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A new batch of conspiracy theories come after new Curiosity rover pictures feature images mirroring an iguana and a crashed spaceship.
UFO enthusiasts and researchers are making claims over the possibility of life on Mars after a picture of the Martian landscape by the Mars Curiosity Rover showed what looked like an ancient coffin.
The Mars Curiosity Rover is still on the lookout for some signs of extraterrestrial life, and a cat statue found among the Martian landscape may just be the proof that scientists need.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is conducting a feasibility study on sending snake robots to space. Using the legless reptile as a physical model, the researchers at the SINTEF Research Institute in Norway and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology are plotting a way to utilize robotic versions of the beast to explore the various nooks and crannies of Mars.
This has been a big week for Mars news, with some great (and not so great) videos coming out, made from the images provided by NASA's Curiosity rover. The news this week ranges from the groundbreaking to the unwelcome to the ridiculous. Let's start with the groundbreaking: Mars definitely once had water flowing over its surface.
A combination of solar energetic particles and galactic cosmic rays bombard space-faring craft persistently, and a recent study published in the journal Science indicates that this danger presents a number of obstacles for research based on the Red Planet: Mars.
Curiosity, the robotic, roving probe sent to the Red Planet by the national Aeronautics and Space Administration, has discovered traces of argon gas in the thin Martian air, seeming to support the longstanding belief the current atmosphere there is just a remnant of what it once was.
Mars's Curiosity rover, as well as the Opportunity, Odyssey, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. are all taking a little break. This is due to an alignment of the orbits of Earth and Mars that only occurs once every 26 months, a phenomenon that makes communication between the two planets very difficult.
Curiosity, the roving probe sent to search for signs of life on Mars, has been sending many more signals from the Red Planet than originally planned. The giant parachute used to slow Curiosity during its descent to the surface of Mars back on August 6, 2012, is flapping away in the Martian breeze.
After receiving a brutal does of radiation from the sun, Mars Curiosity Rover has been temporarily powered off. NASA said on Wednesday that the shutdown is only temporary and Curiosity will resume its $2.5 million mission as soon as possible.
Researchers at NASA say the Mars Curiosity rover has successfully placed Martian space rocks into its internal lab for analysis to search for clues of water.
The Mars Curiosity rover has drilled into the bedrock of the Red Planet and has made history as the first robot to penetrate beyond the planet's surface, according to a NASA announcement.
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is now headed towards a region of Gale crater known as Yellowknife Bay, allegedly the home of calcium sulfate which may have been scarred by water flow in the past
Since its launch, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been capturing a lot of interest around the world.
Researchers have to map out the Curiosity rover's driving route a day in advance.
