Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2005 - In his latest online updates MER Principal Investigator Steve Squyres reports on the conditions at Meridiani and the outlook for MER-B as the Mars Rover team search for route south or another destination.
London (UPI) Jun 09, 2005 - British lawmakers, upset over the ill-fated Beagle 2 project, say the nation's space program is not being adequately monitored and rapped its risk management.
London, UK (ESA) Jun 09, 2005 - Mars Express was flying 270 kilometers (168 miles) above the planet when SPICAM's field of view was positioned just above the limb, or edge, of the planet during the Aug. 11, 2004 orbit.
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 08, 2005 - Following in-depth analyses performed after the deployment of the first MARSIS antenna boom on board Mars Express, ESA has decided to proceed with the deployment of the second 20-metre antenna boom.
Dartmouth, UK (SPX) Jun 08, 2005 - Two Dartmouth researchers have weighed in on the debate over whether the presence of methane gas on Mars indicates life on the red planet. Mukul Sharma, Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences, and Chris Oze, a postdoctoral fellow, argue that the Martian methane could have been produced by inorganic processes just as easily as by bacteria.
Moscow (UPI) Jun 08, 2005 - Russia's federal space agency says it will display a full-scale Martian station at the Paris Air Show, which opens next week in Le Bourget, France.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2005 - Some hardy Earth microbes could survive long enough on Mars to complicate the search for alien life, according to a new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers.
Pasadena (JPL) Jun 07, 2005 - Engineers and mission managers for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission cheered when images from the Martian surface confirmed Opportunity had successfully escaped from a sand trap.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 04, 2005 - The Mars rover Opportunity has successfully escaped from a sand trap. JPL engineers cheered when images returned from Mars showed the rover's wheels were free. Engineers worked for nearly five weeks to carefully maneuver the rover out of the sand dune.
NASA has given the green light to a project to put a long-armed lander on to the icy ground of the far-northern Martian plains.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2005 - Spirit has been working on Mars for more than 500 sols! This week the rover completed its close-up observations of Larry's Outcrop and drove back toward Methuselah, looking for a passable way up to the summit. The rover will continue to drive around the perimeter of Husband Hill until it finds a good pathway.
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 02, 2005 - These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show a large depression called Iani Chaos and the upper reaches of a large outflow channel called Ares Vallis.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2005 - Spirit is the problem child, so to speak. It took us a lot longer to reach our science objectives with Spirit, but it's really coming into its own right now.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 31, 2005 - In January 2004, Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars. In May of 2004, four months into the expected three month mission, Nagin Cox gave a talk in this lecture series on the status of the rover mission.
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 30, 2005 - Earth is racing toward Mars at a speed of 23,500 mph, which means the red planet is getting bigger and brighter by the minute. In October, when the two planets are closest together, Mars will outshine everything in the night sky except Venus and the Moon. (You're another 50 miles closer: keep reading!)
Honolulu HI (SPX) May 30, 2005 - By using new, high spatial resolution infrared data from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, Victoria Hamilton from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Philip Christensen from Arizona State University have concluded that a region on the surface of Mars known to contain olivine-rich rocks is actually 4 times larger than previously estimated.
