Video: NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Has Run a Marathon on Mars
Opportunity in Shadows NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity catches its own late-afternoon shadow in this dramatically lit view eastward across Endeavour Crater on Mars. NASA/JPL/Cornell All eyes will be on...
View ArticleToday On Mars: Opportunity Discovers Mysterious Martian Spheres
Martian Mystery Spheres NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./ USGS/Modesto Junior College More than eight years into its mission, Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is still sending back data and images...
View ArticleMysterious Martian Spheres Might Be The Weird Work Of Water
Martian Spherules Small spherical objects fill the field in this mosaic combining four images from the Microscopic Imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The view covers an area about...
View ArticleThe Year On Mars: The Red Planet's Greatest Moments Of 2012
A Rover In Full NASA/JPL-Caltech View Photo GalleryClick to launch the photo galleryWe are bidding farewell to an epic year for space explorers, who for the past 12 months have been graced with some...
View ArticleToday On Mars: Opportunity Begins Its 10th Year Of Mars Roving
Opportunity: A Simulated Self-Portrait NASA Today on Mars the robotic rover Opportunity (that's right, Opportunity--remember when we all used to care about Opportunity?) is hitting a major milestone....
View ArticleNew York Fashion Week Lands On Mars
Mars on the Runway Nanette Lepore via Atlantic Much of the clothing in New York's Fashion Week appears to have been designed by people from another planet, but in this case there's actual...
View ArticleNext Month, Mars Solar Conjunction Means Vacation For NASA Teams
Solar Conjunction, April 2013 This diagram illustrates the positions of Mars, Earth and the sun during a period that occurs approximately every 26 months, when Mars passes almost directly behind the...
View ArticleVideo: NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Has Run a Marathon on Mars
All eyes will be on the new Mars rover Curiosity when it lands in just over two weeks, but lest we forget, NASA’s indefatigable Mars rover Opportunity is still rolling along,…
View ArticleToday On Mars: Opportunity Discovers Mysterious Martian Spheres
More than eight years into its mission, Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is still sending back data and images that consistently fill us with wonder and periodically…
View ArticleMysterious Martian Spheres Might Be The Weird Work Of Water
Strange new spheres on the surface of Mars have planetary geologists buzzing--they might be the result of water, they could be left over from a major crater-causing impact,…
View ArticleThe Year On Mars: The Red Planet's Greatest Moments Of 2012
_ Click to launch the photo gallery_ We are bidding farewell to an epic year for space explorers, who for the past 12 months have been graced with some of the best images…
View ArticleToday On Mars: Opportunity Begins Its 10th Year Of Mars Roving
Today on Mars the robotic rover Opportunity (that's right, Opportunity--remember when we all used to care about Opportunity?) is hitting a major milestone. The rover…
View ArticleNew York Fashion Week Lands On Mars
Much of the clothing in New York's Fashion Week appears to have been designed by people from another planet, but in this case there's actual extraterrestrial inspiration.
View ArticleNext Month, Mars Solar Conjunction Means Vacation For NASA Teams
For the scientists and engineers working on NASA's Mars program, an upcoming alignment of the planets presages some possible good news. Thanks to the sun, it's spring break time. Every 26 months or...
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