Jan 26 Second NASA Rover Lands on Mars; Spirit Prognosis Improves NASA celebrated the successful landing of its second rover, Opportunity, Saturday night on the opposite side of Mars from its twin rover, Spirit. Continue reading
Jan 26 Watch Rovers on Mars The NASA rover Opportunity landed in a shallow crater on Mars over the weekend and transmitted back images of a smooth red surface punctured with bedrock outcroppings. Ray Suarez discusses the mission and its findings with Orlando Figueroa, director of… Continue watching
Jan 23 European Orbiter Confirms Ice in Mars Polar Cap Europe's Mars orbiter has found the most direct evidence yet of water in the form of ice in the south polar cap of Mars, the European Space Agency announced Friday. Continue reading
Jan 22 NASA Rover Stops Transmitting Data From Mars NASA's rover Spirit has failed to transmit data from Mars for more than 24 hours in what mission scientists thought at first was a weather-related interruption but now believe could be a serious hardware or software problem. Continue reading
Jan 22 Watch Lost Contact NASA scientists have not received any transmissions from their Martian rover Spirit in over 24 hours. Jeffrey Brown discusses this setback with Charles Elachi, director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Continue watching
Jan 19 NASA Ends Service Missions to Hubble Telescope By PBS News Hour NASA has said it will no longer service the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been relaying spectacular images of celestial objects from its orbital vantage point for more than ten years. Continue reading
Jan 15 Mars Rover Rolls Onto Planet’s Surface Nearly two weeks after its arrival on Mars, the robotic rover Spirit rolled off its landing platform Thursday for its first trip onto Martian soil. Continue reading
Jan 15 Watch Making Tracks The NASA rover Spirit rolled off its lander last night and began to explore the Martian soil. Jeffrey Brown asks Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles Elachi about its progress. Continue watching
Jan 14 Bush Unveils Plan to Return Humans to Moon and on to Mars By Admin President Bush announced plans Wednesday to develop a new spacecraft to send humans back to the moon as early as 2015 and use it as a launching point for manned missions to Mars and beyond. Continue reading
Jan 14 Watch President Bush Pledges to Return to the Moon President Bush announced plans Wednesday to develop a new spacecraft to send humans back to the moon as early as 2015 and use it as a launching point for manned missions to Mars and beyond. Two experts debate whether the… Continue watching