Paris - Dec 11, 2003 - After a journey of 400 million km, ESA's Mars Express is now approaching its final destination. On 19 December, the spacecraft is scheduled to release the Beagle 2 lander it has been carrying since its launch on 2 June.
Los Alamos - Dec 09, 2003 - Mars may be going through a period of climate change, new findings from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter suggest.
Tokyo (AFP) - Dec 08, 2003 - Japan's trouble-plagued first mission to Mars is set to be abandoned in the latest of a series of costly failures to hit the country's space development programme, news reports and officials said Monday.
Paris - Dec 04, 2003 - Mars Express, ESA's first probe to Mars, still has some challenges to face. The spacecraft has successfully come through its first power test after the gigantic solar flare on 28 October.
A European Space Agency (ESA) mission that will arrive at Mars this month has American participants, and Europeans are team members for two NASA spacecraft that will reach Mars in January.
Huntsville - Dec 04, 2003 - The ideal technology for space travel would be simple, robust, reliable, lightweight, and volumetrically efficient. It would have no moving parts, which would make it less likely to break. It would be a passive technology, not requiring any energy from the outside. It would be small. It would be light. An ideal technology for space, says chemical engineer Doug Way, is the membrane.
Pasadena - Dec 03, 2003 - NASA'S robotic Mars geologist, Spirit, embodying America's enthusiasm for exploration, must run a grueling gantlet of challenges before it can start examining the red planet. Spirit's twin Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, also faces tough Martian challenges.
Paris - Dec 01, 2003 - The Mars Express spacecraft, despite a series of intense solar flares that occurred late October-early November in active sunspots regions, is in good health and is operating normally.
Moffett Field - Nov 25, 2003 - In an Interview with Bill Hartmann NASA's Astrobiology Magazine talks to one of the original scientists who had the opportunity to explore Mars through the eyes of our early robot explorers.
Washington - Nov 24, 2003 - Herbert Hoover reputedly wanted a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot. Woodruff Sullivan would settle for a sundial in every backyard.
Tokyo - Nov 24, 2003 - It has been reported that Nozomi the Japanese made Mars exploration probe is to collide with Mars. This is not correct. The truth is that Nozomi will, if going as it is, approach Mars on December 14 by 894km passing above Martian surface at its closest approach, but there would not be excluded a theoretical possibility of colliding with Mars by more or less one percent, if we take the error of orbit determination into account.
Pasadena - Nov 20, 2003 - NASA's Spirit spacecraft made its third trajectory correction maneuver on Friday, Nov. 14, fine tuning its flight path toward Mars with an engine-firing operation planned into the seven-month trip.
San Diego - Nov 17, 2003 - Newly seen details in a fan-shaped apron of debris on Mars may help settle a decades-long debate about whether the planet had long-lasting rivers instead of just brief, intense floods.
Los Angeles - Nov 17, 2003 - In a little over one month, the British built Beagle 2 exobiology lander will look for signs of extinct or extant life on the surface of Mars. Not since NASA's Viking mission 27 years ago has another search for life on Mars been attempted.
Tokyo - Nov 14, 2003 - Japan's leading national daily the Yomiuri Shimbun is reporting that the ill fated Nozomi explorer that is Japan's first Mars probe, is expected to crash into the red planet on Dec. 14 if it remains on its current course.
Paris - Nov 13, 2003 - What is the next best thing to humans landing on Mars and exploring the wonders of the Red Planet? The answer: touching, imaging and analysing carefully preserved samples of Martian rock in a state-of-the-art laboratory on Earth.
