New Rochelle NY (SPX) Jun 11, 2010 - The ongoing search for evidence of past or present life on Mars includes efforts to identify organic compounds such as proteins in Martian soil, but their absence to date remains a mystery. A new theory to explain what happens to these carbon-based molecules is presented in an article published in Astrobiology
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jun 11, 2010 - The U.S. space agency says it is testing a version of the radar system that will be used to land a new rover on Mars in August 2012.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 10, 2010 - Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges and steep cliffs.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 09, 2010 - A geologic mapping project using NASA spacecraft data offers new evidence that expansive lakes existed long ago on Mars. The research points to a series of sedimentary deposits consistent with what would relate to large standing bodies of water in Hellas Planitia located in the southern hemisphere of Mars, said by Dr.Leslie Bleamaster, research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute.
Cologne, Germany (SPX) Jun 09, 2010 - It resembles a cross between a Finnish sauna and an enlarged roof structure from the seventies - but this wood-panelled container with its dormer-style roof, in which six men are going to be living from 3 June in voluntary isolation for 17 months, is not intended to provide much by way of luxury.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2010 - With the passing of the winter solstice and improving power, Opportunity continues to drive towards Endeavour crater.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2010 - A catalogue of places on Earth where one can find Mars-like conditions might include Antarctica's Dry Valleys, Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic, the hyper-acidic Rio Tinto in Spain, and Chile's bone-dry Atacama Desert. But it probably wouldn't include Brooklyn.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 08, 2010 - Spirit remains silent at her location called Troy on the west side of Home Plate. No communication has been received from the rover since Sol 2210 (March 22, 2010).
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 07, 2010 - Researchers at McGill's department of natural resources, the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto and the SETI Institute have discovered that methane-eating bacteria survive in a highly unique spring located on Axel Heiberg Island in Canada's extreme North.
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 07, 2010 - Researchers at McGill's department of natural resources, the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto and the SETI Institute have discovered that methane-eating bacteria survive in a highly unique spring located on Axel Heiberg Island in Canada's extreme North.
Moscow, Russia (ESA) Jun 04, 2010 - Hatch closed: 18-month Mars500 mission has begun. Mars500, the first full-length simulated mission to Mars, started today in Moscow at 13:49 local time (11:49 CET), when the six-man crew entered their 'spacecraft' and the hatch was closed. The experiment will run until November next year.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 04, 2010 - It's amazing what cleaning your glasses can reveal. A mineral-scouting instrument developed at ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility has found an outcrop of rock rich in carbonate minerals in the Columbia Hills of Gusev Crater on Mars, according to a report published online June 3 in the journal Science. The instrument is onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.
Raleigh NC (SPX) Jun 03, 2010 - The concept of a wind-powered vehicle that can be used to explore the surface of Mars - a so-called tumbleweed rover that would roll over the surface of Mars like a tumbleweed - has been around for more than 10 years, but so far there has been no consensus on exactly what that vehicle should look like.
Leicester, UK (SPX) Jun 03, 2010 - University of Leicester scientists have announced the start of work, in collaboration with industry, on advanced instruments for ExoMars- a new mission to Mars in 2018.
Moscow (AFP) June 3, 2010 - Six men from Europe, Russia and China will on Thursday be voluntarily locked away in a module for almost one and a half years to simulate the psychological effects of a mission to Mars.
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 03, 2010 - About to be shut away from the outside world, the Mars500 volunteers still get to have fun. Their duties will include regular playing of video games - though with a serious purpose.
