Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2004 - Opportunity's trek towards Burns Cliff continues. The journey has been much more difficult than anticipated. The rover has experienced drive slippage of up to 100 percent. The plan is to attempt a couple of sols of up-slope, switchback driving and then review options to get to Burns Cliff.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 08, 2004 - All the scientific tools on NASA's two Mars Exploration Rovers are still working well, a full 10 months after Spirit's dramatic landing. The ones on Spirit are adding fresh evidence about the history of layered bedrock in a hill the rover is climbing.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 05, 2004 - All the scientific tools on NASA's two Mars Exploration Rovers are still working well, a full 10 months after Spirit's dramatic landing.
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 04, 2004 - This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows the western end of the Valles Marineris Canyon system on Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 04, 2004 - Spirit employed its full instrument suite on Sols 285 through 291 to study Uchben, an interesting rock encountered on the way into the Colombia Hills. The engineering team continued to diagnose and study work-arounds for a problem with the steering brake relay.
London (AFP) Nov 3, 2004 - The British team behind the ill-fated Beagle 2 probe to Mars, which vanished without trace last December while attempting to land on the Red Planet, unveiled plans Wednesday for a possible successor mission.
London (AFP) Nov 02, 2004 - Beagle 2, the ill-fated British space probe that vanished while attempting to land on Mars, failed because the country's government wanted a mission to the Red Planet on the cheap, a report by lawmakers said Tuesday.
Irvine CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2004 - UC Irvine Monday announced that a researcher within The Henry Samueli School of Engineering has been awarded a contract with NASA, through the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to develop guidance algorithms aimed at pinpointing future Mars landers within 100 meters of the desired site.
Kingston RI (SPX) Nov 02, 2004 - When earthlings make their first attempt to land on Mars, E. Paul Larrat will be justified in thinking he played a small role in the 35-million-mile voyage.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2004 - Strings of depressions dotting the Martian landscape indicate that seismic activity - marsquakes - may still be reshaping the surface of the planet, according to Dr. David Ferrill of Southwest Research Institute in a paper published in the October 10 issue of GSA Today. These pit chains occur along dilational faults, partially filled or open cavities that served as conduits for past groundwater flow.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2004 - A view of the sundial-like calibration target on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, with a bit of martian terrain in the background, is the 50,000th image from the twin rovers that have been exploring Mars since January.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2004 - On Earth, gravity-driven south polar cap winds are termed catabatic winds. They are caused by the downward motion of cold air. Catabatic winds begin over the smooth expanse of the cap interior due to temperature differences between the atmosphere and the surface.
Montreal QC (SPX) Oct 29, 2004 - Mars Society Canada (MSC), in conjunction with CASI - Concordia University, held a successful night of Mars related presentations in Montreal on October 28, 2004.
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Oct 29, 2004 - A University of Michigan scientist is part of a European Space Agency team that has detected methane gas on Mars, the clearest indicator yet that there could be life there, said Sushil Atreya, professor and director of the Planetary Science Laboratory in the College of Engineering.
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 28, 2004 - Since the arrival of Mars Global Surveyor and more recently Mars Odyssey spacecrafts, a range of facts has revealed the existence of frozen water ice in the top meters of high latitudes near-surface (~60 deg - 90 deg) of both martian hemispheres. However, its origin was still unexplained.
New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 26, 2004 - Scientists in the department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University have devised a method to precisely date the timing and temperature of a meteorite impact on Mars that led to ejection of a piece of the planet into space and its eventual impact on Earth.
