Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 16, 2004 - On sol 179, Spirit woke up at a new location and spent the day performing remote sensing with the miniature thermal emission spectrometer, including an overnight observation.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 15, 2004 - NASA scientists are modifying a sensor so it could look for signs of martian life by reading data from a soil-burrowing 'mole' capsule.
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jul 13, 2004 - Mars Society founder, Robert Zubrin, talks about how to terraform the red planet. His engineer's eye reveals his robust plans for not just getting to a new home, but also how to build one from scratch.
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jul 12, 2004 - Mars is a dusty place and some of that dust is highly magnetic. Magnetic minerals carried in dust grains may be freeze-dried remnants of the planet¿s watery past.
Pasadena (JPL) Jul 12, 2004 - The world gets to see the rusty, dusty martian terrain as if humans themselves were riding atop the rovers. Who's responsible for our front-row seats on Mars? The masterminds working tirelessly behind the scenes in the Multimission Image Processing Lab (MIPL) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Pasadena (JPL) Jul 12, 2004 - Spirit's right front wheel is having arthritis problems, says Firouz Naderi, Mars Exploration Program Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Pasadena (JPL) Jul 12, 2004 - Jim Graf has his sights set on a target 100 million miles away. Sometimes it's closer. Sometimes it's farther. Mars. The target is moving. So is he.
Pasadena (JPL) Jul 12, 2004 - On sol 175 (July 9), Spirit analyzed the new targets Breadbox and Sourdough with its panoramic camera and miniature thermal emission spectrometer. Spirit then got an up-close look at Breadbox with the microscopic imager, and deployed the M¿ssbauer spectrometer on Sourdough for an overnight integration.
Paris (ESA) Jul 09, 2004 - These images of the rim of the Hellas basin on Mars were obtained by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft.
Pasadena (JPL) Jul 08, 2004 - Sol 154 consisted of Opportunity completing activities on the target Kettlestone, including a long Moessbauer integration, some microscopic images and placement of the arm for a little early morning alpha particle X-ray spectrometer integration to occur on the morning of Sol 155. The rover then went to sleep.
Pasadena (JPL) Jul 07, 2004 - On sol 171, Spirit continued its investigation in Hank's Hollow and the rock target Pot-of-Gold. The rober successfully completed observations of the abraded area with the microscopic imager and alpha particle X-ray spectrometer. On sol 172, Spirit looked at the sky with the miniature thermal emission spectrometer and panoramic camera. The rover also acquired some thermal inertia observations of nearby soil with the miniature thermal emission spectrometer.
At a NASA-sponsored briefing for journalists last December, scientists with the Mars Exploration Rover missions described the various hazards that could cut…
Pasadena - Jul 06, 2004 - After a long trek across the floor of Gusev Crater, NASA's Spirit rover arrived late last month at the base of the Columbia Hills. Scientists believe that the hills are older than the surrounding plain, and holds clues to Gusev's more-distant past. In this exclusive interview with Astrobiology Magazine, Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the rover mission, discusses why the hills are important, what is known about them so far, and what remains to be puzzled out.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 02, 2004 - On Sol 150, Opportunity completed Moessbauer spectrometer observations in the rock abrasion tool hole on the rock Tennessee (hole number 3). The rover then stowed its arm, drove 0.55 meters (1.8 feet) backwards, turned to 40 degrees and then drove 1 meter (3.3 feet) forward.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 02, 2004 - On sol 167, Spirit looked at a bit of soil called Jaws with the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer and microscopic imager. Then the rover completed a drive intended to put it into position to analyze Pot-of-Gold with the instruments on its robotic arm.
Ann Abor MI (SPX) Jun 30, 2004 - Research aimed at teasing apart the workings of RNA enzymes eventually may lead to ways of monitoring fat metabolism and might even assist in the search for signs of life on Mars, according to University of Michigan researcher Nils Walter.
