Madison WI (SPX) Jan 11, 2012 - Going to Mars? Expect to stay a while. Because of the relative motions of Earth and Mars, the pioneering astronauts who touch down on the Martian surface will have to remain there for a year and a h
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 11, 2012 - Phobos-Grunt, a failed Russian sample mission to a Martian moon, was launched despite risks of which Russian scientists were well aware, the head of the Russian space agency said on Tuesday. P
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2012 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next several months at a site informally named Greeley Haven. The name is a tribute to planetary geologist Ronald Greeley (1939-2011), who
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 09, 2012 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next few months during the coldest part of Martian winter at Greeley Haven, an outcrop of rock on Mars recently named informally to honor ASU
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 09, 2012 - An engine firing on Jan. 11 will be the biggest maneuver that NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft will perform on its flight between Earth and Mars. The action will use a choreographed s
Moscow (UPI) Jan 6, 2012 - Up to 400 pounds of Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt Mars space probe could fall to Earth between Jan. 10 and 21, the Roscosmos space agency said Friday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 06, 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
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 31, 2011 - Opportunity is positioned at a candidate site for Mars' southern hemisphere winter. The rover is at the north end of 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, tilted about 15 degrees to the north
St. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 28, 2011 - NASA has announced that Raymond E. Arvidson, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, h
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2011 - This period began with a campaign of using the Microscopic Imager (MI) and Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) to examine a target called Komati on the Saddleback outcrop. After two d
Corvallis OR (SPX) Dec 19, 2011 - A team of scientists from Oregon has collected microbes from ice within a lava tube in the Cascade Mountains and found that they thrive in cold, Mars-like conditions. The microbes tolerate tem
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 19, 2011 - Opportunity is positioned at one of the candidate sites for winter, on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. There are two candidate sites for winter havens that indicate suff
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 19, 2011 - When a meteorite careens toward the dusty surface of the Red Planet, it kicks up dust and can cause avalanching even before the rock from outer space hits the ground, a research team led by an under
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 16, 2011 - The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on board Mars Express has recently completed a subsurface sounding campaign over the planet's North Pole. The campa
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2011 - Scientists from The Australian National University have found that extensive regions of the sub-surface of Mars could contain water and be at comfortable temperatures for terrestrial - and potential
San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 14, 2011 - NASA will launch the Mars Science Laboratory on Nov. 26, 2011, to assess the past and present habitability of the Red Planet's surface. The mission will land Curiosity, a rover equipped with 10 inst
