http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, should be running at full capacity next week, after a memory glitch set the robot back. http://phys.org/news281729210.html Space & Earth Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:06:57 EST news281729210 (Phys.org) —NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary "safe mode" to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week. Resumption of full operations is anticipated by next week. http://phys.org/news281680580.html Space & Earth Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:36:30 EST news281680580 (Phys.org)—NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is the first time any robot has drilled into a rock to collect a sample on Mars. http://phys.org/news279657499.html Space & Earth Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:38:28 EST news279657499 (Phys.org)—Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the French Space Agency have tracked a trail of minerals that point to the prior presence of water at the Curiosity rover site on Mars. http://phys.org/news277552323.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:52:09 EST news277552323 (Phys.org)—After imaging during the holidays, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed driving Jan. 3 and pulled within arm's reach of a sinuous rock feature called "Snake River." http://phys.org/news276767617.html Space & Earth Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:53:59 EST news276767617 (Phys.org)—On the 84th and 85th Martian days of the NASA Mars rover Curiosity's mission on Mars (Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2012), NASA's Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture dozens of high-resolution images to be combined into self-portrait images of the rover. http://phys.org/news275846679.html Space & Earth Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:20:01 EST news275846679 NASA and the mobile application Foursquare have teamed up to help the public unlock its scientific curiosity with a new rover-themed Curiosity Explorer badge. http://phys.org/news275846751.html Space & Earth Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:05:58 EST news275846751 (Phys.org)—The NASA Mars rover Curiosity drove 63 feet (19 meters) northeastward early Monday, Dec. 10, approaching a step down into a slightly lower area called "Yellowknife Bay," where researchers intend to choose a rock to drill. http://phys.org/news274524556.html Space & Earth Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:49:26 EST news274524556 Relax everyone. There are no little green men or even a hint of organics on Mars… not yet, anyway. http://phys.org/news273488810.html Space & Earth Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:07:00 EST news273488810 (Phys.org)—NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed a touch-and-go inspection of one rock on Sunday, Nov. 18, then pivoted and, on the same day, drove toward a Thanksgiving overlook location. http://phys.org/news272710339.html Space & Earth Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:52:28 EST news272710339 The Mars Science Laboratory team has hinted that they might have some big news to share soon. But like good scientists, they are waiting until they verify their results before saying anything definitive. In an interview on NPR today, MSL Principal Investigator John Grotzinger said a recent soil sample test in the SAM instrument (Sample Analysis at Mars) shows something 'earthshaking.' http://phys.org/news272708413.html Space & Earth Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:20:31 EST news272708413 (Phys.org)—NASA's Curiosity rover is in a position on Mars where scientists and engineers can begin preparing the rover to take its first scoop of soil for analysis. http://phys.org/news268584398.html Space & Earth Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:46:48 EST news268584398 (Phys.org)—NASA's Curiosity rover took its first test stroll Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012, and beamed back pictures of its accomplishment in the form of track marks in the Martian soil. Careful inspection of the tracks reveals a unique, repeating pattern, which the rover can use as a visual reference to drive more accurately in barren terrain. The pattern is Morse code for JPL, the abbreviation for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where the rover was designed and built, and the mission is managed. http://phys.org/news265481524.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:52:35 EST news265481524 (Phys.org)—NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter mile (400 meters) away, where it may begin using its drill. http://phys.org/news265481403.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:50:34 EST news265481403 The photo-snapping rover Curiosity returned another postcard from Mars on Thursday — the first 360-degree color panorama of Gale Crater. http://phys.org/news263744356.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:19:23 EST news263744356 (Phys.org) -- Earlier today, just hours after NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars, a select group of images taken by the onboard Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, were beamed back to Earth. The 297 color, low-resolution images, provide a glimpse of the rover's descent into Gale Crater. They are a preview of the approximately 1,504 images of descent currently held in the rover's onboard memory. When put together in highest resolution, the resulting video is expected to depict the rover's descent from the moment the entry system's heat shield is released through touchdown. http://phys.org/news263529630.html Space & Earth Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:40:47 EST news263529630 Take a look around Curiosity’s cozy cabin! Ok, there’s really not much to see (she didn’t get a window seat) but when the image above was taken by the rover’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on April 20, the spacecraft she’s tucked into was just over 120 million km (74 million miles) from Earth, en route to Mars. In other words, just past those blurry components and outside that dark shell is real outer space… that’s cool! http://phys.org/news255689109.html Space & Earth Tue, 08 May 2012 09:46:23 EST news255689109 The world's biggest extraterrestrial explorer, NASA's Curiosity rover, rocketed toward Mars on Saturday on a search for evidence that the red planet might once have been home to itsy-bitsy life. http://phys.org/news241524964.html Space & Earth Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:16:42 EST news241524964 NASA is deciding between two places on Mars to send its next rover. http://phys.org/news229229495.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:51:49 EST news229229495 (PhysOrg.com) -- The NASA rover to be launched to Mars this year will carry the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument already on the vehicle, providing the capability to meet the mission's science goals. http://phys.org/news220524456.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:48:28 EST news220524456 (PhysOrg.com) -- A space-simulation chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is temporary home this month for the Curiosity rover, which will land on Mars next year. http://phys.org/news219926845.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:47:51 EST news219926845 NASA's next-generation rover mission to the surface of Mars needs more money - again. http://phys.org/news215794410.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:53:55 EST news215794410 More than one million people have watched assembly and testing of NASA's next Mars rover via a live webcam since it went online in October. http://phys.org/news210421122.html Space & Earth Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:19:43 EST news210421122 (PhysOrg.com) -- A newly installed webcam is giving the public an opportunity to watch technicians assemble and test the next NASA Mars rover, one of the most technologically challenging interplanetary missions ever designed. http://phys.org/news206894208.html Space & Earth Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:37:20 EST news206894208 (PhysOrg.com) -- Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover that will be on Mars two years from now, has been flexing the robotic arm that spacecraft workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory attached to the rover body in August 2010. http://phys.org/news202987118.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:18:58 EST news202987118 (PhysOrg.com) -- In one week, Curiosity grew by approximately 1 meter (3.5 feet) when spacecraft technicians and engineers attached the rover's neck and head (called the Remote Sensing Mast) to its body. http://phys.org/news199370420.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:10:04 EST news199370420 (PhysOrg.com) -- Like proud parents, mission team members gathered in a gallery above a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to watch the Mars Curiosity rover roll for the first time. http://phys.org/news199368582.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:40:01 EST news199368582 (PhysOrg.com) -- The wheels that will touch down on Mars in 2012 are several rotations closer to spinning on the rocky trails of Mars. http://phys.org/news198253096.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:30:02 EST news198253096