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Mars Rover Laser Tool Ready For Testing
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Jun 22, 2007Mars mission Job One: Get there. Job Two: Find rocks and zap them with your laser tool. Now learn the nature of the debris by spectrographically analyzing the ensuing dust and fragments. It's every kid's dream, vaporizing pebbles on other planets, and thanks to a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, it's going to happen. When the JPL-NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover launches in 2009, ... more Plan G For Mars Offers Much For Geological And Geophysical Exploration 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2007The third general type of Mars Science Orbiter mission proposed by the MSO science advisory group's just-published report is "Geological and Geophysical Exploration" ("Plan G"), which would focus -- as its name suggests -- on the actual features and processes on Mars' mineral surface, rather than on its atmosphere or on the structures of its polar caps and their connection to Mars' climate record ... more Exploring The Polar And Climatic Processes Of Mars 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2007Besides the possible "Atmospheric Signatures and Near-Surface Change" mission that I mentioned in my last installment, the "MEPAG" science team assigned to pick possible goals for NASA's big 2013 Mars Science Orbiter proposed two other general types of possible science mission for the craft. One is "Polar and Climate Processes" ("Plan P"). Mars' polar caps are among the most scientifically ... more 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 |
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London UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2007UK expertise and ongoing commitment to space exploration and Earth observation was showcased last week at an event in central London featuring Astrium's ExoMars rover prototype Bridget, new funding for UK ExoMars instruments and technology development and a UK centre to coordinate Earth observation. The event highlighted the leading scientific and industrial role the UK is playing in Europe ... more An Opportunity To Take A Captain Cook At Duck Bay 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 18, 2007Right now, Opportunity is safely perched on "Cape Verde" and is observing "Duck Bay" from above. The rover drove four out of the last five sols, covering 196.44 meters (644 feet). The fifth and final D-star (drive software) checkout step ran successfully on Opportunity on sol 1200. The dynamic path planner added in the latest flight software version is now ready for use. ... more Simulating The Effects Of Martian Dust On The Phoenix Lander 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jun 15, 2007Gusting winds and the pulsating exhaust plumes from the Phoenix spacecraft's landing engines could complicate NASA's efforts to sample frozen soil from the surface of Mars, according to University of Michigan atmospheric scientist Nilton Renno. Set to launch Aug. 3 from Florida, the $414 million Phoenix Mars Lander will use descent engines to touch down on the northern plains, where vast stores ... more Wandering Poles May Explain Ups And Downs Of Ancient Mars Shoreline 
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 |
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Fayetteville AK (SPX) Jun 11, 2007University of Arkansas researchers have tested the methane production of three different types of microorganisms in different soil types that resemble those found on Mars to test the possibility of these soils harboring life. Tim Kral, professor of biological sciences at the University of Arkansas; Heaven A. Kozup of Gwynedd-Mercy College in Pennsylvania, and UA graduate student ... more Taking The Opportunity To Evaluate New Driving Capabilities 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2007Opportunity performed on sol 1194 a Visual Target Tracking (VTT) technology checkout (drive software) on a target called "Paloma." This VTT checkout tested VTT in combination with other drive software, Autonav and Visodom. The first segment was a blind (no Autonav or Visodom) VTT drive to back away from the target. The second segment combined VTT and Visodom to drive towards the target. ... more THEMIS Marks Milestone In Imaging Mars 
Tempe, AZ (SPX) Jun 08, 2007The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter marked a milestone May 4. An image from THEMIS showing Martian lava flows and wind streaks mingling with impact craters, became the 1,200th "Image of the Day" posted online. The Mars Space Flight Facility at ASU operates the site, which is updated every weekday with images and data from THEMIS. The first "Image of ... more In Search Of A Martian Future 
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
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