Digging into our new drill hole: Sols 3517-3518
After a successful drilling of Avanavero, the team is ready to dig even deeper into our investigation of this new ...
Tag: Red Planet
Help NASA scientists find clouds on Mars
NASA scientists hope to solve a fundamental mystery about Mars' atmosphere, and you can help. They've organized a project called ...
NASA Experiment Suggests Need to Dig Deep for Evidence of Life on Mars
According to a new NASA laboratory experiment, rovers may have to dig about 6.6 feet (two meters) or more under ...
NASA's Curiosity takes inventory of key life ingredient on Mars
Scientists using data from NASA's Curiosity rover measured the total organic carbon - a key component in the molecules of ...
Curiosity latest drilling attempt a success – Sols 3514-3516
The MSL team is very happy this week, because our first drill attempt since last November was successful! This Front ...
Drilling Again – Sols 3512-3513
Today was an exciting day of planning (and not just because of the thunderstorms here in southern California!). We planned ...
NASA Mars Orbiter Releasing One of Its Last Rainbow-Colored Maps
Scientists are about to get a new look at Mars, thanks to a multicolored 5.6-gigapixel map. Covering 86% of the ...
On the Cusp of Drilling: Sol 3511
It has been almost 8 months to the day since Curiosity powered up its drill and extracted tailings from a ...
NASA's Curiosity Captures Stunning Views of a Changing Mars Landscape
Striking rock formations documented by the rover provide evidence of a drying climate in the Red Planet's ancient past. For ...
A Long History of Flowing Water Recorded in Clay-Bearing Sediments on Mars
A region on Mars may have been repeatedly habitable until relatively late in Martian history, says a new paper by ...