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Mission Success for MSL Entry, Descent, & Landing Instrument (MEDLI)
August 8, 2012 Mission success for the MSL Entry, Descent, & Landing Instrument (MEDLI) Suite. When the Curiosity rover touched down on the red planet Aug. 6 at 12:32 p.m. CDT, NASA MEDLI researchers were ... > full story -
Orbiter Images NASA's Latest Additions to Martian Landscape
August 7, 2012 Late Monday night, an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover and the components that helped ... > full story -
New Mars Rover Beams Back Images Showing Its Descent
August 7, 2012 Just hours after NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars, a select group of images taken by the onboard Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, were beamed back to Earth. The 297 color, low-resolution images, ... > full story -
USGS Science Goes to Mars
August 6, 2012 With the Mars rover Curiosity's successful landing Sunday, Aug. 5, at 10:32 p.m. PDT, U.S. Geological Survey scientists continue their strategic role in the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), the most ... > full story -
NASA's Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing
August 6, 2012 An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot-wide (almost 16 ... > full story -
NASA's New Mars Rover Sends Higher-Resolution Image
August 6, 2012 About two hours after landing on Mars and beaming back its first image, NASA's Curiosity rover transmitted a higher-resolution image of its new Martian home, Gale Crater. Mission Control at NASA's ... > full story -
Car-Size Rover Curiosity Lands on Mars: Two-Year Mission to Investigate Red Planet Begins
August 6, 2012 NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars at 1:31 a.m. EDT Monday (Aug. 6, 2012) to ... > full story -
Curiosity Rover Just Hours from Mars Landing
August 5, 2012 NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is healthy and right on course for a landing in several hours that will be one of the most difficult feats of robotic exploration ever ... > full story -
Mars Tugging on Approaching NASA Rover Curiosity
August 4, 2012 The gravitational tug of Mars is now pulling NASA's car-size geochemistry laboratory, Curiosity, in for a suspenseful landing in less than 40 ... > full story -
Hitchhiking Sensors Capture Curiosity's Entry
August 3, 2012 Screaming through the thin Martian atmosphere at hypersonic speed, the Mars Science Laboratory is about to experience heat and pressure up to three times more intense than when a space shuttle ... > full story
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