Washington - October 8, 2000 - In case you haven¿t heard, the Mars Millennium Project is continuing for a second year. There¿s still time to get your project on the microchip for launch on a future NASA mission. The second year project submission deadline is June 1, 2001.
Pasadena - October 5, 2000 - At the beginning of its fourth year in orbit, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has snapped a picture-postcard view of three Martian valleys that is now available on the Internet and on NASA Television.
San Diego - October 2, 2000 - Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the mysteriously high salt concentrations in exposed soils of Antarctica's Dry Valleys are due in large part to biological sulfur emissions in the oceans surrounding the continent.
San Diego - August 1, 2000 - Intense ultraviolet radiation that pierces Mars' thin atmosphere produces an abundance of oxygen ions, a common free radical, at the Martian surface that destroys organic molecules - - the building blocks of life -- according to researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Cameron Park - July 27, 2000 - Find liquid water on Mars, and life may not be far behind. Many scientists believe that this water can only exist thousands of metres beneath the planet's surface. So a team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is developing a robotic mole that can drill deep into Mars and return samples to the surface through a tube that it constructs as it digs.
