How to drive a robot on Mars
- 13-Nov-2018
CALIFORNIA: Some 78 million miles (126 million kilometers) from Earth, alone on the immense and frigid Red Planet, a robot the size of a small 4×4 wakes up just after sunrise. And just as it has every day for the past six years, it awaits its instructions. Around 9:30 Mars time, a message arrives from […]
NASA troubleshooting problem with Mars rover drill
- 14-Dec-2016
SAN FRANCISCO: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has halted its trek up a mountain filled with potentially habitable niches for life while engineers troubleshoot a problem with one of its key instruments, scientists said on Tuesday. Curiosity landed on Mars four years ago to determine if the planet most like Earth in the solar system ever had […]
Mars has nitrogen, key to life: NASA
- 25-Mar-2015
WASHINGTON: NASA's Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a significant discovery that adds to evidence the Red Planet could once have sustained life, the space agency said Tuesday.
NASA finds organic molecules, methane gas on Mars
- 17-Dec-2014
WASHINGTON: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has found carbon-containing compounds in samples drilled out of an ancient rock, the first definitive detection of organics on the surface of Earth’s neighbor planet, scientists said on Tuesday.