News From Mars
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Camera on NASA Mars Odyssey Tops Decade of Discovery
NASA's Mars Odyssey, the longest-working spacecraft ever sent to Mars, has now been sending home images for 10 years.
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Figueroa to Lead New Mars Program Planning Group
NASA' s associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, John Grunsfeld, has named former veteran NASA program manager Orlando Figueroa to lead a newly established Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG) tasked to reformulate the agency's Mars Exploration Program.
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Curiosity, The Stunt Double
Curiosity, the mini-Cooper-sized rover, is playing the role of stunt double for NASA astronauts, as it monitors radiation levels on its journey to Mars.
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Spacecraft Computer Issue Resolved
Engineers find the cause of a computer reset on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and determine how to correct it.
Mars Features
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The Mars Hoax Goes Viral
For the sixth year in a row, a message about the Red Planet is infecting worldwide email boxes.
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Testing the Parachute for Mars Science Laboratory
The parachute for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory passed flight-qualification testing in March and April 2009 inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Mars, Then and Now: Google Mars Update
NASA and Google announce an update to Mars in Google Earth, a 3D Mapping tool for the Red Planet.