Opportunity Rover

Opportunity Rover Team Honors Pioneering Lindbergh Flight at Mars Mountaintop Crater

Martian Reminder of a Pioneering Flight. Names related to the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic have been informally…

10 years ago

Obama Administration Proposes $18.5 Billion Budget for NASA – Bolden

The Obama Administration today (Feb. 2) proposed a NASA budget allocation of $18.5 Billion for the new Fiscal Year 2016,…

10 years ago

Opportunity’s Breathtaking View from Atop Cape Tribulation

Imagine if you were standing on Mars, beside the Opportunity rover, high on the summit of Cape Tribulation. You don’t…

10 years ago

Canadian Micro-Rover and Lander “Northern Light” Aim for Launch to Mars in 2018

The first Canadian mission to Mars could be blasting off towards the Red Planet in just three years time. At…

10 years ago

Opportunity Rover Spots Comet Siding Spring from the Surface of Mars!

It looks like NASA's hard-working Opportunity Rover nabbed our very first pictures of a comet seen from another world!  A…

10 years ago

India’s MOM Snaps Spectacular Portrait of New Home – the Red Planet

MOM is truly something special. For her latest eye popping feat, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has snapped the first…

10 years ago

The Little Rover that Could: Opportunity Reaches Odometer Milestone

NASA’s Opportunity mars rover now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles of driving. Given that the…

10 years ago

Opportunity Overlooks Ridge for Spectacular Vista of Vast Martian Crater and Habitable Zone Ahead

NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover captures sweeping panoramic vista near the ridgeline of 22 km (14 mi) wide Endeavour Crater's western…

11 years ago

“Tea, Earl Grey, Hot”… How Scientists Replicated a Mars Meteorite

Captain Picard orders tea "Tea, Earl Grey, hot." Who doesn't remember that famous command by Captain Picard's of TV's "Star…

11 years ago