and at was time was very Earth like…what happened? Where did the water go? These are the questions Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) is trying…

Mars Bonanza King

Mars Rock Moves During Drilling, Team Elects to Stop Drilling.

(NASA/JPL) – Evaluation of a pale, flat Martian rock as the potential next drilling target for NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover determined that the rock was not stable enough for safe…

Mars Rover Tracks

Mars Curosity Rover Two Years on Mars and going Strong

  (NASA) – The most advanced roving laboratory on Mars celebrates its second anniversary since landing inside the Red Planet’s Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT)….

Mars sparks

First Imaging of Laser-Induced Spark on Mars

(NASA) -Curiosity Mars rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on its arm to catch the first images of sparks produced by the rover’s laser being shot at…

Mars MRO Channel

MRO sees new gullies and channels form on Mars

(NASA) – Repeated high-resolution observations made by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) indicate the gullies on Mars’ surface are primarily formed by the seasonal freezing of carbon dioxide, not liquid…

rover one year path

NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year

(NASA) – Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year — 687 Earth days — on June 24, having accomplished the mission’s main goal of determining whether Mars once offered…

Rover self-portrait

Mars Curiosity Rover takes Self Portrait

On Sol 32 (Sept. 7, 2012) the Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) located on its arm to obtain this self-portrait. The image shows the top of…