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Mars Experiment To Push Mental Endurance To The Limit
Paris (AFP) June 20, 2007You are in the vanguard of humanity, aboard a spaceship to Mars with five other men and women. For more than 17 months, with the perilous void surrounding your tiny refuge, the six of you will share the work and the heroics, battling emergencies, equipment glitches and other hazards on this pioneering mission. But you will also share your personal habits and prejudices... your body odours. ... more Spirit Gets A Solar Panel Spring Clean 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 20, 2007Spirit got a second spring cleaning on Mars with a dust-cleaning event that increased power from the rover's solar arrays by 120 watt-hours (a 100-watt light bulb that burns for one hour uses 100 watt-hours of electricity). Spirit previously experienced dust-lifting winds in 2005. Energy from the rover's solar arrays is now higher than 600 watt-hours. After completing scientific studies ... more ESA Wants Space Pioneers For 520-Day Mars Experiment 
Le Bourget, France (AFP) June 19, 2007The European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday called for applications for one of the most demanding human experiments in space history: a simulated trip to Mars in which six "astronauts" will spend 17 months in an isolation tank on Earth. Their spaceship will comprise a series of interlocked modules in an research institute in Moscow, and once the doors are closed tight, the volunteers will be cut ... more Mars 2013: Beyond The Lab 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2007As I noted in a recent story, NASA is continuing to adjust the details of its near-future Mars exploration program -- and it has just taken another step to do so. The latest fine-tuning involves the mission now planned for the 2013 Mars launch window. This is the mission that will follow this year's Phoenix lander to study mars' northern permafrost; the very ambitious 2009 Mars Surface ... more Voyage To The Giant Asteroids Marks Dawn Of New Planetary Exploration Phase 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 18, 2007The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is like the solar system's cluttered old attic. The dusty, forgotten objects there are relics from a time long ago, each asteroid with its own story to tell about the solar system's beginnings. These are stories planetary scientists want to hear. Much is still unknown about our solar system's distant past. We learn the basic story in school ... more |
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Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2007Berkeley geophysicists claim that a new study demolishes one of the key arguments against the past presence of large oceans on Mars. Even from Earth, a large plain surrounding the planet's north pole looks like a sediment-filled ocean basin. In the 1980s, Viking spacecraft images revealed two possible ancient shorelines near the pole, each thousands of kilometers long with features like those found in Earth's coastal regions. ... more Opening The Hatch On The Mars Underground 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2007As I mentioned in my last chapter, we have now definitely found the first caves on another world -- cave openings on the slopes of Arsia Mons ("Mt. Arsia", the southermost of the four great Tharsis shield volcanoes). These are volcanically-produced caves, rather than caves produced by water erosion or by the chemical erosion of minerals that can be produced by acidic water. They must be one of ... more Down The Hatch On Mars 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2007Our explorations of the Solar System so far have yet to turn up the really big prize -- evidence of life on another world -- but they have revealed one amazing nonliving surprise after another. Last month, we finally got airtight confirmation of something we've been looking for some time: the first caves seen on another world. ... more Spirit Studies Layered Rocks At Home Plate 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2007Having completed studies of bright, silica-rich soil deposits at a target known as "Gertrude Weise," Spirit drove to a perch on the eastern edge of the circular, plateau-like feature known as "Home Plate" and began studying its stratigraphy. Spirit will next drive back in the direction of Gertrude Weise to study another nearby outcrop. The nearby outcrop, known as "Nancy Warren," appears ... more |
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Cameron Park CA (SPX) Jun 06, 2007The latest in a whole series of reports by NASA's scientific advisory groups on how to explore Mars has just been released ("An Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars", written by a committee assembled by NASA a year ago) has just been released by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council. Over the last few years, as new scientific information on Mars has finally ... more HiRISE Releases Thouands Of New Images Of Mars Via New Website Viewer 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 05, 2007Anyone connected by Internet can now see planet Mars better than at any time in history, through the eye of HiRISE, the most powerful camera ever to orbit another planet. A University of Arizona-based team that runs the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has just released more than 1,200 Mars images to the Planetary Data System, the U.S. space ... more Restricted Zone 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2007NASA plans to send humans back to the moon, and eventually to Mars. But humans and the food they eat are chock full of microbial contaminants. Figuring out how to keep that contamination in check is the job of Dr. Cassie Conley, NASA's acting planetary protection officer. In this, the third and final part of Astrobiology Magazine's interview with Conley, she explains that, sometimes, it's okay ... more Fourteen Space Agencies Sign Joint Exploration Agreement 
London UK (SPX) Jun 04, 2007In an unprecedented move, 14 of the world's leading space agencies revealed their agreed vision for globally co-ordinated space exploration to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Following months of intensive discussions, they published their common ideas for space exploration: The Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for Co-ordination. The document outlines the rationale for society to explore ... more
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