News From Mars
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Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth
Asteroid 1998 QE2 will get no closer than about 3.6 million miles at time of closest approach on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. Pacific (4:59 p.m. Eastern).
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NASA Wins Prestigious Aerospace Industry Awards
Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards.
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NASA Probe Counts Space Rock Impacts on Mars
Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across.
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NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on Mars
The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming days.
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.