Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2008 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2008 - NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years. To reach the crater the rover team calls Endeavour, Opportunity would need to drive approximately 12 kilometers (7 miles) to the southeast, matching the total distance it has traveled since landing on Mars in early 2004. The rover climbed out of Victoria Crater earlier this month.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2008 - During the past week, Opportunity has been trying to reach a patch of dust between two crests of the ridge surrounding Victoria Crater. The rover approached the ridge from the west, driving on flat ground, on Martian days, or sols, 1648 and 1650 (Sept. 12 and Sept. 14, 2008).
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2008 - The robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander slid a rock out of the way during the mission's 117th Martian day (Sept. 22, 2008) to gain access to soil that had been underneath the rock.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2008 - With Martian winter on the wane, Spirit is using significantly less energy to stay warm. During the winter solstice, Spirit needed 90 watt-hours to run the heater. Now, the rover uses between 30 and 40 watt-hours.
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 23, 2008 - Boston University's Center for Space Physics (CSP) has announced that it will participate in NASA's next mission to Mars to study the planets atmosphere and climate history - particularly the history of water on the planet.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2008 - A September 2008 release of 1,575 new images, such as this one, from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer (CRISM) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter brings the number of released, high-resolution CRISM images to 4,580.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2008 - Spirit continues to conserve solar power while performing light science activities during the Martian winter. During the past week, Spirit studied the atmosphere and acquired two frames of the full-color image mosaic known as the Bonestell panorama.
Scientists are now able to better explain why Mars's residual southern ice cap is misplaced, thanks to data from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft - the martian weather system is to blame.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2008 - This image from the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows morning frost inside the Snow White trench dug by the lander, in addition to subsurface ice exposed by use of a rasp on the floor of the trench.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2008 - NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 23, 2008 - If the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander can nudge a rock aside, scientists on the Phoenix team would like to see what's underneath.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2008 - During the past week, Opportunity performed several tests of the robotic arm to learn how to use it with a disabled shoulder joint. Having successfully completed those tests, Opportunity is moving on to investigate some bright patches of dust. Scientists hope to ascertain if the patches contain material not thoroughly analyzed in the past.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 19, 2008 - The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, has returned more than 8,214 gigapixel-size images of the Martian surface since the start of the science phase of the mission in November 2006.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 18, 2008 - Water may have played a role in shaping parts of the Martian landscape a billion years longer than previous studies have shown, according to a research team led by Catherine Weitz, a senior scientist with the Planetary Science Institute.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2008 - This image, taken by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager, documents the delivery of a soil sample from the Snow White trench to the Wet Chemistry Laboratory. A small pile of soil is visible on the lower edge of the second cell from the top.
