Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 27, 2008 - New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought.
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008 - NASA has cleared up a malfunction that for several hours caused a rupture in communications between Phoenix Mars Lander, the US space agency said Wednesday.
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008 - A communications glitch between the Phoenix Mars probe and Earth has delayed operations, two days after the spacecraft landed on the Red Planet in search of conditions to support life, NASA said Tuesday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2008 - A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25.
Washington (AFP) May 26, 2008 - A NASA probe sent back never-before-seen pictures of Mars' north pole Monday, in the most ambitious mission to date to find life-sustaining minerals on the Red Planet.
Rome, Italy (SPX) May 26, 2008 - The radar sounder SHARAD of the NASA mission Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images of the Mars North Pole stratigraphy.
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 26, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 26, 2008 - A NASA spacecraft today sent pictures showing itself in good condition after making the first successful landing in a polar region of Mars. The images from NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander also provided a glimpse of the flat valley floor expected to have water-rich permafrost within reach of the lander's robotic arm.
Pasadena, CA (JPL) May 25, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has safely landed on Mars. With all immediate post launch steps completed. Images from the landing zone will hopefully be available in about two hours. This is the first successful rocket landing on Mars since 1976.
Richmond, Canada (SPX) May 25, 2008 - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates reports that its engineers are preparing to support a Space mission which will look for evidence of water on Mars. As NASA's Phoenix spacecraft makes its final approach for a May 25th landing on Mars, engineers from MDA will support critical weather and robotics systems on-board the spacecraft from the mission operations center at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Washington (AFP) May 25, 2008 - An ambitious effort to determine whether Mars' arctic region was ever habitable for microbial forms of life got underway Sunday when NASA landed the Phoenix probe near the Red Planet's north pole.
Pasadena CA (AFP) May 25, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has safely landed on Mars. With all immediate post launch steps completed. Images from the landing zone will hopefully be available in about two hours. This is the first successful rocket landing on Mars since 1976.
Washington (AFP) May 25, 2008 - An ambitious effort to determine whether Mars' arctic region was ever habitable for microbial forms of life got underway Sunday when NASA landed the Phoenix probe near the Red Planet's north pole.
On May 25, 2008, approaching 5 p.m. PDT, NASA scientists will be wondering: Just how green is their valley?
Socorro NM (SPX) May 25, 2008 - As NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander descends through the Red Planet's atmosphere toward its landing on May 25, its progress will be scrutinized by radio telescopes from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). At NRAO control rooms in Green Bank, West Virginia, and Socorro, New Mexico, scientists, engineers and technicians will be tracking the faint signal from the lander, 171 million miles from Earth.
by Michael Schirberfor Astrobiology Magazine - Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 06, 2008 Current and upcoming missions to Mars hope to find some sign of past or present life in martian soil. But a constant worry is that biological contamination on the spacecraft will lead to a false detection.
