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Dust Delays Mars Crater Entry
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 06, 2007A giant dust storm brewing for more than a week on Mars has become worse and is affecting surface operations of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Because the rovers depend on solar energy for survival, and the dust is partially blocking the sun, the storm is being watched closely by the rover scientists and engineers. Opportunity's entry into Victoria Crater is delayed for at ... more Scientists Find That Earth And Mars Are Different To The Core 
Oxford UK (SPX) Jul 06, 2007Research comparing silicon samples from Earth, meteorites and planetary materials, published in Nature (28th June 2007), provides new evidence that the Earth's core formed under very different conditions from those that existed on Mars. It also shows that the Earth and the Moon have the same silicon isotopic composition supporting the theory that atoms from the two mixed in the early stages of t ... more Spirit Independently Approaches And Studies A Rock 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 06, 2007Spirit remains healthy after attempting to wrap up scientific studies on an outcrop that contains several tantalizing, high-silica targets. High-silica targets are of interest to scientists because water might have been involved in forming them. Spirit still has some work to do on two targets, known as "Eileen Dean" and "Innocent Bystander," before moving on to the elevated, circular plateau k ... more Seeking Mars Survival Secrets 
Princeton NJ (SPX) Jul 06, 2007David Smith always wondered whether other planets might harbor life, so when he actually got the opportunity to investigate, he jumped at it. His decision launched him on a year-long mission, leading him to the Kennedy Space Center and back. Now, after months exploring whether Earth bacteria can survive on the surface of Mars, he has returned with findings that could help NASA plan better missio ... more Martian Tectonic Signatures At Aeolis Mensae 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 06, 2007The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board Mars Express has provided snapshots of the Aeolis Mensae region. This area, well known for its wind-eroded features, lies on a tectonic transition zone, characterised by incised valleys and unexplained linear features. Illuminated by the Sun from the west, the pictures are of a ground resolution of approximately 13 metres per pixel. The reg ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 06, 2007Spring cleaning continued on NASA's Spirit rover, as atmospheric turbulence on Mars cleared away more dust from the solar panels on the rover's 1,233rd sol, or Martian day, of exploration (June 22, 2007). As a result of this most recent dust-clearing event, Spirit out-produced the electrical energy of Spirit's twin, the Opportunity rover on the opposite side of Mars, by about 50 watt-hours. (Th ... more NASA Mars Rover Ready For Descent Into Crater 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2007NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into the Red Planet's massive Victoria Crater. This latest trek carries real risk for the long-lived robotic explorer, but NASA and the Mars Rover science team expect it to provide valuable science. Opportunity already has been exploring layered rocks in cliffs around Victoria Crater. The team has planned ... more UCLA Professor Leads NASA Dawn Mission 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2007Christopher T. Russell, UCLA professor of geophysics and space physics, has spent 15 years working on NASA's Dawn mission to the doughnut-shaped asteroid belt. As the scheduled July 7 launch from Cape Canaveral nears, Russell is ready, and so is Dawn. "The spacecraft will spend much less time in space than we put in preparing for the mission," said Russell, the mission's principal investigator. "I want to get this spacecraft up in space, where it belongs." ... more 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 |
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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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