Pasadena (JPL) Jun 11, 2004 - During sols 148 through 151, Spirit advanced significantly closer to the Columbia Hills and now sits only 220 meters (722 feet) from its first target at the base, a location informally named Spur B.
Paris (ESA) Jun 10, 2004 - This images of fluvial surface features at Mangala Valles on Mars were obtained by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the ESA Mars Express spacecraft.
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jun 09, 2004 - By summer 2005, researchers in the Fluids Research Laboratory at Virginia Tech will be able to look for evidence of water on Mars by examining submicroscopic bubbles in martian meteorites, determine whether fluids and silicate melts trapped in volcanic rock can help predict future eruptions, and locate buried mineral deposits using data from surface rocks.
Pasadene (JPL) Jun 09, 2004 - NASA's Mars Opportunity rover began its latest adventure today inside the martian crater informally called Endurance. Opportunity will roll in with all six wheels, then back out to the rim to check traction by looking at its own track marks.
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2004 - Imagine having a modern biology lab on another planet. Then imagine putting that lab on a tiny silicon chip. That portable concept - when applied to detecting the building blocks of life, amino acids - is being investigated for future Mars missions.
Moffet Field (SPX) Jun 07, 2004 - Mars has only a faint atmosphere [less than one percent of terrestrial pressures], yet offers up its history of dust devils as swirling tracks in a remarkable landscape of wind-swept and carved terrain. These tiny twisters tend to appear in the middle afternoon on Mars, when solar heating is maximum and when warm air rises and collides with other pressure fronts to cause circulation.
Sacramento (SPX) Jun 07, 2004 - Next week promises to be a very eventful one in planetary exploration. Not only will Cassini fly within 2000 km of Saturn's enigmatic little captured moon Phoebe - the first time it has really revealed anything to human eyes - but both MER rovers will enter an entirely new phase of their exploration by arriving at destinations once thought impossible for them to reach, increasing our scientific understanding of Mars.
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jun 07, 2004 - A human geologist could productively cover a two-kilometer stretch of ground in perhaps an hour and a half. For a robotic geologist - NASA's Spirit rover - it takes a bit longer, more like a month and a half. Still, it's an impressive journey that will yield important scientific information.
Moscow (UPI) Jun 07, 2004 - A Russian scientist says manned Martian flights could render a male astronaut sterile, shrink his musculature and weaken his bones.
Moffet Field (SPX) Jun 07, 2004 - More than a month into bonus time after a successful primary mission on Mars, NASA's Spirit rover has sighted possibly layered rock in hills just ahead, while twin Opportunity has extended its arm to pockmarked stones on a crater rim to gather clues of a watery past.
Denver CO (SPX) Jun 07, 2004 - The venerable Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, completed its 25,000th orbit around Mars recently and is still going strong.
Pasadena (JPL) Jun 04, 2004 - NASA has decided the potential science value gained by sending Opportunity into a martian impact crater likely outweighs the risk of the intrepid explorer not being able to get back out.
Washington (UPI) Jun 04, 2004 - NASA mission controllers must make some key decisions as the twin Mars exploration rovers sit poised at critical junctures in their operational lives.
Evanston Ill (SPX) Jun 02, 2004 - A bowl of blueberries by the thousands, a rock called Lion Stone, dunes of red sand, the shoreline of a salty sea, wind-sculpted volcanic rock -- all of these features of the Martian landscape come to three-dimensional life for faculty and students when they don their 3-D glasses and step into the Visualization Laboratory at Northwestern University.
Pasadena (JPL) Jun 02, 2004 - More than a month into bonus time after a successful primary mission on Mars, NASA's Spirit rover has sighted possibly layered rock in hills just ahead, while twin Opportunity has extended its arm to pockmarked stones on a crater rim to gather clues of a watery past.
Pasadena (JPL) May 31, 2004 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its panoramic camera to take the images that make up this full-resolution mosaic of the Columbia Hills.
