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Mars Exploration Rover

Finding Life in All the Unlikely, Unexpected Places

September 24, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Just one of several weather stations set up at Chott El Jerid, a Tunisian saltpan, measuring temperature, humidity, ultraviolet radiation, wind direction and velocity. Image credit: Felipe Goméz/Europlanet From orbit and on the ground, Mars looks inhospitable. But it doesn’t look [...]

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3 Generations of NASA’s Mars Rovers

January 22, 2012

NASA Mars rovers have come a long way in terms of size and capability since the rebirth of Red Planet surface exploration just 15 years ago – spanning from 1997 to 2012. To get a really excellent sense of just how far America’s scientists and engineers have pushed the state of the art in such [...]

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Mars Rover Finds a Turkey Haven for the Holiday

November 22, 2011

What does a Mars Rover do for the Thanksgiving holiday? While one rover will be sitting on the launchpad, preparing to head to the Red Planet (MSL/ Curiosity) the Opportunity rover has now trekked to an enticing outcrop near the summit of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. This summit or ridge has [...]

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Opportunity spotted Exploring vast Endeavour Crater from Mars Orbit

September 26, 2011

Opportunity has just been imaged in high resolution at Endeavour crater by a powerful NASA camera orbiting overhead in Mars orbit. The new image (see above) was snapped while NASA’s long lived robot was climbing a hilltop offering spectacular panoramic vistas peering into the vast crater which is some 14 miles (22 km) wide. The [...]

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Mars Reconaissance Orbiter

March 18, 2011

The Mars Reconaissance orbiter is NASA’s Mars’s space probe mission to mars launched with the purpose of finding evidence of liquid water on Mars and the history of water on the planet. The mission was launched August 12, 2005 and arrived at Mars March 10, 2006. The craft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force [...]

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