The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite has completed assembly at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and is nearly ready for a December delivery to NASA's Jet ...

A public launch viewing of NASA’s latest mission to Mars, carrying a Maryland instrument, will be held at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md. on November 25, 2011.

The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite has completed assembly at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and is nearly ready for a December delivery to NASA's Jet ...

The next wheels on the red planet will belong to the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) – a huge step in how that planet is further poked, probed, and more fully plumbed for new information.

All samples obtained during AMASE 2009 expedition have been analyzed with CheMin, another state of the art instrument that will fly aboard NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission.

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which is scheduled to launch this week, has the potential to be the most productive Mars surface mission in history. That's due in part to its nuclear heat ...

The Mars Science Laboratory mission, a jumbo rover originally slated to launch for the red planet next year, has been delayed until 2011, NASA announced Thursday. "We will not be ready to launch ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Digging Mars: Mars Science Lab Set to Blast Off ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 305 No. 5 (November 2011) doi:10.1038 ...

Finding potential evidence of life on Mars may be more difficult than expected, according to new research. Researchers tested scientific instruments used on Mars in Chile’s Atacama Desert, and ...

Now, scientists at NASA Johnson Space Center's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division think they have the answer. They may have figured out how Mars could have formed its ...

The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite has completed assembly at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and is nearly ready for a December delivery to NASA’s … ...