SAN FRANCISCO - Scrutiny by NASA's newest Mars orbiter is helping scientists
learn the stories of some of the weirdest landscapes on Mars, as well as more
familiar-looking parts of the Red Planet.
A glitch with a Mars orbiter relaying commands from Earth delayed plans for the Phoenix Mars Lander's second day of activities on Tuesday, NASA officials said.
A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has communicated with controllers daily since Oct. 30 through relays to Mars orbiters.
... been spotted by a space
probe as it orbits the red planet.The ice sheets – which are up to
half a mile thick ...
water.The US space agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used radar
echoes to image gentle ...
... has slipped far enough behind the sun today that signals from Mars-orbiting spacecraft are effectively blocked until mid-December. This solar conjunction happens every two years.
... of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the lander and listen for its beep.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has suffered a glitch that has stalled science observations.
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter unexpectedly rebooted its computer Monday morning, Feb. 23, and put itself into a limited-activity mode that is an automated safety response.
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has fully recovered from an unexpected computer re-set last week and resumed its scientific investigation of Mars.
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, which has been circling the red planet for nearly eight years, needs a risky reboot to address a long-known, potential vulnerability in its memory system.
(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter postponed a planned rebooting of the spacecraft this morning after seeing an unexpected rise in the temperature of a star camera that is ...
ESA's Mars Express finds concentration of rust in Aram Chaos crater.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- NASA says its powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode after being hit by a cosmic ray or solar particle....
