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NASA probe sends first pictures from Martian arctic
Washington (AFP) May 26, 2008A NASA probe sent back never-seen pictures of Mars' north pole Monday after a near perfect landing in the most ambitious mission to date to find life-sustaining minerals on the Red Planet. Pictures from the Phoenix probe provided the first glimpse of the planet's Arctic plains -- a desolate, flat landscape of stony, frozen ground. The images also confirmed that the solar arrays needed ... more Lockheed Martin-Built Phoenix Spacecraft Successfully Lands on Mars 
Denver CO (SPX) May 27, 2008NASA has a new spacecraft operating on the surface of Mars. Late Sunday afternoon, the Phoenix Mars Lander, built by Lockheed Martin, navigated a dramatic blazing descent through the planet's atmosphere, positioning Phoenix to dig down and touch the planet's subsurface ice. At 4:24 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time May 25, onboard software commands fired six separation nuts and jettisoned the cru ... more Mars Cold Goes Down Deep 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 27, 2008New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought. The findings suggest any liquid water that might exist below the planet's surface and any possible organisms living in that water, would be located deeper than scientists had suspected. "We found that the rocky surface of Mars is no ... more The Radar SHARAD Completes The Mars Stratigraphy
Rome, Italy (SPX) May 26, 2008The radar sounder SHARAD of the NASA mission Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images of the Mars North Pole stratigraphy. This is the beginning of the article "Mars North Polar Deposits: Stratigraphy, Age and Geodynamical Response", published Friday on Science and prepared by a team of Italian and USA scientists, among which the radar scientific responsible, Dr. Roberto Seu, a scie ... more Phoenix Lands On Mars For First Polar Mission 
Washington (AFP) May 25, 2008An ambitious effort to determine whether Mars' arctic region was ever habitable for microbial forms of life got underway Sunday when NASA landed the Phoenix probe near the Red Planet's north pole. After a nine-month journey from Earth, Phoenix managed an almost perfect landing in a relatively rock-free, flat target area, said Barry Goldstein, Phoenix project manager at the mission's control ... more |
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Tempe AZ (SPX) May 23, 2008Deposits of nearly pure silica discovered by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in Gusev Crater formed when volcanic steam or hot water (or maybe both) percolated through the ground. Such deposits are found around hydrothermal vents like those in Yellowstone National Park. That's the conclusion of planetary scientists working with data collected by the rover's Miniature Thermal Emission Spe ... more Phoenix Mission To Mars Will Search For Climate Clues 
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 25, 2008On May 25, 2008, approaching 5 p.m. PDT, NASA scientists will be wondering: Just how green is their valley? That's because at that time the Phoenix Mars Mission space vehicle will be touching down on its three legs to make a soft landing onto the northern Mars terrain called Green Valley. Of course, no valley is actually green on the Red Planet. The place got its name after analysis of ima ... more Radio Telescopes To Keep Sharp Eye On Mars Lander 
Socorro NM (SPX) May 25, 2008As NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander descends through the Red Planet's atmosphere toward its landing on May 25, its progress will be scrutinized by radio telescopes from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). At NRAO control rooms in Green Bank, West Virginia, and Socorro, New Mexico, scientists, engineers and technicians will be tracking the faint signal from the lander, 171 million miles fr ... more MDA Solution To Look For Clues Of Water Above And Below The Surface Of Mars 
Richmond, Canada (SPX) May 25, 2008MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates reports that its engineers are preparing to support a Space mission which will look for evidence of water on Mars. As NASA's Phoenix spacecraft makes its final approach for a May 25th landing on Mars, engineers from MDA will support critical weather and robotics systems on-board the spacecraft from the mission operations center at the University of Arizona in ... more |
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Mountain View CA (SPX) May 23, 2008Shortly after NASA's Phoenix lander settles onto Mars' frigid, northern plains on May 25, it will undertake what is literally a microscopic examination of the red sand beneath its feet. By doing so, it may find evidence that liquid water - generally agreed to be a prerequisite of life - once pooled here. Examination of the Martian soil is part of the task of a sophisticated on-board instru ... more Mars Express Support To Phoenix Landing 
Paris, France (ESA) May 23, 2008Beginning late on 25 May, Mars Express will execute a series of pre-programmed commands specially designed to support NASA's Phoenix lander. The ESA spacecraft will conduct a high-speed slew, enabling it to track Phoenix as it enters the martian atmosphere. Mars Express will point its Lander Communications Antenna toward Phoenix's planned entry trajectory and record signals transmitted fro ... more Aerojet Propulsion Gears Up For Critical Phoenix Mars Landing Maneuvers 
Sacramento CA (SPX) May 22, 2008Aerojet, Lockheed Martin and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are counting on 12 Aerojet lander engines to smoothly land NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander onto the surface of Mars on May 25, 2008. Aerojet's eight cruise engines have guided the spacecraft to Mars, and the 12 lander engines will execute the first successful actively guided descent onto the northern plains of Mars since the ... more Mars Express Mission Controllers Ready For NASA Phoenix Landing 
Paris, France (ESA) May 21, 2008ESA's Mars Express mission control team are ready to monitor Phoenix's critical entry, descent and landing onto the Martian surface on 26 May 2008. The Mars Express mission control team have completed major preparations for supporting the entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase of NASA's Phoenix mission to the Red Planet. On 25 May, Mars Express will point towards Phoenix's planned entry ... more
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