Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 25, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has groomed the bottom of a shallow trench to prepare for collecting a sample to be analyzed from a hard subsurface layer where the soil may contain frozen water.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 24, 2008 - Phoenix early Tuesday finished its longest work shift of the mission. The lander stayed awake for 33 hours, completing tasks that included rasping and scraping by the robotic arm, in addition to atmosphere observations in coordination with simultaneous observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 22, 2008 - The first robotic mission to return samples to Earth from Mars took a further step toward realisation with the recent publication of a mission design report by the iMARS Working Group.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 22, 2008 - To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2008 - Later this month, NASA's Spaceward Bound program will send a team of scientists and teachers to explore the permanently frozen landscape of Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian high Arctic.
Dallas TX (SPX) Jul 21, 2008 - The average day, or sol, on Mars is 40 minutes longer than our 24-hour day on Earth. UT Dallas Physics Professor John Hoffman has spent more than 50 days on Martian time analyzing soil from the surface of the Red Planet.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2008 - Mars once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life, according to two new studies based on data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) and other instruments on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2008 - Two studies based on data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2008 - The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 18, 2008 - Little did Bucknell University geology professors Craig Kochel and Jeffrey Trop know as they were working in Alaska that they would soon predict one of the most important planetary observations ever made.
San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 18, 2008 - Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS), has delivered the first of four science cameras it is developing for the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2009 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover mission.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 18, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander.
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2008 - Two studies based on data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life.
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 17, 2008 - Scientists and engineers are preparing ESA's Mars Express for a pair of close fly-bys of the Martian moon Phobos. Passing within 100 km of the surface, Mars Express will conduct some of the most detailed investigations of the moon to date.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 17, 2008 - A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 16, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens.
