Just two weeks after landing its Curiosity rover on Mars, NASA has announced it will send another robot to the planet in 2016. The InSight spacecraft will be a static lander that will carry instruments to investigate Mars’ deep interior. Scientists say this will give them a clearer idea of how the rocky planets formed [...]
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity has zapped its first Martian rock. Curiosity rover fired its ChemCam laser at a tennis-ball-sized stone lying about 2.5 m away on the ground. The brief but powerful burst of light from the instrument vaporized the surface of the rock, revealing details of its basic chemistry. This was just target [...]
NASA’s Curiosity rover has lifted its mast and used its high navigation cameras for the first time. The robot vehicle has returned black and white images that capture part of its own body, its shadow on the ground and views off to the horizon. Spectacular relief – the rim cliffs of the crater in which [...]
The Curiosity rover remains perfectly on course to make its Monday (GMT) landing on the Red Planet, NASA says. The NASA robot’s flight trajectory is so good engineers cancelled the latest course correction they had planned. To be sure of touching down in the right place on the surface, the vehicle must hit a box [...]
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