Curosity Rover

The local atmosphere in Mars is clear in winter, dustier in spring and summer, and windy in autumn, show measurements by NASA's Curiosity rover that has completed recording environmental patterns through two full cycles of Martian seasons.

For the first time, NASA's rover Curiosity used its on-board drill to collect a sample of Martian bedrock that might offer evidence of a long-gone wet environment, the U.S. space agency reported on Saturday.

NASA's robotic rover Curiosity is making its mark on Mars, in a way so big that it can be seen from space.

NASA's Curiosity rover has beamed back its first colour photo from the ancient crater where it landed on Mars and a video showing the last two and a half minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Martian atmosphere, a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world.

The most high-tech rover NASA has ever designed was speeding towards Mars on Sunday to attempt an acrobatic landing on the planet's surface. With Curiosity on autopilot, engineers became spectators, anxiously waiting to see if Curiosity executes the routine as planned.

Seven minutes of terror - It sounds like a Hollywood thriller, but the phrase describes the anxiety NASA is expecting as its car-sized robotic rover tries a tricky landing on Mars late Sunday.

The local atmosphere in Mars is clear in winter, dustier in spring and summer, and windy in autumn, show measurements by NASA's Curiosity rover that has completed recording environmental patterns through two full cycles of Martian seasons.

For the first time, NASA's rover Curiosity used its on-board drill to collect a sample of Martian bedrock that might offer evidence of a long-gone wet environment, the U.S. space agency reported on Saturday.

NASA's robotic rover Curiosity is making its mark on Mars, in a way so big that it can be seen from space.

NASA's Curiosity rover has beamed back its first colour photo from the ancient crater where it landed on Mars and a video showing the last two and a half minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Martian atmosphere, a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world.

The most high-tech rover NASA has ever designed was speeding towards Mars on Sunday to attempt an acrobatic landing on the planet's surface. With Curiosity on autopilot, engineers became spectators, anxiously waiting to see if Curiosity executes the routine as planned.

Seven minutes of terror - It sounds like a Hollywood thriller, but the phrase describes the anxiety NASA is expecting as its car-sized robotic rover tries a tricky landing on Mars late Sunday.