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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 08, 2005 - Perched on the crest Husband Hill, Spirit took images for a summit panorama and used instruments on the robotic arm to investigate soil targets.
St Louis MO (SPX) Sep 08, 2005 - A large team of NASA scientists, led by earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis details the first solid set of evidence for water having existed on Mars at the Gusev crater, exploration site of the rover Spirit.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 08, 2005 - Recovery from the sol 563 power-off event is well underway. Each sol, the team has planned one new activity. By sol 570 (Aug. 31, 2005), the rover had successfully performed observations with the panoramic camera, navigation camera, and miniature thermal emission spectrometer and had completed a short alpha particle X-ray spectrometer integration (with the robotic arm stowed) and a 6.5-meter (21-foot) blind drive.
Paris (ESA) Sep 08, 2005 - These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show the Biblis Patera volcano, located in the western part of the Tharsis rise on Mars.
Cambridge, England (AFP) Sep 08, 2005 - Just half a lifetime ago, Mars was seen as Earth's sister, a future home-from-home, possibly also a rival -- the Red Planet, where loathsome aliens plotted invasions of our home. Then, in the 1960s, came the hammer blow.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 08, 2005 - The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera is rocketing toward Mars, and it's no leisure cruise for the camera operations team at The University of Arizona campus in Tucson either. The team turned the HiRISE camera on Friday, September 2.
Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Sep 08, 2005 - Rust-colored sand sifts through gloved hands as he slips the soil into a pouch - a travel souvenir. Standing, the suited explorer recharges his air tank, looks across the rocky landscape and imagines colonization on distant lands.
