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New Online Exploring Tools Bring NASA’s Journey to Mars to New Generation

06/08/2015admin

On the three-year anniversary of the Mars landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover, NASA is unveiling two new online tools that open the mysterious terrain of the Red Planet to a new generation of explorers, inviting the public to help with its journey to Mars. A screen capture from NASA’s new Experience Curiosity website shows the […]

Three Years on Mars – Curiosity Rover Report

05/08/2015admin

Hi I’m Ashwin Vasavada, project scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory mission and this is your special edition, 3rd Anniversary Curiosity Rover Report. It’s a summer of milestones for Mars Exploration. Fifty years ago, Mariner 4 became the first spacecraft to take close-up pictures of Mars. Thirty-nine years ago, the Viking 1 Lander became the […]

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock

26/07/2015admin

Approaching the third anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before — bedrock with surprisingly high levels of silica. Silica is a rock-forming compound containing silicon and oxygen, commonly found on Earth as quartz. A rock outcrop dubbed “Missoula,” near Marias Pass on […]

Scars on Mars from 2012 Rover Landing Fade

29/03/201508/05/2015admin

This sequence of images shows a blast zone where the sky crane from NASA’s Curiosity rover mission hit the ground after setting the rover down in August 2012, and how that dark scar’s appearance changed over the subsequent 30 months. A series of observations from Mars orbit show how dark blast zones that were created […]