Moffett Field CA (SPX) - May 12, 2005 - Mars rover engineers are using a testing laboratory to simulate specific Mars surface conditions where NASA's rover Opportunity has spun its wheels in a small dune.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 12, 2005 - After finishing robotic-arm work at a rock called Keystone in the Methuselah outcrop, Spirit backed off to image the rock with the panoramic camera and miniature thermal emission spectrometer.
Paris (ESA) May 10, 2005 - These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show the outlet channel of the Uzboi Vallis system into Crater Holden on Mars.
Paris (ESA) May 10, 2005 - The deployment of the second antenna boom of the Mars Express Sub-Surface Sounding Radar Altimeter (MARSIS) science experiment has been delayed pending investigation of an anomaly found during deployment of the first antenna boom.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 10, 2005 - This has been a long, hard week of testing. We tested with one mix of materials, decided it wasn't quite nasty enough, and then made the mix nastier and tested again. We tested getting the rover stuck and then unstuck in a bunch of different configurations, some of which we think were worse than the one we've gotten ourselves into on Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 09, 2005 - During the next couple of weeks, if all goes as planned, the martial arts champion of radar antennas will kickbox its way into space.
Paris(AFP) May 09, 2005 - A long-delayed attempt to deploy a water-searching radar aboard Europe's Mars Express spacecraft has run into fresh problems, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Monday.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 05, 2005 - There are a number of exoplanets which have been detected around other stars, and they are all giant planets like Jupiter. The question is, Are there any habitable worlds similar to ours? To answer this, it's crucial to see if there are other habitable planets in our solar system. And so we look at Mars.
Ithica NY (SPX) May 05, 2005 - We've made some substantial progress over the past week in getting ready to get Opportunity out of the drift that she's driven into. All the action so far has been on Earth, doing testing with the two rovers we have on this planet.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 04, 2005 - Spirit is in excellent health. The rover spent the week from April 22 to April 30 studying an outcrop called Methuselah, and focusing on the Keystone rock. Before Spirit drives away from this spot, it will have analyzed this feature with every tool in the science payload.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 03, 2005 - Opportunity used the spectrometers on its arm to examine the soil where the rover stayed for six sols, then resumed driving on sol 446. However, the drive ended after 40 meters when Opportunity was crossing a dune and dug into it. Engineers are using a test rover to evaluate options for getting off the dune.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 03, 2005 - The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has been orbiting Mars for over a year. While the high resolution images of the planet's many craters, volcanoes, and other features get the most notice, the spacecraft's seven instruments have also gathered large amounts of data about the planet's atmosphere, geology, and chemistry.
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 03, 2005 - The Opportunity team continues working with an engineering test rover on Earth to determine the safest way to attempt to drive the rover out of the dune where it's currently parked on Mars. In the meantime, Opportunity is collecting science data with its instruments and cameras.
Paris (ESA) May 02, 2005 - These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show part of Tithonium Chasma, a major trough at the western end of the Valles Marineris canyon on Mars.
France, Paris (ESA) May 02, 2005 - Following green light for the deployment of ESA's Mars Express radar, given in February this year, the radar booms are now planned to be deployed in the first half of May.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 2, 2005 - Planetary exploration proceeds by steps. Because life on Earth requires liquid water, the MER mission aimed to search for signs that liquid water existed on Mars in the past. MER has found such signs.
