Curiosity Rover
Curiosity Looked up and Saw Phobos During the Daytime
This image of Phobos in the sky above Mars was taken by Curiosity in 2012 and was recently refurbished by…
Mars 2020 Stands Up on its Wheels For The First Time
The Mars 2020 rover recently passed a milestone at NASA JPL, where it stood on its wheels and legs for…
Curiosity Finds A Region of Ancient Dried Mud. It Could Have Been an Oasis Billions of Year Ago
What happened to Mars? If Mars and Earth were once similar, as scientists think, what happened to all the water?…
Curiosity Sniffs a Spike in Methane. Could it be a Sign of Life?
The Curiosity rover has detected another methane plume on Mars, once again raising the issue of whether or not there…
Don’t Forget, Curiosity’s Sister Rover is Flying to Mars in 2020
The Mars 2020 mission is getting ever closer to the day when it will be launched to the Red Planet.
NASA Senior Engineer Kobie Boykins talks About Exploring Mars. And I was There to See it!
I recently had the honor of attending a Nat Geo Live talk hosted by Kobie Boykins. As NASA JPL's chief…
Curiosity has Finally Sampled a Clay-Rich Region on Mars
It's hard to believe that MSL Curiosity has been on Mars for almost seven years. But it has, and during…
Curiosity Crashed, but it’s Working Fine Again. NASA Won’t Have to Send Astronauts to Turn it off and Back on Again.
A few weeks after Curiosity suffered a glitch that put it in safe mode, the rover is once again operating…
NASA used Curiosity’s Sensors to Measure the Gravity of a Mountain on Mars
Some very clever people have figured out how to use MSL Curiosity's navigation sensors to measure the gravity of a…
There Might be Enough Oxygen Below the Surface of Mars to Support Life
According to new study supported by NASA, a team of researchers found that Mars may have enough oxygen in subsurface…