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.
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 (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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
