Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2012 - Amateur astronomers who on occasion observe Mars through the eyepiece of their telescopes are quite familiar with the region of Syrtis Major; when observing conditions are good, it can be easily ide
Moscow (AFP) Jan 31, 2012 - Russia on Tuesday blamed a computer malfunction caused by the impact of cosmic rays for the failure of its Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars, one of a litany of setbacks for its embattled space programme.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2012 - Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production during the winter. Opp
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 30, 2012 - Some images of stark Martian landscapes provide visual appeal beyond their science value, including a recent scene of wind-sculpted features from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRI
Laurel MA (SPX) Jan 26, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Opportunity discovered a mineral vein telling of a warmer, wetter and potentially more conducive to life past for the seemingly cold, dry and desolate Red Planet. The mineral vein,
Washington (RIA Novosti) Jan 24, 2012 - A spokesperson at the Department of State denied information that the crash of the Phobos-Grunt probe to the Martian moon Phobos could have been caused by a powerful electromagnetic emission from a
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 20, 2012 - A Russian government commission looking into the crash of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe says engineering flaws were the main cause of its failure, the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Vladi
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 20, 2012 - Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. Opportunity is conduc
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 20, 2012 - Two spacecraft engineers join a grouping of vehicles providing a comparison of three generations of Mars rovers developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The setting is JPL's M
Beijing (XNA) Jan 19, 2012 - China's Wang Yue was one of astronauts in the Mars-500 project to discover the effects of prolonged space flight on the body and mind. Wang Ru reports. Wang Yue, who is still recovering from 5
Moscow (UPI) Jan 19, 2012 - The failure of a Russian Mars mission that crashed back to Earth was due to testing errors and engineering flaws, the head of the country's space agency says.
Moscow (AFP) Jan 17, 2012 - Russia on Tuesday said the failure of its Phobos-Grunt probe for Mars could have been caused by radiation from US radars, in its latest allegation of Western interference in its space programme.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 16, 2012 - Opportunity is positioned for winter on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is tilted about 15 degrees to the north for favorable solar energy production. Op
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2012 - Tempe Terra is located at the northeastern edge of the Tharsis volcanic region and forms the transition zone between the southern highlands and the northern lowlands. This area is characterised by a
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2012 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the biggest maneuver planned for the mission's journey between Earth and Mars. We've completed a
Moscow (AFP) Jan 11, 2012 - Russia's space agency on Wednesday pinpointed the likely trajectory of its stranded Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, predicting it would crash into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta later this week.
