Providence RI (SPX) Jun 25, 2010 - Planetary scientists have uncovered telltale signs of water on Mars - frozen and liquid - in the earliest period of the Red Planet's history. A new claim, made public this month, is that a deep ocean covered some of the northern latitudes.
Paris (AFP) June 25, 2010 - Conditions suitable for life -- most notably the presence of water -- may once have existed all over Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Friday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2010 - Minerals in northern Mars craters seen by two orbiters suggest that a phase in Mars' early history with conditions favorable to life occurred globally, not just in the south.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2010 - Opportunity has been making good progress toward Endeavour crater with three drives in the past week.
Washington (AFP) June 23, 2010 - A teen school project on Mars uncovered a surprise -- what appears to be a hole in the roof of a cave on the red planet, researchers said Wednesday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 21, 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).
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 21, 2010 - Opportunity is driving again and has now covered 21 kilometers (13 miles) of odometry on Mars.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 18, 2010 - They went looking for lava tubes on Mars - and found what may be a hole in the roof of a Martian cave. The 16 students in Dennis Mitchell's 7th-grade science class at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., chose to study lava tubes, a common volcanic feature on Earth and Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 16, 2010 - Engineers with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are running diverse trials with a test version of the radar system that will enable NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission to put the Curiosity rover onto the Martian surface in August 2012.
London, UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2010 - The UK Space Agency is announcing Pounds 10.5M for the development of instruments to search for signs of past or present life on Mars. The instruments are part of the scientific payload on the ExoMars rover to be launched in 2018 as part of a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and US space agency NASA. ExoMars is a flagship project in the UK Space Agency's science and exploration programme.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 16, 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).
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 15, 2010 - A vast ocean likely covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a new study conducted by University of Colorado at Boulder scientists.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2010 - The pancam mast assembly (PMA) azimuth error from Sol 2257 (May 30, 2010), is still being resolved on Opportunity, although with a likely explanation in hand.
Paris (AFP) June 13, 2010 - A huge, potentially life-giving sea likely covered more than a third of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a study released Sunday.
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.
