Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2009 - The Mars rover team is using a test rover at JPL to assess various extraction techniques that might get Spirit out of the loose soil of Troy on Mars. One of the maneuvers being run with the test rover involves turning the rear wheels toward the left while the left-front wheel is turned toward the right, and driving forward to pivot around the inoperable right-front wheel.
Lakewood CO (SPX) Jul 17, 2009 - The FMARS Xll 2009 crew has arrived on Mars and is now entering their formal simulated Mars mission. They are on Devon Island, north of the Arctic Circle, peering out the portholes of the Mars habitat located at the edge of the Haughton Crater.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 16, 2009 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings on the 1,850th Martian day, or sol, of its surface mission (April 7, 2009).
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 15, 2009 - A team of researchers from the CSIC-INTA Astrobiology Centre in Madrid has confirmed that the type of mineralogical composition on the surface of Mars influences the measuring of its temperature.
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 15, 2009 - The 105-day space travel simulation experiment 'Mars 500', based in Moscow with German involvement, has just finished. On 14 July 2009, the crew, including Oliver Knickel, a member of the German Army, left the module system at the Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 15, 2009 - Scientists have combined a trio of shots taken seconds apart through different colored filters to create a special-effects portrait of a moving dust devil on Mars.
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 15, 2009 - From March 31 to July 14, a six-man international crew called an isolation chamber in Moscow their home. The crew, composed of four Russians and two Europeans, simulated a 105-day Mars mission full of experiments and realistic mission scenarios, including emergency situations and 20-minute communications delays.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2009 - Spirit remains positioned just west of Home Plate, in the location called Troy, where the rover has been continuing an ambitious science campaign.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2009 - Opportunity has driven to a large expanse of outcrop to conduct in-situ (contact) science. On Sol 1932 (June 30, 2009), the microscopic imager (MI) collected a stack of images, and then the Mossbauer spectrometer (MB) was placed on a surface target called Absecon for an overnight integration.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 09, 2009 - Planetary scientists have monitored some Martian sand dunes for more than 30 years, and the dunes have not moved during that time, leading scientists to question whether snow and ice trapped inside the dunes might be preventing movement.
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jul 9, 2009 - U.S. space agency engineers said they used backward motion during the second evaluation of maneuvers that might free a stuck Mars rover.
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jul 7, 2009 - The U.S. space agency says it's using a test rover placed in a sandbox to simulate how best to get the rover, Spirit, extracted from loose Martian soil.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 06, 2009 - Favorable chemistry and episodes with thin films of liquid water during ongoing, long-term climate cycles may sometimes make the area where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed last year a favorable environment for microbes.
London, UK (SPX) Jun 30, 2009 - New research led by a UK scientist indicates that Mars had significantly warmer weather in its recent past than previously thought.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2009 - Spirit is continuing her ambitious remote sensing and in-situ (contact) science observations at the location called Troy on the west side of Home Plate.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2009 - Opportunity has been moving toward a candidate patch of rock outcrop in preparation for a rest of the mobility system over the coming holiday. There continues to be concern with the elevated motor currents seen in the right front wheel.
