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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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Curiosity is snapping spectacular self portraits on the surface of Mars.
The left eye of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took this image of the camera on the rover's arm, the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) in this space wallpaper.
New Mars photos show the Curiosity rover's tracks and parachute from space.
See amazing photos of Mars from NASA's Curiosity rover from its first month on the Red Planet.
After one month on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is shifting into Martian science gear.
The Mars rover Curiosity is going strong on the Red Planet.
MSL Flight Director Bobak "Mohawk Guy" Ferdowsi recaps Curiosity's week of messages from Mars and shows off the morse code of 'JPL' he shaved on the side of his head, just like the code left behind by the Curiosity rover's tire tracks.
Part of Curiosity's Martian mission is to determine if methane is still being created on Mars. It might be tectonic activity deep underground, but it's also possible that something living beneath the martian surface could be creating the gas.
Tracks from the six-wheeled robot's historic first test drive on Mars.
Mission controller-turned-celebrity Bobak Ferdowsi will host a program on internet radio.
The president talked space in a surprise Reddit chat Wednesday (Aug. 29).
Curiosity will be on the move for a while.
NASA and will.i.am aimed to inspire students with the first broadcast of a song from Mars.
The photo was taken to help calibrate Curiosity's 34-millimeter Mast Camera.
The first song ever beamed to Earth from space was the will.i.am. tune "Reach for the Stars."
The image shows the base of Mount Sharp, Curiosity's eventual science destination.
More than 100 images were taken to help compile this mosaic.
The voice of NASA chief Charles Bolden is the first human sound ever to be broadcast from Mars.
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