Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2006 - Spirit is healthy and continues to make progress toward Home Plate after driving more than 150 meters (492 feet), taking images, making atmospheric observations, and analyzing geology.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 6, 2006 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its microscopic imager to capture this jagged mini-landscape on a rock mission scientists have called GongGong. Measuring only 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) across, its surface records two of the most important and violent forces in the history of Mars - volcanoes and wind.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2006 - UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and colleagues have produced 3-D images of ancient fossils - 650 million to 850 million years old - preserved in rocks, an achievement that has never been done before.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2006 - NASA's next martian orbiter has gotten one step closer to the red planet with the transition from cruise phase to approach phase!
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 02, 2006 - A proposed new robotic mission to Mars plans to make the first exploration of subsurface water ice in a potentially habitable zone.
Opportunity is healthy and is continuing the characterization of an outcrop called "Olympia." The rover is on top of a feature called "…
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 01, 2006 - In the frame of a contract signed with the European Space Agency (ESA), Alcatel Alenia Space has started the ExoMars mission design. The ExoMars mission aims at sending a lander rover to Mars in order to find traces of past or present life.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2006 - UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and colleagues have produced 3-D images of ancient fossils - 650 million to 850 million years old - preserved in rocks, an achievement that has never been done before.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2006 - Spirit continues to make progress toward Home Plate, a conspicuous circular feature scientists hope to investigate before the Martian winter, in search of layered rock outcrops that may provide additional information about the geology of the Columbia Hills.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2006 - Opportunity remains healthy following another busy week. The main activity last week was taking microscopic images of a feature nicknamed Lower Overgaard. The science team identified individual, high-priority targets of interest, nicknamed Scotch, Bourbon, and Branchwater.
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 27, 2006 - Mars Express, the spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency into a near Martian orbit, will have been in business for two years in January 2006. This project - the successor to Russia's Mars-96 - has been a major achievement of European and Russian planetary science.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 27, 2006 - Spirit is healthy and continues to pursue the short-term goal of driving to 'Home Plate.' Results from scientific instruments on the rover's robotic arm indicate that the white soil target called 'Arad' has a salty chemistry dominated by iron-bearing sulfates.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 26, 2006 - A bold, new robotic mission to Mars proposes to make the first exploration of subsurface water ice in a potentially habitable zone.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2006 - NASA's Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been working overtime to help scientists better understand ancient environmental conditions on the red planet. The rovers are also generating excitement about the exploration of Mars outlined in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2006 - NASA's Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been working overtime to help scientists better understand ancient environmental conditions on the red planet. The rovers are also generating excitement about the exploration of Mars outlined in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 23, 2006 - ASU Professors of geological sciences L. Paul Knauth and Donald Burt think meteorites, rather than lakes, created the rock formations discovered by NASA's Opportunity rover.
