ExoMars rover
ESA Has a Playground for Mars Rovers to Learn how to Explore the Red Planet
NASA makes successful rover missions seem mundane. Spirit and Opportunity were wildly successful, and Curiosity and Perseverance would both be…
Rovers Will be Starting to Make Their Own Decisions About Where to Search for Life
We all know how exploration by rover works. The rover is directed to a location and told to take a…
Curiosity Finds Organic Molecules That Could Have Been Produced by Life on Mars
What do coal, crude oil, and truffles have in common? Go ahead. We'll wait. The answer is thiophenes, a molecule…
Scientists Search for Ancient Fossils in Australia, Practicing the Techniques They’ll Use on Mars
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover is heading to Mars soon to look for fossils. The ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars rover is heading to…
India’s First Mars Mission Set to Blast off Seeking Methane Signature
India is gearing up for its first ever space undertaking to the Red Planet - dubbed the Mars Orbiter Mission,…
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NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover To Seek Signs of Past Life and Collect Samples for Earth Return
NASA’s next Mars rover set for liftoff in 2020 should focus on three primary objectives; seeking signs of past life,…
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Final Construction Starts for Europe’s 2016 Methane Sniffing Mars Mission
Has life ever existed on Mars? Or anywhere beyond Earth? Answering that question is one of the most profound scientific…
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Curiosity Halfway to Red Planet Touchdown
[/caption] As of today, NASA’s car sized Curiosity rover has reached the halfway point in her 352 million mile (567…
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A Penny for your Curiosity on Mars
[/caption] NASA’s huge Curiosity Mars Science Lab (MSL) rover is carrying a vintage Lincoln penny along for the long interplanetary…