NASA - Moon and Mars

There's a problem with your browser or settings.

Your browser or your browser's settings are not supported. To get the best experience possible, please download a compatible browser. If you know your browser is up to date, you should check to ensure that javascript is enabled.

› Learn How

Follow this link to skip to the main content

NASA Home
| News & Features
| News Topics
| Moon & Mars
- Bookmark
- Send

Mars Missions

Victoria Crater, seen by Opportunity rover
> Phoenix
> Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
> Spirit and Opportunity
> Odyssey
> More Mars Missions

Exploration History

This Month in Exploration

Visit every month to find out how aviation and space exploration have improved life for humans on Earth and in space.

›Read More

Related Site

Exploration Systems Mission Directorate

To develop a sustained human presence on the moon; to promote exploration, commerce, and U.S. preeminence in space; and to serve as a stepping stone for the future exploration of Mars and other destinations.

›View Site

Latest Features

NASA at 50:

NASA Flight Research Center's LLRV work led to development of the Apollo Lunar Landers.
Exhaling for Exploration: Scientists Test Lunar Breathing System

Imagine yourself hip-to-hip, shoulder-to-shoulder, inside a room the size of a walk-in closet for eight hours with five people you just met. Does that make you sweat? Or maybe make your breathing a little more animated?
Send Your Name to the Moon Aboard LRO!

NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Magnetic Field of Earth Causes Strange Happenings on Moon

NASA-supported scientists have realized that strange things can happen on the moon when it gets a lashing from Earth's magnetic tail once a month.
Orion Launch Abort System Jettison Motor Test

NASA successfully tested the Launch Abort System jettison motor, the first full-scale test for the Constellation Program's Orion crew exploration vehicle.
› Read More
› View Test Video (.mov) →

View Archives

Latest Press Releases

NASA Phoenix Mission Ready for Mars Landing

05.13.08 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is preparing to end its long journey and begin a three-month mission to taste and sniff fistfuls of Martian soil and buried ice. The lander is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet May 25.
New Water Reclamation System Headed for Duty on Space Station

05.12.08 - International Space Station crews soon will have a new water reclamation system that will recycle wastewater, allowing up to six crew members to live aboard the orbiting laboratory.
NASA Successfully Completes First Series of Ares Engine Tests

05.08.08 - The J-2X engine will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V rockets.

View Archives

Media Resources

Gilbrech to Hold Media Briefing at National Space Symposium

03.3108 - The briefing will be at 1:15 p.m. MDT on April 8 in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Enhanced Radar Imagery of Lunar South Pole

02.27.08 - How do you survive where there's no water or wind and sometimes no sunlight for weeks? The answer could be a fuel cell that works in reverse.