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Craters Young and Old in Southern Highlands of Mars
The Mars Express High
Resolution Stereo Camera has
imaged craters both young
and old in a new view of the
southern highlands of Mars. ... > full story
NASA's Mars Rover Spirit Starts a New Chapter
After six years of
unprecedented exploration of
the Red Planet, NASA's Mars
Exploration Rover Spirit no
longer will be a fully
mobile robot. NASA has
... > full story
Auspicious Orbit Marks Run-Up to Phobos Flyby
On 26 January, Mars Express
completed its 7777th orbit
around the Red Planet, an
auspicious milestone as the
satellite is readied for the
closest-ever flyby of
Phobos, scheduled for just a
... > full story
Rover Gives NASA an 'Opportunity' to View Interior of Mars
NASA's Mars exploration
rover Opportunity is
allowing scientists to get a
glimpse deep inside Mars.
Perched on a rippled Martian
plain, a dark rock not much
... > full story
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Resumed Mars Orbiter Observations Yield Stunning Views
January 21, 2010 — Dunes of sand-sized materials have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters. A new view captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows dunes inside a crater in Noachis Terra, west of ... > full story -
Tooling Up ExoMars
January 18, 2010 — ESA and NASA are inviting scientists from across the world to propose instruments for their joint Mars mission, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Scheduled for launch in 2016, the spacecraft will focus ... > full story -
NASA to Check for Unlikely Winter Survival of Mars Lander
January 13, 2010 — Beginning Jan. 18, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic Martian ... > full story -
Scientist's Breakthrough Given Ticket to Mars
January 6, 2010 — The quest to discover whether Mars ever hosted an environment friendly to microscopic forms of life has just gotten a shot in the arm. An experiment -- added to the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) ... > full story -
Spectacular Mars Images Reveal Evidence of Ancient Lakes
January 4, 2010 — Spectacular satellite images suggest that Mars was warm enough to sustain lakes three billion years ago, a period that was previously thought to be too cold and arid to sustain water on the surface, ... > full story -
NASA's Mars Rover Spirit Has Uncertain Future as Sixth Anniversary Nears
January 2, 2010 — NASA's Mars rover Spirit will mark six years of unprecedented science exploration and inspiration for the American public on Jan. 3, 2010. However, the upcoming Martian winter could end the roving ... > full story -
How Much Ice Needed to Create Martian Land Formations?
December 31, 2009 — Some land formations on Mars suggest the presence of water ice. These features could have been created by viscous creep of ice below the surface in Martian permafrost. To determine how much ice would ... > full story -
Trough Deposits on Mars Point to Complex Hydrologic Past
December 17, 2009 — Variations in composition of light-toned deposits in troughs on Mars suggest a diversity of water-related processes, based on analysis of observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance ... > full story -
Life on Mars Theory Boosted by New Methane Study
December 8, 2009 — Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in new ... > full story -
Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images from Mars
November 26, 2009 — Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard NASA's ... > full story
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