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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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) 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.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 30, 2005 - Opportunity continues to make slow progress through the sand dune, at a slip rate of roughly 99.5 percent. From the time Opportunity resumed driving after digging into the dune until May 26, drives totaling 64.8 meters (about 213 feet) of wheel rotations have been commanded and executed, producing 34.8 centimeters (1.1 feet) of forward progress.
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!)
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 30, 2005 - Spirit is healthy and power positive. Spirit is doing some remarkable science at Larry's Outcrop, moving along the edge of this spot that looks stereotypically Mars-like.
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.
Washington DC (SPX) May 25, 2005 - Mars is now a cold, dry desert, but robotic satellites and rovers have returned new evidence of a warmer and wetter climate more than 3.5 billion years ago, when conditions may have been more favorable for life.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2005 - NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is trying to escape from a sand trap, while its twin, Spirit, has been busy finding new clues to a wet and violent early Martian history.
