August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently exploring the Gale crater on Mars, weighs ...science missions but are not a substitute for the larger ‘flagship’ missions like Curiosity or Europa Clipper. Destinations So where can we reasonably expect to explore in ...
08 June 2018
Curiosity discovers ancient organic molecules on Mars
The Curiosity rover which is currently trundling around the Gale Crater ...there signs of life on Mars?" said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, at NASA Headquarters. "We don't know, but these results tell us we are on ...
28 June 2016
Oxides discovered on Mars hint at an oxygen-rich past
The discovery of manganese oxides in Martian rocks found by NASA's Curiosity rover, indicate that higher levels of atmospheric oxygen once existed on the Red Planet, making it more Earth-like ...
29 July 2020
Puzzling new gas signatures found on Mars
... how methane is generated. If that wasn’t difficult enough, methane observations on Mars are notoriously ambiguous. Last year NASA’s Curiosity rover reported the highest burst of methane recorded yet, but neither ESA’s Mars Express nor the TGO...
13 November 2019
Curiosity uncovers oxygen mystery on Mars
... Crater on the Red Planet. One of the jobs NASA's Curiosity rover is set to perform while it ambles around the martian... explain this," said Melissa Trainer, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland who led ...
14 May 2021
China is about to land its Zhurong rover on Mars
... 240 kilograms, Zhurong, named after an ancient fire god, is smaller than NASA’s Curiosity rover but slightly larger than the now-defunct Spirit and Opportunity rovers. It is powered by solar panels and is designed to study Mars’ climate, magnetic...
