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WHAT'S NEW What's New | Newsroom View By Year:    2007    2008    2009 View By News Type:    Press Releases    Spotlights    All 11.17.09 NASA and Microsoft Allow Earthlings to Become Martians Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars. Press Release 07.10.2009 Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Heat Shield Readied for Next Mars Rover Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, has finished building and testing the heat shield for protecting the Curiosity rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project. This heat shield is even larger than the ones used for protecting Apollo astronauts as they returned to Earth. Press Release 05.27.2009 Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA Selects Student's Entry as New Mars Rover Name NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma from the Sunflower Elementary school in Lenexa submitted the winning entry, "Curiosity." Press Release 05.07.2009 Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA Releases Interactive 3-D Views of Space Station, New Mars Rover NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover on Thursday, May 7. View the Photosynth Panorama Rovers in the JPL Mars Yard Press Release 03.19.2009 Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Online Poll For NASA's Mars Rover Naming Contest Opens March 23 NASA will post online nine names that are finalists for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory mission and invite the public to vote for its favorite. Press Release 01.16.2009 Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Deadline Nears For Student Contest to Name NASA's Next Mars Rover NASA is issuing a last call to the nation's youth for entries in a contest to name the agency's next Mars rover.