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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 19, 2009 - NASA's rover project team is using the Spirit rover and other spacecraft at Mars to begin developing the best maneuvers for extracting Spirit from the soft Martian ground where it has become embedded.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 19, 2009 - Opportunity has been using its robotic arm (instrument deployment device, or IDD) to conduct a contact science investigation of small pebbles located on exposed rock outcrop.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 18, 2009 - Spirit is embedded in loose, soft terrain on the west side of Home Plate. There is a real risk the rover may be high-centered (underside touching) on a small mound of rocks right under the belly of the rover. Additionally, a left wheel motor stall occurred during the last rover motion on Sol 1899 (May 6, 2009). No motion has been commanded since.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 15, 2009 - Science fiction writers have long imagined a future for humans on Mars, and Hollywood has created several movie fantasies about what the experience could be like (with a few improbable aliens added for extra drama). NASA has addressed the possibility of creating human colonies on Mars someday, but so far, only robots have stepped foot on the red soil.
Madrid,l Spain (SPX) May 14, 2009 - GMV has been commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Thales Alenia Space Italy (TAS-I) to build a prototype of an all-terrain, rover-type vehicle for Space to explore the surface of Mars and the Moon.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 12, 2009 - The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground.
Los Angeles (AFP) May 12, 2009 - NASA's Spirit rover, which has been exploring Mars for evidence of water, has gotten stuck, perhaps inextricably, in the soft Martian soil, said officials from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 08, 2009 - NASA has selected two science investigations that will aid in the interior examination of Mars and probe the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury. The projects, valued at approximately $38 million, also establish new alliances with the European Space Agency, or ESA.
Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2009 - NASA has selected two science investigations that will aid in the interior examination of Mars and probe the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 04, 2009 - Efforts to reach the martian moon Phobos have long been outshined by missions to the Red Planet itself. Now, scientists in Russia, Canada and the U.S. are preparing their own missions to the largest moon of Mars. Mars actually has two moons: Phobos and Deimos.
