Stevenage - Oct 19, 2002 - The Beagle 2 Mars lander passed a key test Friday when Astrium Space conducted a drop test of the parachute system from a balloon platform as the last in a series of comprehensive tests.
Houston - Oct 18, 2002 - Ever since the first spacecraft rocketed beyond Earth, children around the world have dreamed of exploring space. The LEGO Company and The Planetary Society, the largest nonprofit organization dedicated to the exploration of our solar system, are about to make that dream come true.
Los Angeles - Oct 09, 2002 - One of the highest-resolution images ever obtained from the red planet-- a view of gullies in a crater in the Newton Basin-- is among an astounding group of 18,812 images being added to NASA's Mars Global Surveyor online image gallery today.
Pasadena - Oct 08, 2002 - NASA last week released the first set of data taken by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft to the Planetary Data System, which will now make the information available to research scientists through a new online distribution and access system.
New York - Oct 08, 2002 - The use of robots to help people has proceeded at a more or less steady clip since the first Unimation Robot was installed on a diecasting operation in the 1950's by the legendary Joe Engleberger.
Manassas - Sep 26, 2002 - Flying 100,000 feet above the Oregon coast yesterday, a new kind of aircraft demonstrated the readiness of robotic airplane technology for Mars exploration.
Providence - Sep 26, 2002 - Orbit affects climate on Mars similar to the way it affects climate on Earth, say three scientists, who used a model of climate change on Earth to explain the layers of deposits in the polar regions of the Red Planet.
Vancouver - Sep 23, 2002 - Allan Rock, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency, announced today the awarding of a $400,000 contract to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) of Richmond, B.C., to support the Canadian Space Agency in defining Canada's contribution to European missions to Mars, and the NASA-led Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Los Angeles - Sep 16, 2002 - Meanwhile, the other two 2007 Mars missions -- to be flown by France and Italy in direct junior-partner connection with NASA's Mars program -- are also in very serious trouble.
Leicester - Sep 11, 2002 - A multitude of arguments supporting the possible existence of life on Mars have surfaced after the discovery and examination of the ALH84001 meteorite. The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found within, plus detailed examination of the ratios of certain metabolites, all have various interpretations supporting or opposing their organic origin.
Moffett Field - Aug 26, 2002 - Scientists preparing for NASA's next Mars mission, the twin Mars Exploration Rovers scheduled for launch in June and July 2003, are now able to view more than 44,000 high-resolution images of Mars collected by the Mars Global Surveyor. Some show detail at less than three meters per pixel.
Fayetteville - Aug 26, 2002 - Using a unique device known as the Andromeda Chamber to simulate conditions found on Mars, University of Arkansas researchers discovered that certain microorganisms called methanogens could grow at low pressures.
Huntsville - Aug 22, 2002 - Day had broken, cold and reddish, exceedingly cold and reddish from dust suspended in Mars's thin atmosphere, when the explorer climbed the inner crater wall. It was a steep wall and even in four-tenths Earth gravity his spacesuit was cumbersome. No wonder he slipped.
Houston - Aug 22, 2002 - In the latest study of a 4.5 billion-year-old Martian meteorite, researchers have presented new evidence confirming that 25 percent of the magnetic material in the meteorite was produced by ancient bacteria on Mars. These latest results were published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Pasadena - Aug 20, 2002 - So again, less than 18 months before launch, in January 2002, the MER project decided to look into designing and adding a second Descent Imager Motion Estimation Subsystem warning sensor to the TIRS system.
Pasadena - Aug 20, 2002 - With less than a year to go before the launch of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, scientists have spent the last few weeks at a high-tech summer camp, rehearsing their roles for when the spacecraft take center stage.
