Mars

After 15 years on Mars, it’s the end of the road for Opportunity 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 15, 2019
The NASA rover’s surprisingly long mission moved Mars science past ‘follow the water’

By David Aragorn
NASA spots Mars InSight lander from space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 15, 2019
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the newest machine on Mars. You can even see the solar panels.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s history-making Mars rover Opportunity declared dead 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2019
The robotic trailblazer’s mission comes to an end after more than 14 years on Mars. Goodnight, Oppy.

By David Aragorn
NASA Is Making One Last Attempt to Call Opportunity Rover on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 13, 2019
Opportunity has been silent for months after a global dust storm on Mars.

By David Aragorn
Possibility of recent underground volcanism on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 13, 2019
New research suggests liquid water is present beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars. Now, a new study argues there needs to be an underground source of heat for liquid water to exist underneath the polar ice cap.

By David Aragorn
Mars rover Curiosity makes first gravity-measuring traverse on the Red Planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 9, 2019
A clever use of non-science engineering data from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has let a team of researchers, including an Arizona State University graduate student, measure the density of rock layers in 96-mile-wide Gale Crater.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover weighed the mountain it’s climbing 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 1, 2019
Rock under the rover’s wheels is more like soil than cement, a clue to how Mount Sharp formed

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Insight Lander on Mars Spotted from Space!0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 14, 2018
NASA’s newly arrived Mars lander has been spotted by one its orbiting cousins.

By David Aragorn
Mars lander takes a selfie 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 14, 2018
After painstakingly swiveling the camera mounted on its robotic arm for a week, NASA’s InSight spacecraft, which landed last month on Mars, has completed its first photographic survey—of the sand-filled crater surrounding it and of itself, NASA announced today.

By David Aragorn
Sounds of Mars wind captured by Nasa’s InSight lander 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 11, 2018
Scientists celebrate recording low-frequency rumblings – ‘an unplanned treat’

By David Aragorn