Aug 27, 2013
An image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released today shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover and the wheel tracks from its landing site to the “Glenelg” area where the rover worked for the first half of 2013. The orbiter’s High...
Aug 2, 2013
NASA has put together a short video showing all the activity from the Mars rover Curiosity to celebrate its first full year on the Red Planet. The two-minute video shows highlights of the mission since it touched down on 6 August 2012. Yesterday’s tweet from Curiosity...
Jul 19, 2013
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune – the 14th known moon to be circling the giant planet. The moon, designated S/2004 N 1, is estimated to be no more than 12 miles across, making it the...
Mar 18, 2013
Rising above the present location of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the US, Mount Sharp is featured in new imagery from the rover. This layered mound, also called Aeolis Mons, in the centre of Gale Crater...
Feb 21, 2013
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled into a rock beyond Earth and collected a sample from its...
