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.
Paris -Jul 31, 2002 - A joint UK and European mission to find evidence of life on Mars took another giant leap forward last week when engineers started assembling the Beagle 2 lander.
Paris - Jul 24, 2002 - What is the fastest Ferrari's distinctive red paint has ever travelled? Next year it will be 10,800 km/h! Mars Express, to be launched in May/June 2003, the first European spacecraft to visit the Red Planet, will be speeding on its way accompanied by the very essence of Ferrari: a sample of its distinctive red paint.
Los Angeles - Jul 18, 2002 - From July 17 to 24, 2002, The Planetary Society will team up with NASA Ames Research Center, the SETI Institute, and MicroPilot to fly an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic in simulated Mars exploration.
Pasadena - July 4, 2002 - Five years ago on Friday, July 4, 1997, American flags dressed the nation in a giant Independence Day celebration. It was National Hot Dog Month, and an estimated 155 million hot dogs hit the grill that weekend alone. Space must have been on moviegoers minds, as the alien flick Men in Black took in a whopping $84 million during its holiday opening.
Berkeley - Jul 03, 2002 - Measurements of the ice temperature far below the South Pole suggest that a so-called lake discovered at the base of the ice is most likely permafrost - a frozen mixture of dirt and ice - because the temperature is too low for liquid water.
College Station - Jun 28, 2002 - Texas A&M University researcher Mark Lemmon has been selected as member of a science team for a mission to Mars next year.
Washington - Jun 24, 2002 - Geologists at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum have discovered a large former lake in the highlands of Mars that would cover an area the size of Texas and New Mexico combined, and which overflowed to carve one of that planet's largest valleys. The findings will appear in the June 21 issue of the journal Science.
Los Angeles - Jun 20, 2002 - Dr. Geoffrey A. Landis, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, thinks he knows what it takes to explore Mars. And the Agency believes him. Landis' proposal, Study of Solar Energy and Dust Accumulation on the Rovers, was one of 28 scientific studies of Mars recently selected by NASA for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission.
San Antonio -- June 19, 2002 - In late 2001, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) launched a major, two-year initiative to broaden its base of expertise in support of the NASA Mars program.
Pasadena - Jun 05, 2002 - NASA has selected 28 scientists for participation in the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission, including four from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The mission consists of two separate, though identical, rovers scheduled for launch in mid-2003 and arrival at separate destinations on Mars in early 2004.
Swindon - Jun 05, 2002 - Scientists at the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre are recreating the hostile environment found on Mars in their laboratory, with a device known as the Martian Environment Simulator (MES).
Pasadena - June 4, 2002 - Flight controllers for NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft completed the last major technical milestone today in support of the science mission by unfurling the boom that holds the gamma ray spectrometer sensor head instrument.
London - Jun 03, 2002 - The Wellcome Trust biomedical research charity has agreed to help finance the mass spectrometer which is central to Beagle 2 and is being pioneered by the group at the Open University led by Beagle 2 Lead Scientist Professor Colin Pillinger.
Los Alamos - Jun 03, 2002 - Researchers with the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have determined that Mars has enough water to sustain human exploratory missions.
London - Jun 03, 2002 - Researchers at Imperial College London have just begun a 5-year project to design and build tiny earthquake measuring devices to go to Mars on the 2007 NetLander mission.
