Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2006 - Mars Rover controllers report that Opportunity remains healthy and is continuing to drive toward Victoria Crater. The rover covered a distance totaling about 170 meters (558 feet) during the week, and has been sending back images containing lots of ripples sprinkled with a dash of outcrops.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 05, 2006 - Mars rover mission controllers announced Tuesday what had been suspecting for several days: Spirit has permanently lost its right-front wheel. The disclosure came exactly two years and three months after the rover landed in a formation called Gusev Crater, near the Martian equator - long after its planned 90-day mission had expired.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 2, 2006 - NASA mission controllers have determined that Spirit's right-front wheel is permanently faulty, so they have decided to stop trying to use the wheel's drive motor - and from now on the rover will run on five wheels instead of six.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 1, 2006 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter began a crucial six-month effort Thursday intended to shrink its orbit gradually into a path mission scientists think is best for the spacecraft's science work.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 30, 2006 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander and Mars 2001 Odyssey missions have selected nine pairs of science teachers from across the country to become part of the next mission to Mars. This summer, the teachers will immerse themselves in a week-long summer field experience in Fairbanks, Alaska, featuring current polar science research on both Earth and Mars.
Marly-le-Roi, France (SPX) Mar 29, 2006 - IXSEA announced the signing of a EUR3 million deal between its subsidiary IXSPACE and EADS-Astrium for the delivery of Fiber Optic Gyroscopes (FOG) mono-axes for space applications over the next two years' at Oi06 in London today (21 March).
Paris France (SPX) Mar 28, 2006 - The latest images transmitted by the High Resolution Stereo Camera aboard ESA's Mars Express spacecraft reveal a region called Libya Montes, south of the Isidis Planitia impact basin on the red planet.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 28, 2006 - Spirit's mission team continues to investigate problems with the rover's right-front wheel. They have conducted a diagnostic test at a different temperature, but the result continues to indicate the wheel's circuit remains open, meaning it is inoperative.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 24, 2006 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter returned its first test images of the Martian surface early Friday, exciting mission controllers and providing a tantalizing preview of what the orbiter will reveal when its main science mission begins next fall.
Corvallis OR (SPX) Mar 24, 2006 - A new study of a meteorite that originated from Mars has revealed a series of microscopic tunnels that are similar in size, shape and distribution to tracks left on Earth rocks by feeding bacteria. And though researchers were unable to extract DNA from the Martian rocks, the finding nonetheless adds intrigue to the search for life beyond Earth.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2006 - While driving eastward toward the northwestern flank of the peak called McCool Hill, in the Columbia Hills of Gusev Crater, the wheels of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit churned up the largest amount of bright soil discovered so far in the mission.
Mojave Desert CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2006 - For the first time ever, NASA's Deep Space Network has used a pair of smaller antennas to successfully send two simultaneous signals to a spacecraft in deep space that were combined at the spacecraft to yield greater signal power.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 21, 2006 - The High Resolution Imaging Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is scheduled to take its first images of the red planet late Thursday night.
White Plains NY (SPX) Mar 21, 2006 - ITT Industries Deep Space Network (DSN) Operations and Maintenance team successfully supported the Mars Orbit Insertion for one of NASA's newest exploration missions, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 20, 2006 - As the Spirit rover leaves the formation named Home Plate on its way to its designated wintering area somewhere on or near the north-facing side of the peak named McCool - located in the Columbia Hills of Gusev Crater – the mission team at Jet Propulsion Laboratory is preparing for the annual reduction in solar energy and problems with the rover's right front wheel.
Paris France (SPX) Mar 19, 2006 - ESA's Mars Express orbiter's High-Resolution Stereo Camera has compiled images and an accompanying video showing unusual flow deposits on the floors of two adjacent impact craters in the eastern Hellas Planitia region. The structures suggest possible glacial processes.
