Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - NASA and Google announced Monday the release of a new Mars mode in Google Earth that brings to everyone's desktop a high-resolution, three-dimensional view of the Red Planet.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 29, 2009 - The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit plans diagnostic tests this week after Spirit did not report some of its weekend activities, including a request to determine its orientation after an incomplete drive.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 29, 2009 - NASA spinoff technology from the Mars exploration rovers was used to capture a unique panoramic image of President Obama's inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2009 - As soon as Opportunity came out of solar conjunction - a period when the Sun passes between Earth and Mars and prohibits communication - engineers discovered that the rover's computer memory was a bit too full for comfort.
Carpinteria CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2009 - Antenna technology designed and built by Northrop Grumman made it possible for a radar sounder instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to detect huge glaciers on the Red Planet covered by a layer of dust and rocks.
Paris (AFP) Jan 20, 2009 - A large ice cap found at Mars' northern pole is of a very high degree of purity, according to an international study reported on Tuesday by French researchers.
Greenbelt, MD (GSFC) Jan 16, 2009 - Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, with an atmosphere so thin, any liquid water on the surface quickly boils away while the sun's ultraviolet radiation scorches the ground.
Washington (AFP) Jan 15, 2009 - Plumes of methane gas detected on Mars could be a sign of geological or biological activity -- and possibly the latest indication that life can be sustained on the Red Planet, according to a study released Thursday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2009 - This panorama shows the vista from which NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity spent five weeks in November and December 2008 while the sun was nearly directly in between Mars and Earth.
Calgary, Canada (SPX) Jan 13, 2009 - At first, figuring out how pebble-sized rocks organize themselves in evenly-spaced patterns in sand seemed simple and even intuitive. But once Andrew Leier, an assistant geoscience professor at the U of C, started observing, he discovered that the most commonly held notions did not apply.
Houston (UPI) Jan 12, 2009 - The Mars rover known as Spirit may be permanently stuck in the sand but remains of value for scientific exploration, NASA officials said.
Hartford CT (SPX) Jan 09, 2009 - Veteran inventor, business pioneer, futurist, and entrepreneur, Eric Knight, unveiled today his concept to enable the human exploration of Mars in a handful of years - instead of the 20-year timetable proposed by NASA and other space authorities.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 08, 2009 - Summer turned to autumn for the Phoenix Mars Lander on December 26, 2008. This image, taken on December 21 by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the lander during the last waning days of northern hemisphere summer.
Calgary, Alberta (UPI) Jan 8, 2009 - Pebbles that become part of clastic rocks in places like Arizona's Lower Antelope Canyon don't move with the wind but against it, a geosciences professor said.
Washington (XNA) Jan 05, 2009 - Mars probe has extended mankind's endless dream of exploring the mysterious universe five years after NASA's rover Spirit landed safely on the planet Mars.
Washington (AFP) Jan 4, 2009 - The US space agency's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity this month mark their fifth anniversary on the Red Planet, where they have endured harsh conditions and revealed a deluge of information.
