Mars Rover Finds Mysterious Rocks and More Signs of Water
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ith one Mars rover climbing into the hills and the other descending deep into a crater, scientists yesterday reported the discovery of several mysterious rock structures along with yet more signs that Mars was once awash in water.
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The Mars rovers have found fresh evidence that water was plentiful in both the hills and plains of the now-barren Red Planet, scientists at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Thursday.
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Scientists are baffled by a mysterious power boost to one of its two robotic rovers on Mars.
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Scientists controlling the Opportunity Mars rover are taking an up-close look at an intriguing pitted rock on Mars, now dubbed "Heat Shield Rock".
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Photographs of the Martian surface taken by an orbiting spacecraft have revealed powerful evidence that liquid water occasionally flows on the Red Planet's surface, an unexpected finding that suddenly increases the odds that the planet may harbor some kind of life.
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The hills of Mars yielded more tantalizing clues about how water shaped the Red Planet in tests by NASA's robotic geologist, Spirit, while its twin, Opportunity, observed the deep crater it climbed into two months ago, scientists said on Wednesday.
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A cracked rock called Escher is helping NASA scientists reconstruct the history of water on Mars. They say that the crater currently being explored by the Opportunity rover may have been shaped by a second
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LOS ANGELES -- After months of studying rocks and searching for water, the Mars rover Opportunity is taking a look at some of the junk it left behind during its fiery descent last January.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rover, Opportunity, has discovered more evidence that water may have flowed over rocks on the Red Planet. Data sent back by Opportunity suggests an area known as the Meridiani Planum, was drenched
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A provocative new study of photographs taken from orbit suggests that liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars as recently as several years ago, raising the possibility that the Red Planet could harbor an environment favorable to life.
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US scientists have found new data showing patterns of water and methane on Mars could improve the chances life once existed there.
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Almost by accident, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has found a rock that may point to a second water event in the red planet's past.
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In a prelude of more problems that are likely to arise, both of NASA's Mars    rovers experienced glitches this week as they plow through unknown engineering    territory, operating well beyond what the mission blueprints called for.
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has come across  an interesting object&nbsp;-- perhaps a meteorite sitting out in the open at Meridiani  Planum. Initial data taken by the robot's Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer  (Mini-TES) is suggestive that the odd-looking rock is made of  metal.
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&quot;We have evidence that interaction with liquid water changed the composition of this rock,&quot; said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, chief investigator for the science instruments on both rovers. &quot;This is different from the rocks out on ...
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LOS ANGELES   The twin Mars rovers have found a wonderland of weird rocks and enticing dunes along with more evidence the Red Planet once had water, NASA scientists said Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES -- After decades of scouring images of Mars for signs of water, scientists believe they have found stunning evidence that water may even now be flowing through the Red Planet's frigid surface.The news excited scientists who hunt for extraterrestrial life.