September 2010 Top Stories

»» New NASA HD App for iPad With Expanded Content Available Free

[Thursday, September 2, 2010] NASA has unveiled NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad. The application is available free of charge at the App Store from Apple.

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»» Mars Phoenix Findings Help Explain Viking Lander Results

[Friday, September 3, 2010] Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.

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»» NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Studies Interesting Rocks

[Saturday, September 4, 2010] Opportunity finished her campaign to examine an exposed outcrop of rock that was of interest to the science team.

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»» Phoenix Lander Findings Suggest More Recent Liquid Water on Mars

[Thursday, September 9, 2010] Data from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest liquid water has interacted with the Martian surface throughout the planet's history and into modern times.

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»» Martian Moon Phobos May Have Been Formed by Catastrophic Blast

[Tuesday, September 21, 2010] Scientists now have firm indications that the Martian satellite Phobos formed relatively near its current location via re-accretion of material blasted into Mars's orbit by some catastrophic event.

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»» First Results from Herschel Mars Observations

[Tuesday, September 21, 2010] An accurate globally-averaged temperature profile of the Martian atmosphere may cause scientists to revise their models about atmospheric circulation on Mars.

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»» Opportunity Checks Out Another Possible Meteorite on Mars

[Thursday, September 23, 2010] The rover's science team has decided to go get a closer look at the toaster-sized rock and determine whether it is an iron meteorite.

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