Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2009 - Opportunity had been driving to the west to go around a large field of impassable dunes on her long way to Endeavour crater. On Sol 1947 (July 16, 2009), the rover drove a little over 70 meters (230 feet) to the west, slightly north.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 23, 2009 - Volunteers from the Mars Society Australia's Sydney chapter have been selected to support this year's Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) expedition by running the Pacific-based Mission Support Centre. FMARS is an annual research expedition conducted at a research station located at Devon Island near the North Pole. The peer reviewed research conducted at Devon Island, a Mars-like 'analogue' environment, is geared towards learning how humans will live and work on Mars, and has been visited by scientists and engineers from around the world since it was first constructed in 2000. Australia's contribution to this expedition follows in the tradition of assisting international space-related projects and makes this valuable research possible.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2009 - Opportunity began the week positioned over exposed outcrop collecting in-situ (contact) science data and resting the right-front wheel's actuator.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2009 - Spirit, positioned on the west side of Home Plate, has been continuing her ambitious science campaign of remote sensing and in-situ (contact) science using all her payload elements.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2009 - This scene combines seven frames taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during the 1,891st Martian day, or sol, of Spirit's mission on Mars (April 28, 2009). It covers a vista from south-southeast on the left to northeast on the right.
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.
Washington (AFP) July 20, 2009 - As the world marked the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing Monday, astronauts urged Americans to take inspiration from the Apollo program and go back to the moon and beyond, to Mars.
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 - 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.
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.
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.
