The discovery of a collection of strange spherical objects on Mars has caused a stir over at NASA. Despite all the fuss made over the Curiosity rover in recent months, the discovery has actually come from earlier rover Opportunity. The strange spheres resemble earlier objects –...
Curiosity from above
posted by Andi Hamilton
This image blew me away… This was taken from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter where you can clearly see the progress that the Curiosity Rover has...
Curiosity’s Martian Landscape Shot
posted by Chris McQuillan
NASA’s rover Curiosity has sent back a stunning image from the surface of Mars, shot from the rover’s 100mm camera. The image shows Mount Sharp, near Curiosity’s landing site. Quite beautiful, wouldn’t you say?
Curiosity Rover Repo...
posted by Andi Hamilton
NASA have released a video to update us earthlings as to what the Curiosity Rover has been up yo on Mars this week, check out the video below for full details;
Curiosity Descent in...
posted by Chris McQuillan
A high-definition video, created from picture stills as Curiosity made its descent towards Mars, has been released on YouTube. As one of the top commenters stated, for some reason, you expect there to be sound! Even without it, it’s quite a...
Curiosity fired its ...
posted by Andi Hamilton
The BBC reported late last night that the Curiosity rover has successfully fired it’s lazer beam as a test to see if the instrument was working. It’s target was a small stone roughly 2 meters away from the rover pictured below: The BBC has outlined what happened ChemCam zapped it...
We’re NASA and...
posted by Andi Hamilton
Found this video on the internet this morning, if any of you are looking for a bit of a laugh check out the video below.
High Resolution Phot...
posted by Andi Hamilton
Wow, just wow! This is an amzing picture of Curiosity’s wheel on the surface of Mars, this is an incredible image of the martian ground and as time goes on more amazing things shall be discovered about the red planet. Dare Mighty...
New Video and Images...
posted by Andi Hamilton
I have been following the Mars rover Curiosity since launch last year, I watched the successful landing yesterday and now I am in amazement of some of the images and video that has been sent back to earth here from the rover. They have been included in a gallery...
Clip of the week ...
posted by Andi Hamilton
Mars has been a popular topic this past week, so I thought an appropriate clip of the week would be the soundtrack to War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne. It is embedded below, get listening! The chances of anything coming from Mars Are a million to one, he said (ahh, ahh) The chances of...
Curiosity Has Landed
posted by Andi Hamilton
Congratulations to NASA and the entire team behind the Curiosity Rover trip to Mars. At 05.32 GMT, Curiosity successfully landed on the surface of Mars. Â I was watching it live on NASA TV and loved the reaction from the team when they heard the news. The image below sums up the reaction...
Curiosity Landing In...
posted by Chris McQuillan
NASA have released an interactive simulation of the Curiosity descent and landing online, for those of you scientifically minded. You control the camera and speed of time of the landing, as the rover touches down on the Red Planet. It’s well worth a play about with.  If you get...
