Curiosity reaches next area for major investigation on Mars
Looking much like any desert on Earth, complete with mountains in the background, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of various rock types at a waypoint called “the Kimberley”…
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Mars Rover Sees it’s Shadow. Does that mean Winter is over?
Maybe we should add the Mars Rover to the Punxsutawney Phil gopher tradition of seeing his own shadow. NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity caught its own silhouette in this late-afternoon image…
Interesting rows of rocks found on Mars by Curiosity Rover
This landscape scene photographed by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows rows of rocks in the foreground and Mount Sharp on the horizon. Curiosity’s Navigation Camera (Navcam) took the component images…
Mars Jelly Doughnut Rock Mystery Solved
(NASA) – Researchers have determined the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of…
Watch Mars Rover Dune Buggy Over Martian Hill
It may not be a modified VW Bug but there is no other car in the universe equipped to traverse a Martian sand dune like the Mars Curiosity Rover. The…
Mars Curiosity Rover Snaps Picture of Earth and Moon
New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover show Earth shining brighter than any star in the Martian night sky. The rover’s view of its original home planet even includes our moon,…
Mars “Jelly Doughnut” Rock Appears without Explanation
In this side by side image you can easily see the doughnut shaped rock that appeared on Mars.. The pictures were taken 12 days apart of the same area. The…
Ten Years Ago, Spirit Rover Lands on Mars
This mosaic image taken on Jan. 4, 2004, by the navigation camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows a 360 degree panoramic view of the rover on the surface…
