We now have the ability to put remote control cameras on the surface of Mars.
While high profile activities continue on the surface of Mars, other research is digging a little deeper.
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The rover, after traveling for more than eight months, safely landed on the surface of Mars before 2 a.m.
And we had never landed - soft-landed an object on the surface of Mars, and there was no textbook.
As we speak, two remarkable robots are hard at work more than 30 million miles away on the surface of Mars.
When NASA's Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars earlier this week, we joined together to celebrate the six-wheeled science lab.
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And the measurements from Viking on the biology experiments did not suggest evidence of microbial life or any life on the surface of Mars.
It will fly for about 90 minutes before it runs out of fuel then it will make a graceful landing on the surface of Mars.
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Nasa's Curiosity rover has only been on the surface of Mars seven weeks but it has already turned up evidence of past flowing water on the planet.
Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, said the observations provided the strongest evidence to date that water still flowed occasionally on the surface of Mars.
Dr. LEVINE: Yes, the labeled-release experiment, the principal investigator was Gil Levin, and Gil to this day thinks that his experiment gave evidence of microbial life on the surface of mars.
NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz invited Vu Nguyen, the infrastructure engineer for the Curiosity project to discuss the big data behind the process of landing Curiosity safely on the surface of Mars.
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Now, using a camera onboard an orbiting probe called Mars Global Surveyor, scientists think they may have spotted something on the surface of Mars that is a good candidate for the remains of this NASA craft.
"If anybody has been harboring doubts about the status of U.S. leadership in space, well, there's a one-ton, automobile-size piece of American ingenuity, and it's sitting on the surface of Mars right now, " said White House science adviser John P.
It's supposed to go into orbit for a couple of years, taking these incredible close-up pictures, and you probably remember, Madeleine, that there's two little rovers that are still roving around on the surface of Mars, and they're still working great and sending back pictures.
That said, over the past decade, there has been an enormous amount of evidence that water once flowed freely on the ancient surface of Mars.
That could give scientists clues as to how, where and when the water flowed on the ancient surface of Mars.
Some have even suggested the loose rock regolith on the surface of the moon or Mars as a growing medium, although additional minerals would need to be brought from Earth.
If all goes as planned, seven minutes later the rover will be standing on its six wheels on the dry, dusty surface of Mars.
And in case you missed the latest robotic resident arriving on Mars you can watch the action replay and view the very first pictures beamed back from the surface of the Red Planet on Nasa's Mars Science Laboratory mission homepage.
Instead of sprinkling things on the surface, Viking had a shovel on an arm and brought samples of Mars' surface into a chamber.
The sand is very probably just the product of weathered basalt, the ubiquitous volcanic rock on Mars' surface.
Its first grainy, wide-angle images showed its own left rear wheel parked on the surface of Gale Crater near the equator of Mars, close to the foot of a three-mile-high mountain it aims to explore in months to come.
He has reported as the space vehicle Pathfinder arrived on Mars and beamed live video of the planet's surface back to earth.
When the Viking lander 1 landed on July 20, 1976, it sent back the first pictures from the surface of Mars.
On Sunday, the Mars Science Laboratory executed a series of maneuvers designed to slow its approach to the Mars surface.
This find is just one more piece of the puzzle about what Mars looked like hundreds of millions of years ago, when there was water on the surface.
In fact, when mission managers in the control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory first get word early Monday that the craft has reached the top of the Mars atmosphere, the vehicle will have been safe or smashed on the surface for at least seven minutes.
The exhibit also features a console that gives visitors the feeling of flying around Mars and zooming in on its surface features, as well as a Mars terraforming game that runs on a multi-touch table.
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