Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 20, 2004 - This 360-degree view from a site dubbed Engineering Flats combines several frames taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during the rover's 182nd martian day, or sol (July 7, 2004).
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2004 - Perhaps the most famous of the martian meteorites was discovered at Allen Hills, Antarctica, and spawned a controversy about fossil-shapes and whether Mars could once have supported more favorable conditions than today.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 15, 2004 - On sol 215 Opportunity completed a reading with its Moessbauer spectrometer of a target called Kirchner, where a wire brush on the rover's rock abrasion tool had scrubbed a circular patch on the surface of a rock called Escher.
Paris (ESA) Sep 13, 2004 - This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows part of a heavily eroded impact crater at Solis Planum, in the Thaumasia region of Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 10, 2004 - Spirit is in safe place to continue daily science observations automatically throughout the solar conjunction period when engineers and scientists will be unable to send commands reliably to the rover.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 09, 2004 - To detect life on Mars, we have to devise instruments to recognize it and design them in such a way to get them to the Red Planet most efficiently, said Dr. Andrew Steele of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, a member of an international team* designing devices and techniques to find life on Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 08, 2004 - Spirit found a comfortable location on a rock outcrop and spent cold autumn days performing observations of a rock called Ebenezer with the rover's science instruments. Spirit finished observations of Ebenezer and moved over to the next location, Tikal, about nine meters (30 feet) away.
Paris (ESA) Sep 06, 2004 - The commanding of the Mars Express routine science operations through the Payload Operations Service at RAL in the UK is proceeding well, and the corresponding planning is being performed about 10 weeks ahead of the execution of scientific activities.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2004 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has resumed using its rock abrasion tool after a pebble fell out that had jammed the tool's rotors two weeks ago.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 02, 2004 - NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers continue to inch their way across the desert-like terrain of Mars. Meanwhile, back on Earth, group of scientists is preparing to send Zoe, a prototype of a newer rover, on a trek across the Chilean desert. Spirit and Opportunity are searching for signs of water; Zoe will search for signs of life.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2004 - During sols 219 through 223, Spirit completed science observations at the Clovis rock outcrop. So Spirit packed up and slowly moved on. Winter is approaching and temperatures continue to drop. Power is always a major concern as available energy fluctuates between 300 and 400 watt-hours per sol, but Spirit continues the quest, climbing ever higher into the Columbia Hills.
Paris (ESA) Aug 31, 2004 - These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show the southern part of Valles Marineris, called Eos Chasma.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2004 - Was Mars once a living world? Does life continue, even today, in a holding pattern, waiting until the next global warming event comes along? Many people would like to believe so. Scientists are no exception. But so far no evidence has been found that convinces even a sizable minority of the scientific community that the red planet was ever home to life.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 31, 2004 - Sol 204 was planned as a rather circuitous 6-meter (about 20-foot) traverse to the vicinity of a target called Shag on one side of a rock called Ellesmere. The route was necessary to avoid a significant rock hazard close to the rover's position.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 30, 2004 - At a rock called Clovis, the rock abrasion tool on NASA¿s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit cut a 9-millimeter (0.35-inch) hole during the rover's 216th martian day, or sol (Aug. 11, 2004).
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2004 - NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter begins working overtime today after completing a prime mission that discovered vast supplies of frozen water, ran a safety check for future astronauts, and mapped surface textures and minerals all over Mars, among other feats.
