Home
All|
Business |
Technology |
Environment |
Health & Fitness |
Lifestyle |
Entertainment |
Travel |
Politics & Society |
Sports |
RSS
Opportunity and Spirit, have been gathering data since 2004 and
did a splendid job in exploring the Red Planet. However, a series of Martian dust storms, which have lasted for almost a month, are making their survival difficult.
These dust storms...
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
1
Stars 
(0)
NASA is attempting to deploy and operate its first solar-sail powered craft NanoSail-D, made of extremely lightweight gossamer fabric designed to glide into space. It...
made popular 17 hr. ago
Belief in aliens came to a new high when former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell claimed that aliens exist. The Apollo 14 mission veteran asserts that...
made popular 18 hr. ago
FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have...
made popular 23 hr. ago
AP,
The U.S. should revive and expand an aviation safety survey run by NASA to identify problems like lapses in inspections that canceled thousands of flights this past...
made popular Jul 24 2008
GPS system has inspired researchers to develop a similar tracking and mapping system for astronauts on the Moon. Moon’s terrain and landscape pose a number of...
made popular Jul 22 2008
THIRTY-NINE years to the day after Neil Armstrong radioed
made popular Jul 21 2008
AP, Washington
Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The...
made popular Jul 16 2008
There’s a new contender for the title of the Milky Way’s brightest star.
made popular Jul 16 2008
AP, Washington
The No. 1 need right now for some of the builders of the nation’s next spaceship: Lots of No. 1.
made popular Jul 15 2008
Signs of life on Mars may be hiding under its rocks, or perhaps hiding inside those rocks. A new study offers a simplified technique for detecting biological and...
made popular Jul 12 2008
Though the moon has many seas, scientists thought it was dry.
They were wrong.
made popular Jul 12 2008
NASA’s Space Shuttle will fly for one last time on May 31. After the Space Shuttle makes that final journey, Endeavour, Discovery and Atlantis retire four months...
made popular Jul 9 2008
Ever heard about land vehicles that travel at a supersonic speed? Well, there have been vehicles, which actually do. Brits achieved a record speed of 763mph and the...
made popular Jul 9 2008
AP, Houston
NASA has tentatively set the final space shuttle mission for May 31, 2010, four months before the shuttle fleet retires.
made popular Jul 8 2008
By the end of the year, the world’s greatest telescope should be able to see deeper into space and further back in time than ever. If all goes as planned, it will...
made popular Jul 7 2008
Before we completely bid adieu to our nation’s birthday, we here at Gizmodo would like to give one more shout-out to the fourth of July. Seems like even the stars...
made popular Jul 7 2008
Most media attention may be on Mars these days, but luckily for us (and the species as a whole) NASA is smarter than the average news network, and can actually look at...
made popular Jul 5 2008
After spending years terrorizing and baffling people, making some look crazy to everyone, and generating immense buzz, scientists are now satisfied with their mischief...
made popular Jul 4 2008
The Messenger space probe, which began its 5 billion mile journey to Mercury four years ago, has provided new evidence that the closest planet to the sun is contracting...
made popular Jul 4 2008
AP, Washington
When viewed from the rest of the galaxy, the edge of our solar system appears slightly dented as if a giant hand is pushing one edge of it inward, far-traveling NASA...
made popular Jul 2 2008
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
Storms on Mars have created all sorts of troubles for the twin rovers on the planet. These dust storms have obscured sunlight and have kept the twin rovers hungry for...
made popular Jul 11 2007
NASA has been trying all ways to find life or even traces of it on the red planet. NASA has tried to find clues of life on Mars with its twin rovers that are currently...
made popular Jul 10 2007
We told you a couple of days ago that a major dust storm has hit Mars. This dust storm is blocking the rays of the sun the only power source for the twin rovers on the...
made popular Jul 5 2007
Yesterday I told you that a massive dust storm has hit the red planet and both Opportunity and Spirit are in danger. The conditions are much worse for Opportunity since...
made popular Jun 29 2007
The red planet has once again shown its fierce side. The planet is now being covered with a dust storm that is thousands of miles in diameter.
This storm could hamper...
made popular Jun 28 2007
NASA’s Spirit rover has delivered the strongest evidence till date that ancient Mars was rich in water and its soil was much wetter than it is today.
A patch of...
made popular May 22 2007
NASA has created two virtual flyovers of the Mars rover landing sites.
The 3D imagery has been obtained from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. These images are a product of...
made popular Mar 14 2007
NASA’s Opportunity has provided more evidence that water once flowed through the red planet.
Opportunity has explored a vast sloping plain called Meridian Planum, and...
made popular Mar 8 2007
Till now NASA had to control most of the movements that were made by the two rovers on Mars.
Now the space agency has uploaded new software on both the rovers, that...
made popular Feb 23 2007
Until now NASA’s Mars rovers named Spirit and Opportunity relied on driver software that enabled them to move after scanning each and every movement initially.
Now...
made popular Jan 22 2007
The Viking Space that was sent to the red planet in 1976-77 may have found some forms of life on Mars and may have accidentally killed it as it was searching for some...
made popular Jan 8 2007
Here I have compiled some of the best pictures of our closest neighbor in space, Mars.
These images have been captured by the two rovers that is Spirit and Opportunity...
made popular Jan 6 2007
The first geologists on Mars, Yeh, right no humans of flesh and bone, but robot automatons of metal and wheels and now nearing the third anniversary of their landings...
made popular Dec 29 2006
A machine from Earth is now lost in nothingness a billion kilometers away. It kept on transmitting data far longer than anyone expected. Mars Global Surveyor finished...
made popular Nov 22 2006
Life left its mark in the Martian rock layers. It may have had a tough time getting started in the ancient environment, examined by NASA’s Opportunity rover. The...
made popular Nov 30 2005
This was for the first time that the women were given the opportunity to vote in Saudi Arabia.
However, officials expressed their disappointment over the low vote...
made popular Nov 28 2005
It is mostly a common belief among the non- Muslims that Islam differentiates in gender equality. But what is mostly overlooked is that Islam offer equal opportunity to...
made popular Nov 22 2005
Related Tags
dust storms Endurance Crater equality Judge judiciary mars Martian Life Martian rock Meridiani Planum NASA NASA Rover paliament Politics & Society Rover Rovers sand dunes sedimentary rock spirit Technology Women 