The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera is rocketing toward Mars, and it’s no leisure cruise for the camera operations team at The University of Arizona campus in Tucson either.

Martian winds can have quite an impact. ESA's Mars Express has spotted them whipping up sand grains and acting as a cosmic sandblaster, carving out intriguing grooves near Mars's equator. The ridges, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a long way from Tempe to Jupiter, but a thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way. First though, it made ...

The Curiosity rover is at the time of writing the oldest operational piece of technology on the surface of Mars. Having left Earth in 2011 with the goal of seeing whether the Red Planet is habitable, ...

Three years ago, on 14 March 2016, the Bernese Mars camera CaSSIS started its journey to Mars with the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft. The camera system developed at the University of Bern has ...

The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged particles from a solar storm," according to NASA. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL ...

All systems are go as the preliminary batch of pictures arrived from the Red Planet on Friday and Saturday. The UA-operated High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera transmitted four test ...

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover managed to capture fascinating images of charged particles from a solar storm that hit the planet back in May. The recently shared images show white specks entering the ...

If all goes as planned Friday, the University of Arizona's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) will begin doing for Mars a little of what Google Earth has done for the home planet.