The spacecraft encountered a hurdle last Friday, when a hiccup during boot-up interrupted its planned activities and triggered a protective safe mode

The spacecraft encountered a hurdle last Friday, when a hiccup during boot-up interrupted its planned activities and triggered a protective safe mode
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has gained its first look at the moon, pursuing a deeper understanding by examining it in infrared wavelengths
Erosion-carved troughs may be infant versions of larger features known as Martian “spiders”
Boron has been identified for the first time on the surface of the Red Planet, indicating the potential for long-term habitable groundwater in the ancient past
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on the Red Planet lies about as much water as what’s in Lake Superior
After collecting drilled rock powder in arguably the most scenic landscape yet, NASA’s mobile laboratory is driving toward other destinations
Lakes and snowmelt-fed streams appeared roughly a billion years after a well-documented, earlier era of wet conditions
Formations found in Mars’ Gale Crater were formed by the drying up of great bodies of water, a new study has shown
Data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that ravines on the Red Planet could be being made by carbon dioxide
Tune in at 17:00 UTC to find out more about the next spacecraft to touch down on the surface of the Red Planet
Chemicals found in Martian rocks by the rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now
The Martian image comes after NASA’s rover drilled its eighth hole on the Red Planet
The rover’s operators plan to use the vehicle through the upcoming Martian winter in order to conduct a survey of Marathon Valley
Astrobiologist Charles Cockrell tells us what creatures we might find on Mars
Witness this monster of a Martian supervolcano – the tallest peak in the Solar System
Comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) is set for a close encounter with the Red Planet in late 2014.
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