NASA's Mars Curiosity rover, which is seeking new insights on whether the Red Planet supported microbial life in past, is readying to ingest the rock sample it picked up a week ago. The mission's chief scientist, John Grotzinger, said he expected this to happen very shortly. ...
03:40 AM, Feb 18, 2013
Scientists have zeroed in on a Martian target for the Curiosity rover to drill into: A rock outcrop as flat as a pool table that's expected to yield fresh insight into the red planet's history. ...
08:33 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Pete Theisinger, the Curiosity Project Manager, has said that Curiosity's first test drive and the fact that everything was on track was a big achievement. ...
11:55 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Cape Canaveral: NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took a 16-minute drive on Wednesday, its first since reaching the Red Planet to search for habitats that could have supported microbial life. The $2.5-billion, two-year mission, NASA's first astrobiology initiative since the 1970s-era Viking probes, kicked off on August 6, with a risky, but successful landing on at a site NASA has named "Bradbury Landing," a nod to the late science fiction author...
11:44 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Los Angeles: Scientists on Tuesday prepared to send Curiosity on its first test drive over the billion-year-old rocks of Mars and said a busted wind sensor won't jeopardize its mission of determining whether life could exist there. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena turned four of the rover's six wheels in place this week in a successful "wheel wiggle" to test the steering for Wednesday's trek, mission manager...
12:43 PM, Aug 22, 2012
Los Angeles: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has announced that it has completed "brain transplant" on Mars rover Curiosity. As its main and backup computers have been successfully upgraded with new software after a four-day effort, Curiosity is now a big step closer to begin its mission of finding out whether life has ever existed on Mars, according to the JPL. Curiosity has been on the surface...
01:55 PM, Aug 15, 2012
Six days after landing on Mars, NASA's first nuclear-powered rover Curiosity has uplinked its first 360-degree panoramic view in colour. ...
09:36 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Pasadena: NASA's Curiosity rover has beamed back its first color photo from the ancient crater where it landed on Mars and a video showing the last 2 1/2 minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Martian atmosphere, a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world. The picture released on Tuesday revealed a rust-tinged, pebbly landscape and the crater rim off in the distance. The six-wheel rover snapped the...
09:59 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Pasadena, California: NASA's Curiosity rover on Monday transmitted a low-resolution video showing the last 2 1/2 minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Mars atmosphere, giving Earthlings a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world. As thumbnails of the video flashed on a big screen on Monday, scientists and engineers at the NASA Jet Propulsion let out "oohs" and "aahs." The recording began with the protective heat shield...
08:52 AM, Aug 07, 2012
Curiosity, a two billion dollar rover by NASA, made a perfect landing on Mars earlier on Monday. ...
02:17 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: NASA's first-ever nuclear powered Mars Rover is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet at 11 am on Monday morning. It took $2.5 billion to build Curiosity. At one ton, it's the heaviest man-made object to land on another planet. With five kilos of Plutonium dioxide on board, it's also the first nuclear powered one. Also aboard is eighteen times more equipment than any Mars rover ever...
06:27 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Pasadena: The Mars rover Curiosity, the most sophisticated mobile science lab ever sent to another world, hurtled closer to the Red Planet on Saturday, on track "to fly through the eye of the needle" for a precise, safe landing on Sunday night, NASA officials said. Mission control engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles acknowledge that delivering the one-ton, six-wheeled, nuclear-powered rover in one piece is a highly...
08:02 AM, Aug 05, 2012
