Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 26, 2005 - Spirit completed a campaign of using the tools on its robotic arm to examine the feature Cliffhanger. Spirit scuffed the soil using its wheels in the area around Cliffhanger, and then observed both the scuffed and undisturbed soil.
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 26, 2005 - ESA's Mars Express mission has been extended by one Martian year, or about 23 months, from the beginning of December 2005.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 23, 2005 - Ready to be amazed? Step outside tonight around midnight and look east. About halfway up the sky you'll see the planet Mars. It looks like an intense red star (as photographed here on Sep 8 by Stan Richard in rural Jasper County, Iowa), the brightest light in the midnight sky other than the Moon.
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 23, 2005 - ESA's Mars Express mission has been extended by one Martian year, or about 23 months, from the beginning of December 2005. The decision, taken on 19 October by ESA's Science Programme Committee, allows the spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet to continue building on the legacy of its own scientific success.
Saint Louis MO (SPX) Sep 23, 2005 - Led by WUSTL earth and planetary scientists, a large team of NASA scientists has detailed the first solid set of evidence for water having existed on Mars at the Gusev crater, the exploration site of the rover Spirit.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2005 - New gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 have appeared on a Martian sand dune. That's just one of the surprising discoveries that have resulted from the extended life of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which this month began its ninth year in orbit around Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 20, 2005 - Opportunity has resumed normal operations this week. The rover is healthy and making progress towards Erebus Crater. The rover team has been commanding Opportunity to drive every chance it gets. The last two sols this week have been remote sensing only, due to a lack of critical data.
Paris (ESA) Sep 20, 2005 - Following completion of its deployment on 17 June, MARSIS, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding onboard the ESA Mars Express spacecraft, has started collecting scientific data from the surface, the subsurface and the ionosphere of Mars.
Washington (AFP) Sep 20, 2005 - A NASA orbiter has detected a series of dynamic geological and thermal changes on the surface of the red planet, possibly caused by a Mars quake, mission scientists said on Tuesday.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2005 - I want to review some of the highlights that have come from recent missions, starting with the Mars Global Surveyor mission. I'm going to focus on three instruments:
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 19, 2005 - Spirit has continued observations on the top of Husband Hill, using the microscopic imager, alpha particle X-ray spectrometer and Moessbauer spectrometer on a target informally called Irvine.
Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 19, 2005 - It's been quite awhile since I've done one of these updates, but I'm now back in Ithaca and spending all my time on flight operations again... which feels really good!
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2005 - Taking advantage of extra solar energy collected during the day, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit settled in for an evening of stargazing, photographing the two moons of Mars as they crossed the night sky.
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 13, 2005 - ESA has started a technical investigation into the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on board Mars Express, after a problem developed in the instrument a few months ago.
Cambridge, England (UPI) Sep 13, 2005 - ESA's Mars Express space probe that entered orbit at the end of 2003 may have found evidence of a band of ice that once spanned the Martian equator.
Honolulu (UPI) Sep 12, 2005 - Hawaii's stark volcanic landscape that once served as a training ground for lunar astronauts might soon be a resource for Mars training.
