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Interplanetary Networking As Mars Express Prepares To Keep An Eye On Phoenix
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 02, 2007ESA's Mars Express will keep an eye on NASA's Phoenix lander as it makes its way to the Martian surface, setting an example for international cooperation and interplanetary networking. Phoenix's launch is scheduled for 4 August this year and it is expected to land on the Red Planet in the spring of 2008. The mission will investigate the Martian environment and will look beneath the frigid, arcti ... more Weather Delays Phoenix Mars Probe Launch 
Washington (AFP) July 31, 2007Adverse weather Tuesday at Cape Canaveral, Florida, delayed by 24 hours the launch of Mars probe "Phoenix" on its novel mission to dig in Martian soil for water and signs of life, NASA said. Weather conditions prevented fueling of the two-stage Delta II rocket atop which Phoenix was scheduled to blast off on Friday, the US space agency said in a statement. The two available launch times on Satur ... more Impact Craters In Tyrrhena Terra 
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 01, 2007The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express obtained images of the Tyrrhena Terra region on Mars. On 10 May 2007, the pictures of the region located at 18 South and 99 East were taken during orbit number 4294 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 metres per pixel. Tyrrhena Terra is part of the ancient, heavily cratered southern Martian highlands. The region is loc ... more US-Canadian Team On 4-Month Simulated Mars Mission 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 01, 2007When the Phoenix Mars Lander reaches the Red Planet in 2008, the $386-million robotic mission will begin exploring the icy Martian soil. Meanwhile, in a remote field station here on Earth, Canadian and American scientists have been engaged in a simulated expedition to Mars. There is no place on Earth like Mars, except perhaps the arctic polar desert where Canadian geologist Melissa Battler comma ... more Fossil Hunting On Mars 
Moffett Field CA (ARC) Jul 31, 2007To date, only NASA has succeeded in sending a rover to explore our neighboring planet Mars. That is about to change. In 2011, the European Space Agency will send ExoMars to the Red Planet in search of signs that Mars is, or was, a living world. Astrobiology Field Research Editor Henry Bortman recently interviewed the ExoMars project scientist, Jorge Vago. In this, the second part of a two-part i ... more |
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Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 27, 2007Martian winds probably won't cause serious problems for NASA's upcoming Phoenix Mars Lander mission but could complicate efforts to collect soil and ice at the landing site, according to University of Michigan atmospheric scientist Nilton Renno. New results from U-M wind tunnel tests suggest that winds could blow away some of the laboriously collected soil and ice, but probably not enough to aff ... more Europe Asks Thales Alenia Space For The Price Of A Mars Robotic Rover 
Cannes, France (UPI) Jul 27, 2007The European Space Agency has asked Cannes, France, satellite manufacturer Thales Alenia Space to quote a price on the construction of a Mars rover. The French-Italian satellite company announced it will convene a meeting of its major contractors next week to discuss the rover, which the ESA is planning to send to Mars in 2013, the BBC reported Thursday. ESA delegations approved the genera ... more Crustacean Shells Might Hold Secret To Safer Long-Range Space Travel 
Boxford, MA (SPX) Jul 25, 2007A team of researchers is seeking to determine if an ingredient found in shrimp and lobster shells might make future missions to Mars safer for space crews who could be injured along the way. Scientists from Harvey Mudd College (HMC) in California and the University of Louisville are collaborating with bioengineering and biomaterials company BioSTAR West on research efforts to better understand h ... more Search For Life In Martian Ice Relies On UK Technology 
London UK (SPX) Jul 26, 2007The Martian surface will be explored for conditions favourable for past or present life thanks to micro-machine technology supplied by Imperial College London. The NASA mission, planned for August 2007, represents the first chance for UK hardware to contribute to the exploration of Mars since the failed Beagle 2 spacecraft launched in 2003. Dr Tom Pike and his team at Imperial's Department of El ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 20, 2007Having explored Mars for three-and-a-half years in what were missions originally designed for three months, NASA's Mars rovers are facing perhaps their biggest challenge. For nearly a month, a series of severe Martian summer dust storms has affected the rover Opportunity and, to a lesser extent, its companion, Spirit. The dust in the Martian atmosphere over Opportunity has blocked 99 percent o ... more Raytheon Celebrates Math And Science Education On MARS Day 
Waltham, MA (SPX) Jul 21, 2007Did the Mars Exploration Rovers find evidence of life on the Red planet? How long is a Martian year? Today, nearly 100 Washington area YMCA summer campers, ages 11-13 years, learned the answers to these questions when they teamed with Raytheon for a celebration of the planet Mars. Raytheon, as part of its MathMovesU middle school initiative, is showing young people how engaging math and scienc ... more HiRISE Catches A Dust Devil On Mars 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 21, 2007The University of Arizona-based High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) group this week released a good look at a dust devil on Mars. This is not the storm bedeviling NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. The HiRISE camera captured the dust twister by chance in its photographic swath of a region in the southern hemisphere near Hellas Planitia during a Martian mid-afternoon ... more NASA Robots Practice Moon Survey In The Arctic Circle 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2007Two NASA robots are surveying a rocky, isolated polar desert within a crater in the Arctic Circle. The study will help scientists learn how robots could evaluate potential outposts on the moon or Mars. The robots, K10 Black and K10 Red, carry 3-D laser scanners and ground-penetrating radar. The team arrived at Haughton Crater at Devon Island, Canada, on July 12 and will operate the machines un ... more
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