Say cheese! NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover takes a selfie with the 20ft-tall ‘Mont Mercou’ rock formation NASA’s Curiosity rover took the selfie after collecting its 30th sample Mont Mercou is a rock formation on Mars named after a mountain in France The selfie is composed of 60 images taken by Curiosity’s Hand Lens Imager on … Read more
Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars around 4 billion years ago, raising the possibility life once existed on the Red Planet. Researchers from Jackson State University, Cornell University and the University of Hawaii worked with NASA to examine sediment data captured by the Curiosity Rover. Dubbed a ‘raging megaflood’ by … Read more
NASA is asking people to ‘take a virtual tour of Mars’ using images taken of the Red Planet by its Curiosity Rover and help to label rocks and other surface features. The project, known as AI4Mars, is designed to improve an artificial intelligence algorithm that will help future Martian rovers move across the planet’s surface. … Read more
Scientists working from home due to coronavirus lockdown measures were able to operate the NASA Curiosity rover – which is 125 million miles away on Mars. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory team continue to explore red planet despite not being able to go into their California office or use high end workstations. Working on ordinary … Read more