Paris (ESA) May 11, 2004 - These images were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express of the Acheron Fossae region, an area of intensive tectonic (continental 'plate') activity in the past.
Pasadena - May 06, 2004 - Scientists and engineers celebrated when they saw the first pictures NASA's Opportunity sent from the rim of a stadium- sized crater that the rover reached after a six-week trek across martian flatlands.
Houston TX (SPX) May 06, 2004 - The scientific debate over whether a meteorite contains evidence of past life on Mars continues to intensify, with colleagues of the team that announced the possibility in 1996 revealing new findings that may cast doubt on some of that earlier work.
Pasadena - May 06, 2004 - Spirit is now less than 1,600 meters away from the base of the Columbia Hills after three long sols of driving. Its odometer now reads currently reads over 1,660 meters (1.03 miles) and counting.
Pasadena (SPX) May 05, 2004 - According to a daily briefing note made available to SpaceDaily.com NASA's Mars Exploration Rover A - Spirit - is having communication problems. The current information available suggests the problems are not overly critical and can probably be fixed. However the root cause of the problem remains unknown.
Pasadena (JPL) May 04, 2004 - After a 50-meter (164-foot) drive on sol 94, which ended at 10:10 p.m. April 29 PDT, and the final approach of 17 meters (56 feet) on sol 95, which ended at 10:49 p.m. April 30 PDT, Opportunity arrived on the western rim of Endurance Crater and began surveying the spectacular new view.
Moffett Field (SPX) May 04, 2004 - From 200 million miles away on Mars, the European Beagle 2 lander was intended to send back a faint 5-watt signal. To acquire that miniscule signal could be compared to picking up a cellphone call if broadcast from Mars to Earth. That phone call was intended to as a Christmas greeting to scientists listening in after Beagle 2's expected December 25th touchdown.
Paris (ESA) Apr 30, 2004 - The MARSIS team has advised ESA to delay the deployment of the MARSIS radar instrument on board Mars Express, scheduled for this week.
Pasadena (JPL) Apr 29, 2004 - Both of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers have completed their originally planned mission and are tackling extra-credit assignments.
Washington - Apr 28, 2004 - The surface environment of Mars may not always have been so hostile to life. Early in the planet's history, the average temperature almost certainly was warmer and the atmosphere more dense, and liquid water may have existed at the surface.
Moffett Field - Apr 28, 2004 - NASA's Spirit Rover continues to take more panoramic images of the Columbia Hills as it progresses on its long trek across the Gusev Crater floor. Spirit is estimated to be approximately 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) and 52 sols away from its destination at the western base of the hills.
Moffett Field CA - Apr 27, 2004 - A new ground-based science planning support system developed for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission is helping NASA scientists create plans and program computer command sequences for the twin rovers' daily operations.
Pasadena (JPL) Apr 27, 2004 - After a successful weekend of driving on sols 108 and 109, Spirit kicked off its week with a 140-meter (459.3 feet) drive over sols 110 and 111 toward its destination at the base of the Columbia Hills.
Pasadena (JPL) Apr 26, 2004 - Spirit spent most of sol 106, which ended at 4:32 a.m. PDT on April 21, performing remote sensing on the inside of Missoula Crater. It acquired panoramic camera and mini thermal emission spectrometer panoramas and navigation camera images of the crater, along with some panoramic camera images looking back toward Bonneville crater.
Pasadena (JPL) Apr 26, 2004 - In his office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Optics Engineer Larry Scherr sits before a buzzing computer, sketching geometrical shapes on a sheet of graph paper. He is calculating lens shapes to control the path of light rays.
Pasadena (JPL) Apr 23, 2004 - Spirit spent most of sol 106, which ended at 4:32 a.m. PDT on April 21, performing remote sensing on the inside of Missoula Crater. It acquired panoramic camera and mini thermal emission spectrometer panoramas and navigation camera images of the crater, along with some panoramic camera images looking back toward Bonneville crater.
