NASA was quite excited for this milestone and wasted no time in posting it along with a selection of other Mars images snapped by the camera over the last two decades. Leslie Tamppari, MRO’s project ...
NASA is backing a new generation of nuclear rockets that could compress the months-long journey to Mars into a sprint ...
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) officially went into service above the Red Planet in November 2006. The spacecraft ...
After nearly 20 years on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped its 100,000th image of the ...
On some Mars images, Olympus Mons does not look dramatic at first glance. It sits there quietly, a wide pale rise against ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover recently captured a sweeping panorama of Mars’ Gale Crater under exceptionally favorable viewing conditions, offering one of the clearest looks yet at the vast Martian basin.
The announcement of potential biosignatures in a 3.5 billion-year-old rock on Mars is being overshadowed by budget drama at NASA. The announcement of potential biosignatures in a 3.5 billion-year-old ...
When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...
The White House scheme to reshape NASA by slashing its funding could jeopardize future human flights to Mars. Shown here is NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft - one of the three Mars orbiters set to ...
NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...