Mars
Future Robots May “Hop” Across Mars
NASA's Spirit Rover has just completed a long hard slog across difficult Martian terrain to reach the Columbia hills. The…
Crater Hale on Mars
This is an image of impact Crater Hale, which is located in the Argyle basin in the southern hemisphere of…
Interview with Colin Pillinger
Professor Colin Pillinger is Head of Planetary & Space Sciences, Open University, and the UK principal investigator on the Beagle-2…
Collapsed Canyons on Mars
The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft took this photograph of a series of canyon systems on the surface of…
Getting Out of Endurance Might Not Be Easy
Engineers at NASA knew they were taking a risk when they piloted the Opportunity rover into the stadium-sized Endurance crater…
Close View of Phobos
This photograph of Phobos, one of Mars' two tiny moons, was taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft…
Rover Toolkits are Still Full
It's been 10 months since the Mars Exploration Rovers arrived at the Red Planet, and their full suite of scientific…
Tithonium Chasma on Mars
This image is of a region of Mars called Tithonium Chasma, which is at the western end of the enormous…
Beagle 2 Just Didn’t Have the Money to Succeed
A new report by the UK House of Commons science and technology select committee pins the blame for the loss…
Rovers Have Returned 50,000 Pictures
This relatively boring picture of Spirit's calibration target, with a bit of rocky ground in the background is the 50,000th…