Tag Archives: Mars Science Laboratory

Mars Curiosity Rover Snaps Amazing New Selfies

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NASA has got a good thing going. Its Curiosity Mars Rover is currently traveling. That is towards the southwestern region of the cold planet. This has occurred after many weeks of exploration of...

Curiosity Rover Discovers Continental Crust on Mars Similar to Earth

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover has once again made a brand new discovery. A few light-colored rocks have been found on the surface of the Red Planet that bear an uncanny resemblance to the geological...

Pyramid Found On Mars Built by An Ancient Civilization?

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On the 7th of May the NASA Curiosity Rover took some photographs in which a rock like structure has the shape of a pyramid. The pyramid is supposedly the size of a small car or it could be the tip of...

NASA’s Flying Saucer for Mars Landing Suffers Parachute Failure

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NASA simulated a second time a descent onto Mars using the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) or also known as Flying Saucer on Monday. All went well and NASA engineers had a lot to cheer...

NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Traverses Martian Terrain

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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover slowly and steadily made its way up a steep path on the Martian landscape. This was after the goal seemed impossible to reach. It was over 70 feet of land that had to be...

Liquid Water could be on Mars according to new Curiosity Research

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We know that there is water in the form of ice on Mars. New research from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows that it is possible that there is even liquid water on Mars. It might even be close to the...

NASA Rover on Mars finds Nitrogen

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NASA's Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on Mars. The nitrogen was detected in the form of nitric oxide, and could be released from the breakdown of nitrates during heating.Nitrates...

Curiosity Rover Celebrates 1st Martian Year

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NASA announced that the Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year (687 Earth days) today. The Mars Curiosity Rover has accomplished the mission's main goal of determining whether Mars once...

NASA hopes to launch Flying Saucer Soon

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA hopes to try again to launch a "flying saucer" into Earth's atmosphere to test Mars mission technology after losing the chance because of bad weather, project managers said...