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Opportunity Blazes Through 4500 Sunsets on Mars and Gullies are Yet to Come!
The longest living Martian rover ever - Opportunity - has just surpassed another unfathomable milestone - 4500 Sols (or days)…
Drilling at Unfathomable Alien Landscapes – All in a Sols (Day’s) Work for Curiosity
Our beyond magnificent Curiosity rover has just finished her latest Red Planet drilling campaign - at the rock target called…
NASA’s InSight Lander Approved for 2018 Mars Launch
Top NASA managers have formally approved the launch of the agency’s InSight Lander to the Red Planet in the spring…
Mars at Closest Earth Approach Over SpaceX Recovered Falcon 9 at Sea – Photo
PORT CANAVERAL, FL - As you may have heard its Mars opposition season. What you may not have heard is…
Curiosity Cores Hole in Mars at ‘Lubango’ Fracture Zone
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover successfully bored a brand new hole in Mars at a tantalizing sandstone outcrop…
SpaceX Announces Plan to Launch Private Dragon Mission to Mars in 2018
SpaceX announced plans today, April 27, for the first ever private mission to Mars which involves sending an uncrewed version…
Opportunity Discovers Dust Devil, Explores Steepest Slopes on Mars
A “beautiful dust devil” was just discovered today, April 1, on the Red Planet by NASA’s long lived Opportunity rover…
Bold Euro-Russian Expedition Blasts Free of Earth En Route to Mars in Search of Life’s Indicators
The cooperative Euro-Russian ExoMars 2016 expedition is now en route to the Red Planet after successfully firing its upper stage…
ExoMars Spacecraft Launches to Red Planet Searching for Signs of Life
The joint European/Russian ExoMars spacecraft successfully launched early this morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Proton-M rocket…
Countdown Begins for Blastoff of ExoMars 2016 Spacecraft on March 14 – Watch Live
The countdown has begun for blastoff of the ambitious European/Russian ExoMars 2016 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on…