Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 24, 2010 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, now in its seventh year on Mars, has a new capability to make its own choices about whether to make additional observations of rocks that it spots on arrival at a new location.
Noordwijk, Netherlands (ESA) Mar 24, 2010 - A crew of six, including two Europeans, will soon begin a simulated mission to Mars in a mockup that includes an interplanetary spaceship, Mars lander and martian landscape. The Mars500 experiment, as long as a real journey to Mars, is the ultimate test of human endurance.
Noordwijk, Netherlands (AFP) March 22, 2010 - Four Europeans vying to become guinea pigs for a 500-day simulated mission to Mars said Monday they were proud to be putting their young lives on hold for the sake of scientific advancement.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 22, 2010 - In her winter position, still embedded in the area called Troy on the west side of Home Plate, Spirit has transitioned to executing a single, seven-sol plan each week, as long as power permits.
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 16, 2010 - Images from the recent flyby of Phobos, taken on 7 March 2010 by the German Aerospace Center-operated (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board Mars Express, are being released today. The images show Mars's rocky moon in exquisite detail, with a resolution of 4.4 metres per pixel, including the proposed landing sites for the forthcoming Phobos-Grunt mission.
Leicester UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2010 - Space physicists from the University of Leicester are part of an international team that has identified the impact of the Sun on Mars' atmosphere. Writing in the AGU journal Geophysics Research Letters, the scientists report that Mars is constantly losing part of its atmosphere to space.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 12, 2010 - Opportunity has finished its circumnavigation campaign around Concepcion crater. Numerous targeted images were taken of rocks around the crater but no new rock targets were chosen to be analyzed using the in-situ (contact) instruments of the rover's robotic arm (IDD).
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 10, 2010 - Russia's Institute of Medical and Biological Problems announced on Thursday the names of 11 volunteers on the shortlist to take part in a 520-day simulation of an expedition to Mars, a spokesman said.
Koln, Germany (SPX) Mar 08, 2010 - Mars Express encountered Phobos last night, smoothly skimming past at just 67 km, the closest any manmade object has ever approached Mars' enigmatic moon. The data collected could help unlock the origin of not just Phobos but other 'second generation' moons.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2010 - Flowing lava can carve or build paths very much like the riverbeds and canyons etched by water, and this probably explains at least one of the meandering channels on the surface of Mars. These results were presented on March 4, 2010 at the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference by Jacob Bleacher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 05, 2010 - Spirit is in her winter position, still embedded in the area called Troy on the west side of Home Plate.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 05, 2010 - NASA's newest Mars orbiter, completing its fourth year at the Red Planet next week, has just passed a data-volume milestone unimaginable a generation ago and still difficult to fathom: 100 terabits.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 04, 2010 - Extensive radar mapping of the middle-latitude region of northern Mars shows that thick masses of buried ice are quite common beneath protective coverings of rubble.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 - Astrobiology Magazine (AM): Let's talk about the paper you just published in the journal Science.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 02, 2010 - Spirit Status for sol 2177-2184: Spirit is in her winter position, still embedded in the area called Troy on the west side of Home Plate. Efforts continue to prepare the rover for winter.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 02, 2010 - Opportunity Status for sol 2158-2165: Opportunity is located near the very young crater Concepcion. The rover has been investigating the ejecta material around the crater, with some rocks exhibiting a dark rind. On Sol 2158 (Feb. 18, 2010), Opportunity continued the in-situ investigation of the rock target, Chocolate Hills.
