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Curiosity Drills 2nd Hole into Ancient Mars Rocks Searching for the Ingredients of Life

May 21, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter NASA’s Curiosity rover has just successfully bored inside ancient rocks on Mars for only the 2nd time since her nail biting landing in August 2012 inside Gale Crater as she searches for the ingredients of life. On Sunday, May 20, the [...]

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Send Your Name and a Haiku Poem to Mars on a Solar Winged MAVEN

May 7, 2013

Do you want to go to Mars? Well here’s your chance to get connected for a double barreled dose of Red Planet adventure courtesy of MAVEN – NASA’s next ‘Mission to Mars’ which is due to liftoff this November from the Florida Space Coast. For a limited time only, NASA is offering the general public [...]

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Mars Armada Resumes Contact with NASA – Ready to Rock ‘n Roll n’ Drill

May 2, 2013

After taking a well deserved and unavoidable break during April’s solar conjunction with Mars that blocked two way communication with Earth, NASA’s powerful Martian fleet of orbiters and rovers have reestablished contact and are alive and well and ready to Rock ‘n Roll ‘n Drill. “Both orbiters and both rovers are in good health after [...]

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More Evidence That Mars Lost Its Atmosphere

April 8, 2013

Although today Mars’ atmosphere is sparse and thin — barely 1% the density of Earth’s at sea level — scientists don’t believe that was always the case. The Red Planet likely had a much denser atmosphere similar to ours, long, long ago. So… what happened to it? NASA’s Curiosity rover has now found strong evidence [...]

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Terran Fleet at Mars Takes a Break for Conjunction – Enjoy the Video and Parting View

April 6, 2013

Earth’s science invasion fleet at Mars is taking a break from speaking with their handlers back on Earth. Why ? Because as happens every 26 months, the sun has gotten directly in the way of Mars and Earth. Earth, Mars and the Sun are lined up in nearly a straight line. The geometry is normal [...]

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