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New Curiosity 'Safe Mode' Status Expected to Be Brief
March 18, 2013 NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is expected to resume science investigations in a few days, as engineers quickly diagnosed a software issue that prompted the rover to put itself into a precautionary ... > full story -
Curiosity Mars Rover Sees Trend in Water Presence
March 18, 2013 NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has seen evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled ... > full story -
Panorama from NASA Mars Rover Shows Mount Sharp
March 18, 2013 Rising above the present location of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the United States, Mount Sharp is featured in new imagery from the ... > full story -
Particles and Fields Package Integrated on Upcoming Mars-Bound Spacecraft
March 14, 2013 The six science instruments that comprise the Particles and Fields Package that will characterize the solar wind and ionosphere of Mars have been integrated aboard NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile ... > full story -
NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars
March 12, 2013 An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and ... > full story -
Strategies for Possible Survival on Mars: Scientists Found Differences in Core Proteins from a Microorganism That Lives in a Salty Lake in Antarctica
March 11, 2013 Research has revealed key features in proteins needed for life to function on Mars and other extreme environments. Scientists studied organisms that survive in the extreme conditions of Antarctica. ... > full story -
New 3-D Reconstructions Show Buried Flood Channels on Mars
March 7, 2013 New maps of the subsurface of Mars show for the first time buried channels below the surface of the red planet. Understanding the source and scale of the young channels present in Elysium Planitia -- ... > full story -
Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014
March 6, 2013 Comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a very close approach to Mars in October ... > full story -
Mars Rover Curiosity's Recovery on Track
March 5, 2013 NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary "safe mode" to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week. Resumption of full operations is anticipated by ... > full story -
Computer Swap on NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity
February 28, 2013 The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been ... > full story
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