Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 15, 2009 - Tests on Earth simulating Spirit's predicament on Mars have reinforced understanding that getting Spirit to rove again will be very difficult.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2009 - Spirit is continuing remote sensing and in situ science while positioned at her embedded location on the west side of Home Plate. On Sol 2015 (Sept. 3, 2009), a Moessbauer (MB) integration was completed on target Olive Leaf.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2009 - Opportunity has commenced circumnavigation and full-circle imaging of the large meteorite Block Island. On Sol 1997 (Sept. 5, 2009), the rover moved 5.7 meters (18.7 feet) to the second of six stand-off positions around the meteorite (the first position being the initial rover location).
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 09, 2009 - AMASE reunited - August 13, 2009: The AMASE crews were united today thanks to several helicopter lifts from Ny-Alesund and some willing and able volunteers who established a tent camp on shore to free up enough rooms for all the Ny-Alesund personnel to move onto the ship.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Sep 08, 2009 - What should be the nation's goals and priorities for exploring Mars in the 2013 to 2022 timeframe? To help answer this question, Mars scientists from the United States and around the world will gather Sept. 9 to 11 at the Faculty Club on ASU's Tempe campus. Most of the discussions will be open to the public, in person and by webcast.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2009 - Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2009 - The Lance Arrives - Adrienne Kish (August 9, 2009): The simple explanation for why there was no blog entry for yesterday is that yesterday rather bled into today - it's all a bit of a blur. Science being what it is, we were processing samples until the wee hours of the morning and headed to bed for a quick one-hour nap before rising from the dead to meet the Lance as it arrived at the Ny-Alesund harbor.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2009 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself into a safe mode Wednesday morning, Aug. 26, for the fourth time this year, while maintaining spacecraft health and communications. While in safe mode, the spacecraft has limited activities pending further instructions from ground controllers.
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Aug 31, 2009 - Members of Virginia Tech's Space@VT research group are receiving a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build a chain of space weather instrument stations in Antarctica. Space weather affects a variety of everyday consumer technologies including global positioning systems (GPS), satellites for television reception, and cellular phones. Also, the understanding of space weather is critical to space programs.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2009 - Opportunity is continuing its contact investigation of the 70-centimeter (28-inch) meteorite called Block Island.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2009 - The amount of electricity generated by the solar panels on Spirit has been declining for the past several Martian days, or sols, as a regional dust storm moved southward and blocked some of the sunshine at Spirit's location. The team operating the rover has responsively trimmed Spirit's daily activities and is keeping an eye on weather reports from observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 28, 2009 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has invited Russia to carry out a joint manned flight to Mars, the head of NASA's Moscow office said on Tuesday.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2009 - The sun was shining on the glaciers all day yesterday, giving us a chance to take some spectacular photos in between projects. It also resulted in an abundance of small icebergs let loose into the water in the bay, so we were treated to a flotilla of blue ice moving slowly past the windows of the Marinlab facility while we worked.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2009 - A second, lighter-weight test rover has entered the testing setup at JPL where rover team members are assessing strategy for getting Spirit out of soft soil where it is embedded on Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2009 - Opportunity is continuing its in-situ (contact) investigation of the 70-centimeter (28-inch) meteorite called Block Island.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2009 - Spirit has passed 2,000 sols on the surface of Mars, yet another milestone. Starting its third sol millennia, Spirit continues to profile the geology at the location where the rover is embedded, a site called Troy on the west side of Home Plate.
