Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 19, 2006 - Spirit is healthy and is driving as efficiently as possible toward Home Plate. On the way to Home Plate, Spirit stopped to look at Arad, where scientists encountered a cluster of white, powdery soil. Researchers decided to stop for a few days and use the robotic arm to conduct some measurements on it. Results are expected soon.
Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 16, 2006 - Good stuff is happening on both sides of the planet. At Meridiani, the main source of excitement continues to be the festoons. The low-light imaging we've been doing is great for bringing this stuff out, and we've come to realize that it's present in a whole lot of the rocks around us.
by Phil BerardelliScience & Technology Editor - The spectacular success of NASA's twin Mars rovers is due obviously to the skills and determination of the scientists and engineers involved in the mission, but luck also contributed to an amazing degree.
Pasadena - Oct. 16, 2000 - The imaging team of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has doubled the number of Mars pictures available to the public with the release of a new archive of red planet pictures totally slightly more than 30,000 images.
Denver - Oct. 31, 2000 - U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists studying Mars have discovered minerals with profound implications for the past history of the planet. The mineral olivine, an iron-magnesium silicate that weathers easily by water, has been found in abundance on Mars. The presence of olivine implies that chemical weathering by water is low on the planet and that Mars has been cold and dry throughout its geologic history.
Ithaca - Oct. 24, 2001 - A collective sigh of relief could be heard around the corridors of Cornell University's Space Sciences Building late Tuesday night when the Mars Odyssey spacecraft went into orbit around Mars. The main reason for the jubilation: The small robotic spacecraft will be the key communications link for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission in 2003.
Paris (ESA) Dec 19, 2003 - One hundred years ago at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, on December 17 1903 Orville Wright made the world's first manned, powered and controlled flight by a heavier-than-air vehicle. His fourth flight of the day lasted fifty-nine seconds and he flew 259 metres.
Cameron Park - Sept. 12, 2000 - NASA has now essentially decided -- in accord with the recommendations of most of the participants at last July's Houston conference on Concepts and Approaches in Mars Exploration -- that the form of the Mars program needs to be drastically changed, in the direction of extensive reconaisssance of the planet before landing sites are picked out for unmanned sample-return missions, But what should the details of the new program be?
London (ESA) April 9, 2001 - If you live in Europe, there's almost certainly a research institute or industrial company near you that is contributing materials or expertise to Mars Express, Europe's first mission to the Red Planet.
Pasadena - Sept. 22, 2000 - Dr. Serguei M. Pershin PhD, a Principal Investigator for the NASA Mars Polar Lander LIDAR experiment, Russia's first experiment on a US spacecraft claims he has discovered organic pigments on Mars relating to ancient photosynthetic organisms.
Los Angeles - Oct. 25, 2001 - Hard working volunteers skilled in the use of hand and power tools are needed to assist in the construction of the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS).
Pasadena - 18 October 2001 - The $297 million Martian Odyssey spacecraft is on its way to a date with the Red Planet. At a pre-arrival briefing Thursday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Odyssey team members said that the spacecraft is ready to fire its main engine and begin aerobreaking into Mars orbit on October 23rd.
Flagstaff - Jan. 17, 2001 - Some channels visible on the surface of Mars may have been gouged by ice, rather than by catastrophic flooding, as is generally believed.
Paris (ESA) Nov 25, 2002 - The Ferrari Red Paint will not be the only thing breaking all speed records when it hurtles towards the Red Planet on-board the Mars Express spacecraft in 2003. The spacecraft itself has already broken some speed records of its own. Mars Express is the fastest-built satellite of its type in the history of space engineering.
Pasadena - Sol 6-A, 2004 - Within 24 hours after Pathfinder landed on Mars in 1997, NASA scientists had pinpointed its landing site. Spirit's story is a bit different. Spirit landed six days ago, but scientists are still struggling to figure out exactly where.
Paris (ESA) July 04, 2002 - Blinding dust storms can seriously ruin your plans for a landing on Mars. ESA is adapting the global climate models that we use to forecast our weather on Earth for the turbulent conditions that Mars offers its future visitors.
