Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 18, 2005 - Just ask any geologist. If you're studying the history of a planet and the life forms that may have lived on it, the really good places to look are rugged terrains like canyons and other areas where water, igneous activity, wind, and seismic rumblings have left their respective marks. Flat is not so good.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 17, 2005 - A new web site at Arizona State University provides the public and scientists live views of Mars. A scrolling panel that runs continually shows visual and infrared images of Mars as they are received from the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter spacecraft.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2005 - Last month, the Desert RATS (Research and Technology Studies) team spent two weeks roaming about on a cattle field near Flagstaff, Arizona. Their objective: test out advanced technology - space suits, an automated rover, communications equipment - that may be used some day on human missions to the moon and Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 12, 2005 - Opportunity is healthy and traveling westward around Erebus Crater. The rover is running in restricted sols, so the team is able to drive it only every other sol and has been doing so. On sol 601, Opportunity drove 34 meters (112 feet).
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2005 - Early in September, several dozen scientists and engineers converged on a cattle ranch in the high desert near Flagstaff, Arizona. They were there to participate in the eighth annual Desert RATS (Research and Technology Studies) field season. This year's research focused on the interaction between SCOUT, a testbed for exploring rover technologies, and two astronauts wearing different experimental spacesuits.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2005 - Spirit is healthy and still performing science in the summit area of Husband Hill. The rover has acquired a 360-degree panorama from the top of Husband Hill, and has performed remote sensing of other targets of interest. Spirit drove back down to the clean face of the rock outcrop called Hillary to find a good position to perform work with the robotic arm.
Mount Pleasant MI (SPX) Oct 07, 2005 - Microscopic life in lakes of southwestern Australia may provide keys to unlocking the secrets of past environments and the possibility of life on Mars.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 05, 2005 - We tested equipment that we are developing to look for life on Mars and discovered a rare and complex microbial community living in blue ice vents inside a frozen volcano, remarked Hans E.F. Amundsen of Physics of Geological Processes (PGP) at the University of Oslo, Norway, and leader of the international AMASE team.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2005 - Opportunity suffered a warm reboot last week. After the flight computer rebooted, the spacecraft went into safe mode. This error caused the team to miss two Odyssey passes.
Pasadena (SPX) Oct 03, 2005 - Spirit is healthy and has provided a spectacular view from the top of Husband Hill. The rover has acquired numerous panoramas from both the navigation camera and panoramic camera. Spirit took coordinated observations with the panoramic camera and the miniature thermal emission spectrometer, and observed the moons Phobos and Deimos at night.
Washington (UPI) Oct 03, 2005 - NASA scientists in Washington have stopped making predictions about the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity as the devices continue to navigate across Mars.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2005 - Until earlier this year, when President Bush announced an ambitious blueprint for space exploration, NASA had no plans to send humans back to the moon, or to Mars.
Silicon Valley CA (SPX) Sep 28, 2005 - NASA will showcase two intelligent robots on Monday, October 3, in the outdoor 'Marscape' at NASA Ames Research Center, located in California's Silicon Valley.
Altadena CA (SPX) Sep 28, 2005 - Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have, by now, spent almost two years on the surface of Mars. They traveled several miles each, frequently stopping and analyzing scientific targets with their cameras, spectrometers and other instruments to uncover evidence of liquid water on Mars in the past. Their mission is a smashing success for NASA.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 27, 2005 - Opportunity is healthy and continuing its drive toward Erebus Crater. Images taken last week show the interior of the crater. Plans for the next few sols are to get closer to the crater's edge and do extensive imaging.
Moffett Field (SPX) Sep 27, 2005 - The Mars Science Laboratory, to be launched in 2009, is regarded as a keystone mission that marks the transition to the next decade of exploration.
