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.
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.
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.
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.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 23, 2006 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit spent the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend analyzing a remarkable exposure of bright, loose material. Spirit discovered the material while driving toward Home Plate along the floor of the basin south of Husband Hill in Gusev Crater.
Opportunity has resumed driving after engineers determined an acceptable new way to stow the robotic arm during drives.
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.
Paris (ESA) Jan 23, 2006 - These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show the depression of Juventae Chasma, cut into the plains of Lunae Planum on Mars.
Paris (ESA) Jan 23, 2006 - The spectacular features visible today on the surface of the Red Planet indicate the past existence of Martian glaciers, but where did the ice come from?
Snow is the source of glacial deposits found at the base of the majestic volcanoes and mountains dotting the mid-latitude and tropical regions of Mars.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2006 - Scientists think they have established a link between an ancient collision in the main asteroid belt and a layer of dust particles deposited on Earth from space soon thereafter. The findings could help identify similar events in the geological record and provide more clues about the history of the solar system.
