Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2009 - The parachute for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory passed flight-qualification testing in March and April 2009 inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 16, 2009 - Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports.
On Sol 1845 (April 2, 2009), the rover's robotic arm (IDD) placed the Mossbauer (MB) spectrometer on the outcrop target "Penrhyn" for a multi-sol integration.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 14, 2009 - The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is examining data received from Spirit in recent days to diagnose why the rover apparently rebooted its computer at least twice over the April 11-12 weekend.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2009 - Spirit is making good progress around Home Plate to the west. After getting clear of troublesome rocks, Spirit drove 13.8 meters (45.3 feet) on Sol 1854 (March 21, 2009).
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2009 - Opportunity remains positioned on an exposed rock outcrop, continuing an in situ (contact) science campaign with the robotic arm (IDD).
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove 22.7 meters (74 feet) toward the southwest on the 1,861st Martian day, or sol, of Spirit's mission on Mars (March 28, 2009).
Moscow, Russia (ESA) Apr 02, 2009 - Earlier today, a crew of six, including two ESA-selected participants and four Russians, embarked on a simulated mission to Mars. Although they will not leave the confines of a dedicated isolation facility in Moscow for 105 days, their mission will help prepare for a real human mission to Mars in the future.
Moscow (AFP) March 31, 2009 - The hatch slammed shut Tuesday behind six volunteers from Europe and Russia who will spend three months isolated in a capsule in Moscow to simulate conditions for a manned mission to Mars.
Moscow (AFP) March 29, 2009 - Six volunteers from Europe and Russia will on Tuesday allow themselves to be locked up in a capsule in Moscow for over three months to simulate the conditions for an eventual manned mission to Mars.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 27, 2009 - The High Resolution Imaging Experiment, or HiRISE, run from The University of Arizona, is seeing signs of spring on Mars. The signs are absolutely martian and unearthly.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 27, 2009 - In January 2004, NASA landed two identical robotic rovers named Spirit and Opportunity on the surface of Mars. The twins were primed for a brief 3-month mission to tell us a story of water and possibly life itself in the planet's past.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 27, 2009 - Did you ever wish you could stroll through the caldera of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system? Study the rock formations in Valles Marineris, a martian canyon as wide as the United States? Or retrace the tracks of NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers?
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2009 - Opportunity has positioned itself at an exposed rock outcrop and is in the middle of an in situ (contact) science campaign with the robotic arm (IDD). Because of the project team's desire to rest the right-front wheel actuator and to limit driving while an earlier drive sequence error is remedied, Opportunity took advantage of the nearby rock outcrop.
San Francisco (AFP) March 24, 2009 - Microsoft and NASA on Tuesday announced an alliance to focus the software giant's virtual WorldWide Telescope on space agency images of Mars and other celestial bodies.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2009 - NASA will post online nine names that are finalists for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory mission and invite the public to vote for its favorite. The non-binding poll to help NASA select a name opens online Monday, March 23, and will accept votes through March 29.
