Huntsville - Aug 26, 2003 - When astronauts first go to Mars, it'll be difficult for them to bring everything they need to survive. Even the first tentative explorations could last as long as two years--but spaceships can only carry a limited amount.
Paris - Aug 26, 2003 - On 27 August 2003, Mars is less than 56 million kilometres away -- approaching closer to our planet than it has done in over 60,000 years.
Tempe - Aug 26, 2003 - After a decades-long quest, scientists analyzing data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft have at last found critical evidence the spacecraft's infrared spectrometer instrument was built to search for: the presence of water-related carbonate minerals on the surface of Mars.
Baltimore - Aug 20, 2003 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) will make observations of the planet Mars on Aug. 26-27, when Earth and Mars will be closer together than they have been in the last 60,000 years.
Santa Barbara - Aug 12, 2003 - All the flight software aboard the two Mars Exploration Rover missions was written by engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) using software development tools from Green Hills Software.
Melbourne - Aug 11, 2003 - Giant hollow towers of ice formed by steaming volcanic vents on Ross Island, Antarctica are providing clues about where to hunt for life on Mars.
Boston - Aug 11, 2003 - Late in August the planet Mars -- the most Earthlike world known beyond our own -- will pass closer to Earth than it has done in nearly 60,000 years.
Huntsville - Aug 11, 2003 - The south polar ice cap of Mars is receding, revealing frosty mountains, rifts and curious dark spots.
Tucson - Aug 11, 2003 - In May 2008, the progeny of two promising U.S. missions to Mars will deploy a lander to the water-ice-rich northern polar region, dig with a robotic arm into arctic terrain for clues on the history of water, and search for environments suitable for microbes.
Toronto - Aug 01, 2003 - Canadian engineers and scientists are playing an increasingly important role in the search for water and life on Mars. Two missions with Canadian-made components are now en route to the Red Planet, and more ambitious Canadian involvement may ensue in 2007 and 2009.
Scottsdale - Aug 01, 2003 - Recent evidence of vast amounts of water ice on Mars supports the possibility of indigenous life. At the same time, that water could enable human settlement and massive environmental engineering, or terraforming. A moral conflict could face us soon, pitting Terrestrial life against the Martian. The course of action we choose should be informed by broad debate: the ethics, as much as the biology, of Mars deserves full exploration.
London - Aug 01, 2003 - Europe's leading space and satellite company, EADS Astrium, whose Stevenage-based engineers and technicians designed and built the Beagle 2 Mars Lander, today announced that it has become Beagle 2's first commercial sponsor. EADS Astrium's backing, worth over ¿1 million, is the first sponsorship of its kind in space exploration.
Beltsville - Aug 01, 2003 - Spherix Incorporated reported this week that recent data on the Martian surface sent by the Odyssey spacecraft will be interpreted as evidence for liquid water, life's most essential need, in a paper to be presented at the Astrobiology session of the SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) meeting in San Diego on August 4.
Pasadena - Jul 29, 2003 - Living too close to a neighbor may not be very appealing, but when Earth's neighboring red planet moves closer than it's been in 50,000 years, observers expect nothing but acclaim.
Los Alamos - Jul 25, 2003 - Breathtaking new maps of likely sites of water on Mars showcase their association with geologic features such as Vallis Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system.
Paris - Jul 24, 2003 - Is there life on other worlds or is planet Earth the only place in our Solar System where living organisms have evolved? ESA is inviting European and Canadian industry to participate in its exciting ExoMars mission in order to provide an answer to this age-old question.
