NASA Says - 'Send Your Name to Mars'

NASA currently has a webpage where you can fill in your name and zip code, and this information will be written on a microchip going to Mars with the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory.

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Scientists also don't know how large the object was, but the impact scar it created is about the same size as Earth, JPL astronomer Leigh Fletcher told the magazine.

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Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.

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The plucky Mars rover Spirit has a whole team of NASA engineers on Earth trying to find an escape route out of the Martian sand dune that has snared the robot for weeks, and now it has a Web site.

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Rays of light from the sun have taken many different paths to compose this glorious image of Saturn and its rings.

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PASADENA, Calif. -- The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground.

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A great article about the problems with the Mars Science Laboratory. One thing that they missed is that the mission was originally supposed to cost $650 million dollars and the financial problems are even worse than reported.

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Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year. In comparison, our own Milky Way galaxy turns out an average of just 10 stars per year.

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MOSES LAKE SAND DUNES, Grant County — This patch of desert may resemble the moon, but a team of NASA scientists who came here to test lunar robots, rovers and spacesuits found spring weather in Eastern Washington can be worse than outer space.

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Orbiting Spacecraft Snaps Photo Of Phoenix During Descent To Martian Surface

JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, CA - Scientists began the task of mapping out the terrain where NASA's Phoenix lander touched down the day before as they geared up for the beginning of science operations that should get underway in the next week or so.

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Phoenix Dazzles Scientists With Mars Arctic Landing

"Parachute deployment trigger detected," said Kornfeld. "Heat shield trigger detected. Ground relative velocity 90 meters per second...

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NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander can be seen parachuting down to Mars, in this image captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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Phoenix is in its final hours of spaceflight before landing on Mars. The estimated time for landing is 7:53 pm eastern daylight time.

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Heading To Mars, Phoenix Prepares For "7 Minutes of Terror"

JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, CA - Sunday evening, NASA will attempt something that hasn't been accomplished successfully in 32 years. Not since the Viking probes landed on Mars has a spacecraft succeeded in making a powered, controlled descent to the red planet's surface.

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With NASA's Phoenix lander arriving at the red planet in 2008, here's a look at the best — and worst — Mars landings of all time.

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A new online map lets visitors explore Mars' past through a collection of high-resolution observations from one of the most powerful spectrometers ever sent to the Red Planet.

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A story about JPL trying to get the Mars Science Laboratory ready for its launch in 2009 despite their massive overruns in costs and delays in schedule.

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WOW, I encourage everyone to read this article. It seems that the cameras on NASA Mars Recon Orbiter has found an actual lake shore scene in a crater on Mars. Really interesting read and incredible picture.

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Carl Raggio still remembers how tense he felt exactly 50 years ago, on the night America entered the Space Age.

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The True Colors of Mars: NASA Pictures Mars as a Red-Orange Planet.

The authors of a new book, Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA, present a multi-faceted argument that the scientific mission we thought had guided the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been subverted by a military mission and a political mission under  …

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Since our last update, we have received numerous tracking measurements of asteroid 2007 WD5 from four different observatories. These new data have led to a significant reduction in the position uncertainties during the asteroid's close approach to Mars on Jan. 30, 2008.

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A good overview article from Space.com that describes a few details about what may happen when/if asteroid 2007 WD5 smacks Mars.

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2007 VK184 has been picked up by astronomers, including those at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Near-Earth Objects Program. Currently 90 million kilometers from Earth, 130 meters across and traveling at 70,000 km/h, it could impact the planet sometime in 2048.

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NASA's sharpest-eyed orbiter at Mars has spotted the Spirit rover far below, sitting on an enigmatic rock formation nicknamed "Home Plate."

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Newly assembled radar images from the Cassini spacecraft are giving researchers their best-ever view of hydrocarbon lakes and seas on the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, while a new radar image reveals that Titan's south pole also has lakes.

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