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Latest News About Mars Science Laboratory, NASA's Newest Mars Rover
The Mars rover Curiosity, also known as the Science Laboratory, will launch in late 2011 and land on the Red Planet in August 2012.
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The bright object Curiosity spotted while scooping soil over the weekend is a piece of itself, scientists say.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has its first scoopful of Mars, and made an intriguing find.
This video clip shows the first Martian material collected by the scoop on the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Curiosity rover, being vibrated inside the scoop after it was lifted from the ground on Oct. 7, 2012.
Rover scientist Dave Blake talks about how the Curiosity Rover’s CheMin instrument works.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is beaming home amazing photos of the Red Planet.
The Mars Science Laboratory is equipped with a special robotic scoop for collecting samples of the martian soil for analysis. In this video, you can see the slow and steady tool being tested at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is poised to begin scooping up Red Planet samples.
Curiosity has the Mayor of Mars title pretty much sewn up.
The president's John Hancock is etched on a plaque affixed to the Mars rover Curiosity's deck.
David Grinspoon plans to use the Curiosity rover's most "RAD" instrument.
Daytime temperatures have climbed above freezing during more than half of Curiosity's days on Mars.
Alluvial fans (river exits) are present in California, just as they are on the Red Planet. Curiosity Rover is nearing one the first target sites in the Gale crater to study where water once flowed on ancient Mars.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered dried-up signs of an ancient stream on the Martian surface.
Once upon a long time ago, streams of water flowed across the landscape of Gale Crater. NASA Senior Planetary Scientist Rebecca Williams explains how sediments were moved and deposited, forming a rock outcrop seen by Curiosity today.
Just as suspected, Gale Crater – landing site of the Mars Science Lab – was the site of fast-flowing water in the planet's distant past. Curisoity's cameras are examining a rock outcrop that is a sure sign of stream-bed.
NASA's Curiosity rover has found proof that water once flowed on the surface at its Gale Crater landing site.
The Mars rover Curiosity news conference webcast begins at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT)
Curiosity took a break from Martian rocks to observe Mars biggest moon in the sky.
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