Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 11, 2009 - Happy anniversary to both Spirit and Opportunity for completing five Earth-years exploring the surface of Mars! Opportunity's goal this past week has been to put the pedal to the metal and acquire drive-by images of a crater dubbed Ranger Crater.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 10, 2009 - Scientists at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute (PSI) have found further evidence for the large role that water has likely played in shaping the Martian landscape.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2009 - About half a year before the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander began digging into soil and subsurface ice of an arctic plain of Mars, six scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for soil-and-ice studies that would end up aiding analysis of the Mars data.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 06, 2009 - Scientists at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute (PSI) have found further evidence for the large role that water has likely played in shaping the Martian landscape.
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 - The U.S. space agency says it and the California Institute of Technology have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2009 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit resumed driving Saturday after engineers gained confidence from diagnostic activities earlier in the week evaluating how well the rover senses its orientation.
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.
