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NASA: Spirit still stuck in martian sand
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.
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NASA works on Spirit’s extraction
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.
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NASA Phoenix Results Point To Martian Climate Cycles
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.
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Landforms Indicate Recent Warm Weather On Mars
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.
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Spirit Continues To Study Troy
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.
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Opportunity Moves To Outcrop For Rest
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.
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Mars Rover Yielding New Clues While Lodged In Martian Soil
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2009 - NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history.
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4Frontiers Team Members Lead Simulated Mars Mission
Tampa FL (SPX) Jun 25, 2009 - 4Frontiers Corporation is pleased to announce that it is spearheading this summer's expedition to the Mars Society's Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic.
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Spirit Undertaking More Soil Investigation
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2009 - Spirit remains stationary on the west side of Home Plate in the location called Troy. The rover continues to be busy with an ambitious observation campaign employing both remote sensing and in-situ (contact) science with the robotic arm (instrument deployment device, IDD).
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New Instrument Could Detect Water Deep Underground On Mars
San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 25, 2009 - With the whoosh of compressed gas and the whir of unspooling wire, a team of Boulder scientists and engineers tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep inside Mars.
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Opportunity Clearing The Dust
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2009 - Opportunity has been stationary this week resting the right-front drive actuator. During this time, the rover is conducting a series of robotic arm (IDD) activities.
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit To Study Warmer Ground
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2009 - NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit, positioning itself to look down at the day side of the planet in mid-afternoon instead of late afternoon.
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105-Day Mars Mission Simulation Finishes On 14 July
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 22, 2009 - On 14 July, a crew of six will leave their Mars mission simulator and see the Sun once again. The crew, which includes a French pilot and a German engineer selected by the European Space Agency, will have completed 105 days of confinement and numerous scientific experiment runs inside the isolation facility at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow.
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Apollo astronaut Aldrin urges US to land on Mars
Hong Kong (AFP) June 19, 2009 - NASA should focus on sending a man to Mars and helping other nations travel in space, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin said Friday.
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Spirit Observes Its Surroundings At Troy
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 19, 2009 - Spirit remains stationary on the west side of Home Plate. Work continues on developing the ground testing to assist the rover in extracting itself from the embedding in this location, called Troy.
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Evidence Found Of Lightning On Mars
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jun 18, 2009 - U.S. scientists say they have detected the first direct evidence of lightning occurring on Mars. University of Michigan researchers said they found signs of electrical discharges during dust storms on the red planet. The bolts were dry lightning, Professor Chris Ruf said.