Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 10, 2005 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is ready for a morning launch on Thursday, Aug. 11. The spacecraft will arrive at Mars in March 2006 for a mission to understand the planet's water riddles and to advance the exploration of the mysterious red planet.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 10, 2005 - Opportunity continues to make progress south toward Erebus crater. The rover planners are doing an excellent job keeping Opportunity safely within the confines of the ripple troughs and determining where the rover can cross from one ripple trough into another.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 10, 2005 - Spirit has been busy performing investigations with the tools on its robotic arm. It studied two targets on the rock dubbed Bourgeoisie, and did a small bump to Hausmann to take some microscopic images.
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 09, 2005 - NASA's next journey to Mars, scheduled to launch August 10 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, will include an advanced camera built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies for the University of Arizona.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2005 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, set to launch on August 10, will search for evidence that liquid water once persisted on the surface of Mars. This orbiter also will provide detailed surveys of the planet, identifying any obstacles that could jeopardize the safety of future landers and rovers.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2005 - Are microbes making the methane that's been found on Mars, or does the hydrocarbon gas come from geological processes? It's the question that everybody wants to answer, but nobody can. What will it take to convince the jury?
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 09, 2005 - The next American mission to Mars is set to launch from Florida soon to examine the red planet in the sharpest detail, yet.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2005 - Terraforming was once solely the province of science fiction. In the 1930s, Olaf Stapledon wrote of electrolyzing a global sea on Venus in order to prepare it for human habitation in Last and First Men. Jack Williamson coined the term terraforming in the 1940s in a series of short stories.
It'll have to be a quick one this week. Spirit is just wrapping up work in the Voltaire region.
Paris (ESA) Aug 08, 2005 - Marsis, the sounding radar onboard ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, is collecting the first data about the surface and ionosphere of Mars.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 08, 2005 - Anxiety can be a good thing. It alerts you that something may be wrong, that danger may be close. It helps initiate signals that get you ready to act. But, while an occasional bit of anxiety can save your life, constant anxiety causes great harm.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 03, 2005 - A lot of the action was here on Earth last week. The science team for this mission has been together for about a decade, and during the first eight months after we landed we were all living and working together in Pasadena.
Mars (SPX) Aug 02, 2005 - Opportunity continued its trek south toward Erebus Crater, making 61 meters (200 feet) of progress over two sols of driving. The rover is approaching greater quantities of outcrop as it heads south, and the team is excited at the possibility of using the robotic arm before reaching Erebus.
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 29, 2005 - These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA¿s Mars Express spacecraft, show a patch of water ice sitting on the floor of an unnamed crater near the Martian north pole.
Sydney (AFP) Jul 28, 2005 - Australian scientists are planning to build a space station in the remote outback to simulate the conditions future human explorers could face on Mars. Mars Society Australia says the station will be the final step in a worldwide experiment which has seen similar projects set up in the Canadian Arctic, the Utah desert and Iceland.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2005 - In trying to understand the Mars-shaking news about methane on the Red Planet, astrobiologists look, as usual, to the home planet for instruction. The 1700 parts per billion (ppb) of methane in Earth's atmosphere is almost entirely produced by biology. Less than 1 percent comes from non-biological (abiogenic) processes, such as volcanism.
