Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 27, 2004 - If the martian canyon, Valles Marineris, were on Earth, it would stretch from New York to Los Angeles. It is the largest canyon in the solar system (more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) long with 5 to 10 kilometers (3 to 6 miles) relief from floors to tops of surrounding plateaus).
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2004 - Carol Stoker is the principal investigator for the Mars Analog Research and Technology Experiment (MARTE). MARTE has just begun its second field season drilling into the subsurface near the headwaters of the Rio Tinto in Spain, searching for novel forms of microbial life.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 22, 2004 - As NASA's Spirit and Opportunity resumed reliable contact with Earth, after a period when Mars passed nearly behind the sun, the space agency extended funding for an additional six months of rover operations, as long as they keep working.
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 21, 2004 - Recent analyses of ESA's Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of water vapour and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly overlap.
Washington (UPI) Sep 21, 2004 - The old saying that big things can come in small packages might be exactly appropriate for a tiny but explosive amount of data that researchers have produced concerning Mars.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2004 - Carol Stoker is the principal investigator for the Mars Analog Research and Technology Experiment (MARTE). MARTE has just begun its second field season drilling into the subsurface near the headwaters of the Rio Tinto in Spain, searching for novel forms of microbial life.
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).
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 20, 2004 - The Spirit rover is now in a safe place to continue daily science observations automatically throughout its solar conjunction period when engineers and scientists will be unable to send commands reliably to the rover.
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.
