By Ken Kremer, on May 15th, 2015 NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of the sun setting at the close of the mission’s 956th Martian day, or sol (April 15, 2015), from the rover’s location in Gale Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Texas A&M Univ. See dramatic blue Martian sunset animation and matching daylight view below!
After nearly three years of laboring […]
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By Ken Kremer, on May 7th, 2015 NASA announces public contest for ideas on achieving a sustained human presence on Mars as part of the agency’s “Journey to Mars” initiative. Credit: NASA
Here’s your chance to influence how NASA will fulfill its agency-wide goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s for a sustained period of time.
NASA has […]
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By Ken Kremer, on April 30th, 2015 Opportunity at Spirit of Saint Louis crater scanning into Marathon Valley and Endeavour crater from current location on Mars in April 2015 in this photo mosaic. The crater, featuring an odd mound of rocks, is the gateway to Marathon Valley and exposures of water altered clay minerals. This pancam camera photo mosaic was […]
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By Ken Kremer, on April 22nd, 2015 NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover rolling across Mars at the foothills of Mount Sharp, seen in the background, in this mosaic of images taken on April 11, 2015 (Sol 952). Navcam camera raw images stitched and colorized. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Marco Di Lorenzo/Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
NASA’s intrepid Mars rovers continue setting spectacular records for roving across […]
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By Ken Kremer, on April 21st, 2015 This map-projected view of Ceres was created from images taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft during its initial approach to the dwarf planet, prior to being captured into orbit in March 2015. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Scientists spearheading the Dawn mission to dwarf planet Ceres have published the first color map of the mysterious world since […]
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By Ken Kremer, on April 3rd, 2015 The View from Opportunity on Mars Today Opportunity arrives at Spirit of Saint Louis crater and peers into Marathon Valley and Endeavour crater from current location on Mars as of April 3, 2015, in this photo mosaic. The crater is the gateway to Marathon Valley and exposures of water altered clay minerals. This […]
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By Ken Kremer, on March 31st, 2015 This sequence of images shows a blast zone where the sky crane from NASA’s Curiosity rover mission hit the ground after setting the rover down in August 2012, and how that dark scar’s appearance changed over the subsequent 30 months. The images are from HiRISE on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of […]
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By Ken Kremer, on March 26th, 2015 Curiosity investigates a beautiful outcrop of scientifically enticing dark and light mineral veins at ”Garden City” outcrop at the base of Mount Sharp at current location on Mars. This photo mosaic was stitched from Mastcam color camera raw images. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/Marco Di Lorenzo
After about a two-week stand down to investigate the […]
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By Ken Kremer, on March 25th, 2015 View from Opportunity on Mars today! Opportunity’s view on the day the NASA rover exceeded the distance of a marathon on the surface of Mars on March 24, 2015, Sol 3968. Rover stands at Spirit of Saint Louis crater near mountaintop at Marathon Valley overlook and Martian cliffs at Endeavour crater holding deposits […]
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By Ken Kremer, on February 27th, 2015 This self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the “Mojave” site, where its drill collected the mission’s second taste of Mount Sharp. The scene combines dozens of images taken during January 2015 by the MAHLI camera at the end of the rover’s robotic arm. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS See drill site […]
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