An analysis of rock samples collected by the Curiosity rover indicates that Mars could have supported living microbes, the American space agency NASA has said. "A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment. From what we know now, the answer is yes," Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program told reporters on Tuesday. ...
03:49 AM, Mar 13, 2013
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
For the first time, NASA's rover Curiosity used its on-board drill to collect a sample of Martian bedrock that might offer evidence of a long-gone wet environment, the US space agency reported on Saturday. ...
09:49 AM, Feb 10, 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
A NASA spacecraft is keeping tabs on a vast dust storm on Mars that has spawned changes in the Martian atmosphere felt by Curiosity rover on the Red planet's surface. The Martian dust storm was first spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on November 10 and has been tracked ever since, the space agency said. ...
05:31 AM, Nov 27, 2012
Cape Canaveral: NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the most Earth-like planet in the solar system was suitable for microbial life, has found clear evidence its landing site was once awash in water, a key ingredient for life, scientists said on Thursday. Curiosity, a roving chemistry laboratory the size of a small car, touched down on August 6 inside a giant impact basin near the planet's equator. The...
05:01 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Washington: NASA's robotic rover Curiosity is making its mark on Mars, in a way so big that it can be seen from space. In just one month, it's driven 368 feet on the red planet, slightly more than the length of a football field. Curiosity's slightly zig-zaggy tyre tracks were photographed by a NASA satellite circling Mars and also from the rover's rear-facing cameras. The spacecraft landed on Aug. 5...
12:46 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Los Angeles: NASA's Curiosity rover is making global headlines as it travels uncharted territory on Mars, and it will venture into new realms back on Earth this week when it premieres a new will.i.am song. The Black Eyed Peas rapper's tune 'Reach For The Stars' will be broadcast live from the surface of Mars, via Curiosity, at 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EDT/2000 GMT) on Tuesday to a news conference...
02:57 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Washington: In yet another landmark achievement, NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back the first recorded human voice that traveled from Earth to another planet and back. In spoken words radioed to the rover on Mars and back to NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) on Earth, the space agency Administrator Charles Bolden, according to a press statement, noted the difficulty of landing a rover on Mars, congratulated NASA employees and the...
09:40 AM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: Rovio Mobile, makers of the popular mobile game - Angry Birds, is all set to take the birds to the next level. Rovio has released a brand new campaign for its Angry Birds Space installment. The Angry Birds Space will now feature new missions which carry on the fight between the birds and the green pigs who have hijacked the Curiosity Mars rover and are using it to...
03:11 PM, Aug 25, 2012
London: NASA's Curiosity rover has captured a strange white light dancing across the horizon of Mars and four blobs hovering in the sky, which UFO hunters claim are alien ships monitoring humans' baby steps into the universe. While the images are certainly a curiosity, NASA and photography experts insist they are nothing more than blemishes on the images, picked up by the camera lens sitting on the rover at a...
12:29 PM, Aug 23, 2012
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
Pasadena: NASA's Curiosity rover has zapped its first Martian rock, aiming its laser for the sake of science. During the target practice on Sunday, Curiosity fired 30 pulses at a nearby rock over a 10-second window, burning a small hole. Since landing in Gale Crater two weeks ago, the six-wheel rover has been checking out its instruments including the laser. During its two-year mission, Curiosity was expected to point the...
11:22 PM, Aug 20, 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
Pasadena: This week's arrival of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity set the stage for a potentially game-changing quest to learn whether the planet most like Earth ever had a shot at developing life, but follow-up missions exist only on drawing boards. The United States had planned to team up with Europe on a trio of missions beginning in 2016 that would culminate in the return of Mars soil and rock samples...
01:29 AM, Aug 12, 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
Washington: Giving new insight into the Mars landscape, NASA's Curiosity has sent first set of colour images from the 'Red planet', the US space agency said. The agency said the set of images give first coloured horizon-to-horizon glimpse of the Gale Crater. "After a year in cold storage, where it endured the rigors of launch, the deep space cruise to Mars and everything that went on during landing, it is...
09:22 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Pasadena: NASA has received a flood of new black and white images from the Curiosity rover on Mars that it will stitch together to make a panorama. The photos began pouring in on Wednesday morning after the nuclear powered rover raised its camera equipped mast. The raw images reveal the rover's shadow on the ground and the Martian horizon. Curiosity has beamed home a steady stream of images since touching...
09:00 PM, Aug 08, 2012
