News Archive / Tagged: Mars

• Opportunity rover captured beautiful panoramic images before being felled by dust storm

  Laurel KornfeldMarch 14th, 2019

  Before a planet-wide dust storm silenced it forever, NASA's Opportunity Mars rover captured panoramic images from its location in Endeavour Crater.

• Rock and a hard place: InSight experiment encounters setback

  Jim SharkeyMarch 7th, 2019

  Even successful robotic missions can encounter obstacles. This appears to be the case with NASA's Mars InSight lander and its self-hammering "mole."

• Curiosity rover functional again after system restart

  Lloyd CampbellFebruary 28th, 2019

  NASA’s Curiosity rover suffered an anomaly doing a boot-up sequence Feb. 15 causing it to enter safe mode. It was brought out of safe mode four days later.

• NASA’s InSight lander places heat probe on Martian surface

  Jim SharkeyFebruary 24th, 2019

  Having placed a heat probe on the surface, NASA's InSight Mars lander is one step closer to taking the temperature of the Red Planet's interior.

• MAVEN spacecraft to be moved to a lower Mars orbit

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 14th, 2019

  NASA's MAVEN orbiter is being prepared to act as a communications relay with the Mars 2020 rover, which is set to launch in 2020 and land in February 2021.

• ESA’s ExoMars rover named after Rosalind Franklin

  Jim SharkeyFebruary 12th, 2019

  The European Space Agency announced that its ExoMars rover will be named Rosalind Franklin. It and a Russian lander are scheduled for a July 2020 launch.

• Dome-shaped shield provides protection to InSight seismometer

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 6th, 2019

  The seismometer on NASA's Mars InSight mission was provided with a dome-shaped shield for protection from the planet's extreme temperature variations.

• Curiosity measures gravity of Mount Sharp

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 3rd, 2019

  NASA's Curiosity rove has measured the gravity on Mount Sharp in much the same way Apollo 17 astronauts measured the Moon's gravity in 1972.

• NASA trying to reestablish contact with Opportunity rover

  Jason RhianJanuary 29th, 2019

  Engineers are sending new commands to Mars rover Opportunity, addressing "low-likelihood" scenarios that could be preventing the vehicle from communicating.

• InSight lander deploys seismometer on Mars

  Paul KnightlyJanuary 15th, 2019

  NASA's InSight Mars lander has been busy getting its suite of instruments prepared for regular use to explore the interior of the Red Planet.

• Robotic spacecraft spent 2018 exploring the solar system and cosmos

  Laurel KornfeldDecember 31st, 2018

  Robotic spacecraft launched by the world's space agencies spent 2018 studying the Sun, planets and asteroids as well as the cosmos beyond the Solar System.

• NASA’s InSight lander flexes arm, ‘listens’ to Martian winds

  Jim SharkeyDecember 12th, 2018

  NASA's Mars InSight lander has been getting to known for its new home at Elysium Planitia and preparing for what it will be doing there. As it turns out, one of those things - is listening.

• MarCO CubeSats perform successfully during InSight landing

  Laurel KornfeldNovember 28th, 2018

  Two CubeSats successfully monitored InSight's entry, descent, and landing on Mars and returned data to Earth hours before NASA's Mars orbiters came into position to transmit the data.

• NASA chooses Jezero Crater as landing site for Mars 2020 rover

  Jim SharkeyNovember 21st, 2018

  Selecting a landing site is a crucial step in Mars mission planning as the scientific value of an area must be weighed against any potential hazards.

• Final ASPIRE test certifies Mars 2020 parachute

  Heather SmithNovember 6th, 2018

  NASA's Mars 2020 rover is one step closer to exploring the dusty plains of the Red Planet. A recent test has not only demonstrated the viability of a key system - it has also made history.