Searching for Scarce Life with Interplanetary Rovers
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Chile's Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth. So dry that, in some regions, not even bacteria can survive. That makes it a perfect place to test out ZoÃÂ«, a prototype rover designed to detect life's faintest traces.
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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.
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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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It's been a watershed year  of science for&nbsp;the NASA&nbsp;Mars rover Spirit,&nbsp;a  six-wheeled&nbsp;automaton&nbsp;that continues to probe the red planet's  secrets&nbsp;as it clambers up the Columbia Hills.
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NASA&#39;s Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled. The more they look, the more evidence of past liquid water on Mars these robots discover.
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DENVER, Colo. -- The next spacecraft destined for&nbsp;Mars is rapidly coming together&nbsp;here on Earth -- an interplanetary probe that carries the most powerful instruments ever sent to the red planet.
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After surviving near fatal dust storms on Mars, NASA&#39;s Opportunity rover is gearing up for its long-awaited trek inside an expansive crater on the red planet&#39;s surface.
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Work is underway to establish the first interplanetary laser communication link. The &#36;300 million NASA experiment, if successful, will connect robotic spacecraft at Mars with scientists back on Earth via a beam of light traveling some 300 million kilometers.
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ORLANDO, Florida -- Replanting boot prints on the Moon. Hurling expeditionary crews to distant and dusty Mars and other destinations. Executing a 21st century outreach campaign to faraway worlds demands a safe, sustainable, and affordable transport vehicle system.
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Data from Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity shows its landing site is a prime spot for a return mission to look for life.
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NASA's&nbsp;twin&nbsp;Mars rovers&nbsp;Spirit and Opportunity&nbsp;have  yielded volumes of new data about the red planet in the last year - the least of  which involves the planet's history of water. But the rovers have also amazed  their human handlers with their longevity, lasting nearly four times&nbsp;their  initial 90-day mission&nbsp;despite some early glitches that popped up after  landing.
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Opportunity peers into crater After weathering the dust storms of the past two months, the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have had their solar panels swept free off dust by kinder, gentler winds. With full power restored, the two explorers are now ready to renew their slow crawl over the surface of the red planet.â¦
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Future space explorers might bring back more than just pictures from their excursions -- they could mine the planets for profit. By Mark Baard.
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GOLDEN, COLORADO -- Any high hopes of sustaining expeditions on the Moon, Mars or beyond will depend on getting "down and dirty" on those worlds -- in the form of using on-the-spot resources.
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When the Mars rovers Opportunity and Spirit reached their distant destination in early 2004, NASA scientists hoped the vehicles would probe the planet's frigid landscape for 90 days before they pooped out or were undone by the harsh Martian environment.
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LIVELY MARS : ET might just be out there. NASA&#39;s two Mars rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, landed on the Red Planet early in 2004 and have since found conclusive evidence of water that could possibly have harboured life.
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The crash of the Genesis spacecraft is a loss for NASA and for science. Once again, the potential of robotic space exploration is called into question.