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View of an igneous clast named Harrison, which is embedded in a conglomerate rock in Gale crater, and features elongated light-toned feldspar crystals. This mosaic is a combination of an image from Mastcam with higher-resolution images from ChemCam’s Remote Micro-Imager. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/IRAP/U. Nantes/IAS/MSSS The Curiosity rover, still roaming in Gale crater, has […] NASA’s Curiosity rover conducts 4th drill campaign at “Pahrump Hills” rock outcrop on Sol 759, Sept. 24, 2014, at the foothills of Mount Sharp seen in the distance in this composite photo mosaic. Navcam camera raw images stitched and colorized. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Ken Kremer-kenkremer.com/Marco Di Lorenzo “Drill, Baby, Drill” has replaced “Drive, Drive, Drive” […] Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ PASADENA, Calif — The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes directly in front of the other, Deimos, in a new series of sky-watching images from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity. […] NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, has taken a hyper-detailed, billion-pixel image of it’s surroundings. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / awaltersphoto.com . Inset Credit: NASA Just seven weeks shy of its one-year anniversary since making landfall on the rust-hued surface of the Red Planet, NASA’s $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity continues […] If the cosmos is filled with alien life, then why haven’t we heard from them? Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle This article originally appeared on the website for The Planetary Society and is republished with permission. You and your wife are on a two-hour trip late at night in separate cars, travelling through dense […] Does life exist on far-flung worlds throughout the universe? Image Credit: NASA There were two different stories floating around the internet last week—each one startling in its own right, and both highlighting the ups and downs in the search for alien life. […] NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity has detected further evidence that the Red Planet once could have supported life. Image Credit: Max Q Entertainment The Mars Science Laboratory rover trolling the dusty plains of the Red Planet has spotted evidence that provides one more bit of proof that Mars was once a wet […] This image from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the first sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover’s drill. The image was taken after the sample was transferred from the drill to the rover’s scoop. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL Six months since touching down on the surface of Mars, NASA’s remarkable Curiosity rover has completed […] Curiosity’s destination for its first drilling will be this patch of veined, flat-lying rocks. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL A little over five months since making landfall on the blood-red surface of Mars, NASA’s remarkable Curiosity rover is heading towards its first sample-drilling target: a flat rock, laced with pale veins, which may yield clues […] Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems On Friday Sept. 7, 2012 (Sol 32) the Mars Science Laboratory rover “Curiosity” turned its camera around and snapped this picture of itself from its landing spot in Gale Crater. The camera fixture is located on Curiosity’s spindly robotic arm. […] |
 Next Launch Starlink 1 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL Scheduled for: TBD NET 23 May 2019 Click here for more details... 
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