Engineers say NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover is on track and in good health as it races toward the red planet for a dramatic seven-minute plunge to the surface to kick off a $2.5 billion ...

NASA has released a video of its Curiosity rover in the final few minutes of its descent to Mars, adding to the remarkable barrage of photos and videos that have been released less than 24 hours ...

(CBS News) Since landing on the surface of Mars on August 6, NASA's Curiosity rover has undergone a battery of tests and even taken its first drive on the Red Planet. But, for now at least, the ...

Engineers are fine-tuning software and procedures to prepare for the entry, descent, and landing of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Lab rover in early August.

B arreling in from space at 13,000 mph before stopping a mere 25 feet above the ground would make anyone want to catch their breath, and NASA’s Curiosity rover is no exception. Now that the ...

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity rover, is scheduled to land on the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012. Here's how the rover will touch down on the planet's surface.

The Curiosity rover's landing video was taken by the Mars Descent Imager camera, or MARDI, which snapped hundreds of photos while the six-wheeled robot was barreling through the Martian atmosphere ...

This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the blast zone created by the Curiosity rover's sky crane descent stage as it appeared in August 2012, just after Curiosity touched down.

More Curiosity Coverage First Images from Curiosity Rover on Mars MRO Captures Amazing Image of Rover’s Descent Lasers, Cameras and Particle Detectors: Rover’s Super High-Tech Science Gear ...

Well, that was fast! The MARDI - MARs Descent Imager - was designed to take images as the Curiosity rover dropped down to the surface of Mars. Those thumbnail images have been put together into a ...

Now that the “Seven Minutes of Terror” is over, the compact-car-sized biochemistry lab is spending its first two weeks doing the same thing you might do after stepping off a hair-raising ...