(Phys.org) —A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great detail.
While the Curiosity rover is chugging along on the surface of Mars, NASA is making other discoveries from samples taken from other Mars rovers. This time around, looking at rock samples from NASA’s Spirit rover, scientists have discovered that...
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Mars Curiosity rover to be offered as official Lego toy
Say cheese! Hilarious...
It’s a great time for Lego: there’s going to be a movie based on the building bricks, and the company just announced its latest set. As a part of Lego’s Cuusoo project, fans are able to send in designs and ideas for future Lego...
We’ve seen NASA‘s Mars Curiosity rover bore into Martian rock with a small drill multiple times, but the robot has just taken things to the next level: lasers. Specifically, the rover got to bore a small hole into Martian rock by...
Curiousity has taken a plethora — yes, a plethora — of wonderful images from the surface of Mars. You can see more of Curiosity’s greatest hits, so far, in the slideshow below. In response to questions about the rover’s...
In novel twist on the Internet’s “I made this” meme, NASA’s Twitter account for the Mars Curiosity Rover just tweeted that it made a hole in Mars: #PewPew on Repeat: I made this hole on Mars with 100 laser shots over 20...
Laser shots that harness a million watts of power for about five one-billionths of a second were fired by MSL's ChemCam instrument into a soil target named 'Sutton Inlier'. Sixteen frames from the 20 minutes experiment are time-lapsed/looped.
Lego has announced it will make an official set celebrating the Mars Rover Curiosity after more than 10,000 fans backed the design.
Since 2010 the Danish toy giant has invited fans to submit designs for new Lego sets via its 'CuuSoo'...
Mars rover Curiosity has doubtlessly been doing a whole lot of important science up there on the red planet, but it's also been sending back a ton of pictures to keep us simpler, non-scientist folks amused by all the pretty colors red. But what kind...
NASA's Curiosity rover is still uncovering new headscratchers for its science team as it finishes up exploration at its second drill site, nicknamed Cumberland. Figuring out the composition of a dark rocky exposure the rover recently photographed...
NASA's 9-year-old Mars rover Opportunity is on the move again after making a momentous discovery on the Red Planet and defying the limitations of Father Time.
Opportunity — which is nearing its 10th anniversary and has spent the last 20 months...
BBC: Opportunity, the rover that landed on Mars in 2004 for a 90-day mission, is still making discoveries 9 years later. Its newest discovery may be one of its most important—a rock with large clay deposits. The presence of clays indicates that...
Opportunity, aka The Little Rover That Could, is still making important discoveries 10 years into its Martian jaunt. After the devastating loss of twin rover Spirit in 2011, Opportunity rallied and kept trekking, only to recently discover a...
NASA’s Opportunity rover has analyzed a rock and determined that neutral water, suitable for drinking, once flowed through that rock in the very early days of Mars. Like It , +1 , Tweet It , Pin It Original content from Ubergizmo....
Interesting article by William Herkewitz at Popular Mechanics, via BadBlue Car News:The rover rolls its way across a barren red sea. It has just finished a geologic survey of Mars's massive Endeavor crater–finding more proof of the planet's watery...
Scientists on Friday called NASA's Opportunity rover gimpy and arthritic, but hailed its new discoveries about early water on Mars made almost 10 years after it was launched toward the Red Planet. The unmanned solar-powered vehicle has just analyzed...
Mars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More Layers, NASA
"Approaching its 10th anniversary of leaving Earth, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is on the move again, trekking to a new study area still many weeks away.
The destination,...
