Mars
News items about Mars and its moons
Background information about Mars
A gallery of Spirit's images and slideshow
A gallery of Opportunity's images and slideshow
Mars Express orbiter
Mar 4, 2011
"[The] ESA's Mars Express has returned new images of an elongated impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
Mar 3, 2011
"Last week the Mars Exploration Rover team dumped another 90 sols' worth of data from Mars into NASA's Planetary Data System, the national repository for space mission data."
Mar 3, 2011
"A crew of mock Mars explorers is leaving their virtual Red Planet behind."
Mar 2, 2011
The HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images a remarkable double crater on Mars
Mar 1, 2011
"Efforts to Recover Spirit Expand as Opportunity Wraps Up Work at Santa Maria"
Feb 18, 2011
"The flow of data from Mars has resumed. Mars passed through solar conjunction on February 4, meaning that all of the active spacecraft spent at least a couple of weeks in a period of very low activity."
Feb 14, 2011
"Three crewmembers of the virtual flight to Mars have 'landed' on their destination planet and two of them today took their first steps on the simulated martian terrain."
Feb 12, 2011
"Six 'astronauts' test human endurance in outer space. Crew will explore imitation planet surface in spacesuits."
Feb 11, 2011
"Thanks to the work of several amateurs, Google Mars is a great tool for following the past and future peregrinations of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity."
Feb 4, 2011
"A 520-day mock mission to Mars has reached a major milestone, "arriving" at Mars after 244 days of virtual interplanetary flight."
