Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 23, 2004 - What can the Mars rovers do after reaching Endurance Crater and the Columbia Hills. Principal investigator Steve Squyres talked with Astrobiology Magazine what's next: Can Opportunity drive five more kilometers to Victoria Crater, while being commanded by dedicated graduate students? He introduces two tiny vehicles to a big planet where the work is never done.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2004 - Spirit remains in excellent health and has survived more than 300 martian days on the red planet. With the Sun still relatively low on the horizon in the early spring season on Mars, rover drivers are forced to seek driving routes that keep the rover and its solar panels tilted northward for energy reasons.
Paris (ESA) Nov 18, 2004 - This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows the detailed structure of Coprates Catena, a southern part of the Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2004 - While the current generation of Mars missions seek out the planet's water history, another line of evidence is also required for life: heat. Active surface volcanoes may not currently exist on Mars, but the red planet has a colorful volcanic past and some enormous lava tubes that may bring polar ice to a liquid bubble.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2004 - Since the earliest planetary landers, much attention has been paid to the biological implications of returning extraterrestrial samples back to Earth. The moon rocks led to the creation of NASA's Planetary Protection Office to oversee any possible cross-contamination issues. But less attention has been paid to the mineralogical implications of sample returns: what happens if the rocks themselves change during their trip to Earth?
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 12, 2004 - This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, are among Europe's highest-resolution pictures so far of the Martian moon Phobos.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 12, 2004 - Operators of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity have determined that a proposed route eastward out of Endurance Crater is not passable, so the rover will backtrack to leave the crater by a southward route, perhaps by retracing its entry path.
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.
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.
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.
