Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2011 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, will carry a next generation, onboard chemical element reader to measure the chemical ingredients in Martian rocks and soil. The instrument is one
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2011 - Opportunity emerged from the solar conjunction in good order. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Mars are disrupted because the Sun is directly in between the two
Korolev, Russia (AFP) Feb 18, 2011 - Astronauts on a simulated flight to Mars made a second walk on a mock-up of the Red Planet's surface in Russia Friday, collecting soil samples for analysis.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2011 - NASA scientists and their colleagues are now proposing corporate financing for a human mission to Mars. This raises the prospect that a spaceship named the Microsoft Explorer or the Google Search En
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 15, 2011 - Opportunity continues to be in the period of solar conjunction. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Mars are disrupted because the Sun is directly in between the tw
Moscow (AFP) Feb 14, 2011 - A group of volunteers will step out for a space walk on Mars Monday, as an unprecedented one-and-a-half year experiment to study the effects of a mission to the Red Planet reaches its cliamx.
Korolev, Russia (AFP) Feb 14, 2011 - Two volunteers cut off from the rest world for eight months stepped out on a mock-up of Mars on Monday, reaching the dramatic half-way point of their experimental voyage to the Red Planet.
Moscow (AFP) Feb 14, 2011 - Two volunteers from Italy and Russia on Monday stepped out for their first virtual space walk on Mars, which came as part of an experiment to study the effects of a mission to the Red Planet.
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 14, 2011 - Three crewmembers of the virtual flight to Mars have 'landed' on their destination planet and two of them today took their first steps on the simulated martian terrain. The highlight of the Mars500
Moscow (UPI) Feb 12, 2011 - A crew of astronauts successfully simulated a landing on Mars inside a large hangar in Moscow, officials said.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 11, 2011 - 'Half-time' for Mars 500; on 12 February 2011, after a 250-day simulated flight to Mars, three crewmembers will land on the Red Planet. They will climb out of their isolation pod two days later at t
Moscow (AFP) Feb 10, 2011 - A group of volunteers will on Saturday reach a key stage in an unprecedented one-and-a-half year experiment to study the effects of a mission to Mars when they land on the Red Planet's surface.
Richland WA (SPX) Feb 09, 2011 - Finding life on Mars could get easier with a creative adaption to a common analytical tool that can be installed directly on the robotic arm of a space rover. In a recent paper published onlin
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 08, 2011 - ESA's Mars Express has returned new views of pedestal craters in the Red Planet's eastern Arabia Terra. Craters are perhaps the quintessential planetary geological feature. So much so that early pla
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2011 - Sand dunes in a vast area of northern Mars long thought to be frozen in time are changing with both sudden and gradual motions, according to research using images from a NASA orbiter. These du
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2011 - Opportunity has entered the solar conjunction period. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Mars are disrupted because the Sun is directly in between the two planets.
