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NASA Prepares its Science Fleet for Oct. 19 Mars Comet Encounter

By Dwayne Brown/ Guy Webster | NASA/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Oct 14, 2014   Featured, Science/Education  

NASA Prepares its Science Fleet for Oct. 19 Mars Comet Encounter

NASA’s extensive fleet of science assets, particularly those orbiting and roving Mars, have front row seats to image and study a once-in-a-lifetime comet flyby on Sunday, Oct. 19. Comet C/2013 A1, also known as comet Siding Spring, will pass within about 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of the Red Planet — less than half the distance […]

NASA's Curiosity Rover Provides Clues to Changes in Martian Atmosphere

By Dwayne Brown/ Guy Webster | NASA/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Nov 5, 2012   Science/Education  

NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere.



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