Pasadena - Oct 21, 2001 - NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is carrying a suite of scientific instruments designed to tell us what makes up the Martian surface, and provide vital information about potential radiation hazards for future human explorers.
Pasadena - Oct 19, 2001 - After 200 days of travel and more than 460 million kilometers (about 285 million miles) logged on its odometer, NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft will fire its main engine for the first and only time Oct. 23 and put itself into orbit around the red planet.
Adelaide - Oct 18, 2001 - Mars Society Australia announced today that the media and general public will be able to meet members of their Project Jarntimarra expedition, before they depart later this month to scout for Mars-like locations in the Australian outback. A highlight will be the rare opportunity to meet high-profile NASA space scientists Dr Carol Stoker and Dr Larry Lemke, both of whom work on Mars-related projects aimed at getting humans to the Red Planet.
Tucson - Oct 16, 2001 - University of Arizona space scientists are inviting the public to join them on campus at a special open house at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. next Tuesday, Oct. 23, as the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft arrives at Mars.
Tempe - Oct 14, 2001 - When NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft reaches Mars on October 23, Arizona State University geologist Philip Christensen will be as nervous as a scientist can be, watching a critical experiment enter a key phase. He has an important instrument aboard the spacecraft which is entering a difficult stage in its journey and all he can do is sit and watch television, waiting for word of success or failure.
Pasadena - Oct 14, 2001 - Following a s final planned course correction, NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is on perfect target to enter Martian orbit later this month at 7:26pm Pacific time Oct. 23 (0226 UT Oct. 24).
Baltimore - Oct 11, 2001 - A pair of eagle-eyed NASA spacecraft -- the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Hubble Space Telescope -- are giving amazed astronomers scientists a ringside seat to the biggest global dust storm seen on Mars in several decades.
Bradford - Oct 10, 2001 - University of Bradford PhD student Emma Newton is playing a part in helping NASA's planned exploration of Mars which many people hope will lead to discovering life on the planet.
Melbourne - Oct 10, 2001 - In early August some eighty international scientists from around the world met in August in Houston, Texas, at the NASA-sponsored GeoMars conference to discuss current and future missions to the Red Planet and instruments, data and observations relevant to the subsurface distribution of volatiles.
Tucson - Oct 9, 2001 - An enormous ancient drainage basin and aquifer system lies hidden and deformed in one of the most geologically dynamic landscapes on Mars, scientists conclude from a comprehensive, more than 10-year study.
Seattle - Oct 7, 2001 - Pendragon Pictures' principals are concerned over a rumor that production of War of the Worlds is about to resume on October 8th. Director Timothy Hines expresses dismay at the rumor, It is absolutely not true that War of the Worlds is about to resume.
Tempe - Oct 4, 2001 - TES is both an instrument and a technique. The Thermal Emission Spectrometer is a scientific instrument that first flew aboard the Mars Observer spacecraft. Following the loss of that spacecraft, TES was rebuilt and launched along with five of the original seven Mars Observer instruments aboard the new Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The purpose of TES is to measure the thermal infrared energy (heat) emitted from Mars. This technique, called thermal emission spectroscopy, can tell us much about the geology and atmosphere of Mars. TES data will provide the first detailed look at the composition of Mars.
Pasadena - October 3, 2001 - NASA has selected Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, to build the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft scheduled for launch in August 2005 to return the highest resolution images yet of the Red Planet.
Orlando - August 31, 2001 - When we make it to Mars, there's an excellent chance that we will find a vast, easy-access watering hole to help sustain life on the Red Planet.
Paris - Aug 27, 2001 - Geologists poring over the latest images from Mars keep on turning up new and tantalising evidence that water once flowed freely on the planet's surface -- and may still flow from time to time. If their interpretation is right, underground aquifers or ice layers should be commonplace on the planet. Yet no spacecraft flown so far has been capable of identifying them.
City Of Industry - Aug 27, 2001 - Tecstar Inc. reported that its recently announced TEC 3i solar cell has been selected to power NASA JPL's latest mars exploration spacecraft and robotic rover vehicle.
