Mars

MIT alums recount their Martian experiencesSeveral AeroAstro alumni return to campus to describe landing the Curiosity rover on Mars.

NASA-JPL director Charles Elachi talks about latest Mars missionCuriosity is the most ambitious planetary rover mission ever, but it’s just one of the many exploratory projects JPL is undertaking.

Sarah Stewart Johnson, EAPS PhD, gives rein to curiosityAlumna envisions combining academia with public policy

Researchers calculate size of particles in Martian clouds of CO2 snowMars’ carbon dioxide ‘snowflakes’ are about the size of red blood cells.

3Q: The next Mars rover’s destinationMission is big step toward human exploration of Mars, according to MIT’s Maria Zuber.

Professor Young gives Portuguese students a glimpse into future Mars missionsMIT Professor and former astronaut Laurence R. Young recently traveled to Lisbon to describe possible future Mars missions to an overflow crowd at a Lisbon high school, on behalf of an MIT Portugal Program outreach project.

Solar system's biggest impact scar discoveredMIT scientists solve riddle of Mars' two-faced nature

The next-best thing to being on Mars

MIT, Harvard offer solution to Mars enigmaHow Mars could have been warm and wet but limestone-free

MIT to lead ambitious lunar missionTwin satellites will study the moon's gravitational pull

MIT observations give precise estimate of Mars surface ice

Mars group launches high-flying fundraiserSpace ship logos go ka-ching!

MIT researchers visit Mars on Earth

So cool: Study shows Mars in 4-billion-year freeze

MIT-NASA team to test first interplanetary laser communication link

Consider one-way Mars mission, Gavin says

It's time to rock and rove for MIT's Grotzinger

Space mission will explore effect of Mars' gravity on mammals