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Mars Orbiter Resumes Science Operations
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2009 -
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Return Of The Mars Hoax
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 11, 2009 - Just when you thought it was safe to check your email...For the sixth year in a row, a message about the Red Planet is popping up in email boxes around the world. It instructs readers to go outside after dark on August 27th and behold the sky. Mars will look as large as the full moon, it says. No one alive today will ever see this again.
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Life Support Pilot Plant Paves The Way To Moon And Beyond
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 08, 2009 - A pilot plant inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain, is testing regenerative life support system technologies that could one day recycle waste products and supply essential food, water and oxygen to humans living on the surface of the Moon or Mars.
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter In Safe Mode After Reboot
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode and in communications with Earth after an unexpected rebooting of its computer Wednesday evening, June 3.
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Scarce Shelter On Mars
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2009 - Extremophile bacteria can tough it out in the Siberian permafrost, but the environment of Mars may still be too hostile for such hardy life.
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Evidence For Liquid Water On Early Frozen Mars
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jun 01, 2009 - NASA scientists modeled freezing conditions on Mars to test whether liquid water could have been present to form the surface features of the Martian landscape.
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Find Your Own Place On The Red Planet
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 01, 2009 - Arizona State University researchers and scientists have created two new features for Google Earth 5.0, the popular online application that lets users tour Earth, the starry sky, and the Red Planet Mars.
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If You Could Travel To Mars, Would You Go
Houston TX (SPX) May 29, 2009 - On May 30, 2009, the John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science, also called The Health Museum, will launch the U.S. premiere of Facing Mars. The exhibit features interactive stations that encourage visitors to walk on Mars, test and launch rockets, fly over the Martian landscape and consider the implications humans face in their quest to reach the Red Planet. Facing Mars will be on display through September 7.
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NASA Selects Student’s Entry As New Mars Rover Name
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 28, 2009 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma from the Sunflower Elementary school in Lenexa submitted the winning entry, Curiosity.
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A One-way Ticket To Mars
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 27, 2009 - I'd like to talk about how to cut the cost of going to Mars. And there's one very obvious way, which is a one-way mission. Isn't this a crazy idea, a one-way mission to Mars? Who could possibly volunteer for such a thing? Isn't this a suicide mission? Well, the answer is: no, this is not a suicide mission.
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Research Demonstrates Potential For Liquid Water On Present-Day Mars
Fayetteville AK (SPX) May 25, 2009 - Researchers at the University of Arkansas have shown that salts formed from perchlorates discovered at the Phoenix landing site have the potential to be found in liquid solution under the temperature and pressure conditions on present-day Mars.
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Rover Teams Report Rich Body Of Research From Victoria Crater
Ithaca NY (SPX) May 25, 2009 - From views of spectacularly layered cliff walls and sulfate-rich rock to the detection of tiny hematite blueberries and probable meteor debris, the Mars rover Opportunity's two-year exploration of Victoria Crater has yielded a wealth of information about the planet's geologic history - and supported previous findings indicating that water once flowed on the planet's surface.
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Spirit Mars Rover Team Working On An Exit Strategy
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2009 - Rover team members continue their recovery strategy to extricate Spirit from the loose, soft terrain on the west side of Home Plate. The rover continues to conduct extensive remote sensing observations of the local terrain.
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NASA Rover Sees Variable Environmental History At Martian Crater
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 25, 2009 - One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.
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Opportunity Images Belly Pan To Help Spirit
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2009 - This week, Opportunity completed in-situ (contact) science with her robotic arm (IDD) on small pebbles located on an exposed rock outcrop.
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Victoria Crater Unveils More Of Mars’ Geologic Past
Ithaca NY (SPX) May 22, 2009 - After thoroughly investigating Victoria Crater on Mars for two years, the instruments aboard the Rover Opportunity reveal more evidence of our neighboring red planet's windy, wet and wild past. The overview of the findings - compiled in one source - is published in the latest issue of the journal Science (May 22, 2009).