mars

NASA has finally conceded that the Opportunity rover on Mars is a lost cause. Contact was lost last summer when a massive Martian dust storm forced Oppy, as it is affectionately known, to shut down. Opportunity was solar powered so the dust basically prevented it from generating enough energy to...

NASA's new Mars probe, Insight (believe it or not, the twits at NASA made that into an irritatingly complex acronym which I refuse to spell out), touches down tomorrow. This is a stationary probe, not a rover, and it is going to be prying beneath the Martian surface using probes and...