Moscow ID (SPX) Apr 05, 2005 - To help a NASA rover eventually hunt for life on Mars, scientists are writing a chemical guidebook to aid the search for extraterrestrial life.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2005 - Spirit is heading toward the summit of Husband Hill. The rover has been making slow progress recently due to slippage on new, sandy terrain, but it is persevering to reach the target.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2005 - Sometimes Opportunity needs to stop and smell the roses ... uh, or the soil as the case may be. This week, the science team chose to examine the mineral content of the rippled ground before continuing the southward trek.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 05, 2005 - While the Spirit and Opportunity rovers continue to investigate Mars, scientists are already testing more advanced rovers for future missions.
Paris (ESA) Mar 30, 2005 - These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show part of the Medusa Fossae formation and adjacent areas at the highland-lowland boundary on Mars.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2005 - Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at the Ames Research Center, has long been investigating the coldest and driest places on Earth. These harsh environments - and the ability of life to adapt there - could point the way to finding life on Mars.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2005 - The detection of methane on Mars has generated a lot of speculation about what could possibly be producing it. Is it coming out of active volcanoes?
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2005 - Shifting glaciers and exploding volcanoes aren't confined to Mars' distant past, according to two new reports in the journal Nature.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 22, 2005 - After some accumulated dust was blown off of Spirit's solar panels on sol 420 (March 9, 2005), the rover has been producing over 800 watt-hours of energy per sol, about twice as much as before the solar-array cleaning event.
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 20, 2005 - This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows flow features most likely formed by glaciers or block glaciers.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 18, 2005 - After a long, sustained series of traverses (with a few stops along the way to see the sights) Opportunity has reached Vostok Crater. The rover began a set of in-situ measurements on the soil and rock of Vostok.
Providence RI (SPX) Mar 17, 2005 - Shifting glaciers and exploding volcanoes aren't confined to Mars' distant past, according two new reports in the journal Nature.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2005 - NASA has suspended use of one of the mineral-identifying tools on the Opportunity Mars rover while experts troubleshoot a problem with getting data from the instrument, the robot's miniature thermal emission spectrometer.
Pasadena CA (JPL) (SPX) Mar 16, 2005 - Opportunity took some time away from driving and explored a little crater it approached last week. Once the rover is done with the crater, plans call for continuing toward a larger crater, Vostok.
Paris (AFP) Mar 16, 2005 - Claims that life, or the potential for it, exists on Mars were boosted last Wednesday when scientists declared they saw the remains of a frozen sea on the planet's surface and speculated the ice may hold preserved organisms.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 15, 2005 - Spirit is in good health and is successfully using a new version of flight software. After completing an investigation of a rock dubbed Watchtower, Spirit is returning to a soil area of interest informally labeled Paso Robles.
