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.
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.
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.
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.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 16, 2008 - A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 15, 2008 - Opportunity has begun work on the much anticipated panorama of the layered promontory known as Cape Verde inside Victoria Crater. The panorama will take several Martian days, or sols, to complete and will be made up of a mosaic of panoramic-camera images. The Cape Verde panorama is expected to be spectacular, one for the textbooks.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 15, 2008 - On July 7 and July 12, 1988, the Soviet Union launched two space probes, Phobos-1 and Phobos-2, to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars and its moons, Phobos, named after the Greek word for Fear, and Deimos, Terror.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 15, 2008 - Spirit's battery is recharging nicely now that rover planners have reduced the frequency of communications to and from the rover during the darkest days of Martian winter. Most measures of battery health are showing an increase of about 2 amp-hours in the battery state of charge (an amp-hour is equivalent to the amount of charge flowing for one hour from a current of 1 amp).
Opportunity has completed work on the stand-off portion of the full-color panorama of the layered cliff known as "Cape Verde." It may take a couple…
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2008 - Spirit continues to ride out the Martian winter by doing minimal activities to conserve power. The rover conducts very light science activities every three to four Martian days, or sols, and relays data to NASA's Odyssey orbiter for transmission to Earth every 4 sols. The rest of the time, Spirit mostly sleeps.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer, or TEGA.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2008 - Signs of life on Mars may be hiding under its rocks, or perhaps hiding inside those rocks. A new study offers a simplified technique for detecting biological and pre-biotic molecules that become trapped inside minerals.
