News Archive / Tagged: Mars

• Curiosity rover team maps route up Mount Sharp

  Jim SharkeyMay 18th, 2019

  Since landing on the Red Planet in August 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has been collecting data about the geology and chemistry of the Martian surface.

• Mars 2020 rover closer to mobility

  Lloyd CampbellMay 17th, 2019

  NASA's Mars 2020 rover is continuing to take shape. Engineers recently installed a controller assembly to be used to properly move and steer spacecraft.

• InSight dust cleanings could provide new science

  Jim SharkeyMay 16th, 2019

  Martian weather events like global dust storms can end missions operating on the Red Planet, but they can also be beneficial.

• NASA’s InSight lander views Martian sunrise, sunset

  Jim SharkeyMay 6th, 2019

  The InSight Mars lander recently trained one of its cameras on the Martian horizon, capturing a series of sunrise and sunset images.

• Marsquake detected by InSight lander’s seismometer

  Laurel KornfeldApril 24th, 2019

  A small tremor in the Martian interior was detected by a highly-sensitive seismometer placed on the Red Planet by NASA's InSight lander.

• Curiosity update: Methane spike confirmed and Martian eclipses observed

  Jim SharkeyApril 7th, 2019

  A methane spike detected by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover in 2013 has been confirmed by researchers reanalyzing data captured by the Mars Express orbiter.

• NASA’s Mars Helicopter completes flight testing

  Jim SharkeyMarch 31st, 2019

  While multiple space agencies have landed spacecraft on other celestial bodies, none have flown in the skies above those worlds—but that may soon change.

• Mars 2020 Rover tests proceeding

  Lloyd CampbellMarch 29th, 2019

  Testing of the Mars 2020 Rover's systems and software is already taking place in preparation for a launch to the Red Planet in the summer of 2020.

• 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.