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Mars Rovers Get About As Spirit Clips Viking 2 For Ground Duty
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 24, 2007After six weeks of hunkering down during raging dust storms that limited solar power, both of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have resumed driving. Opportunity advanced 13.38 meters (44 feet) toward the edge of Victoria Crater on Aug. 21. Mission controllers were taking advantage of gradual clearing of dust from the sky while also taking precautions against buildup of ... more Brightening Skies Bolster Opportunity For MER-B To Survive 2007 Dust Season 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2007Opportunity is healthy and remains perched near the rim of "Victoria Crater." The rover was on a low-power schedule that alternated between a 3-sol plan and a 4-sol plan. Tau (atmospheric opacity) has begun to stabilize this week at around 3.7, resulting in solar array energy between 230-240 watt hours. Therefore in the upcoming week, the team will return to nominal planning. ... more Drawing A Living On Lunar 
Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 24, 2007A new NASA contest encourages university art and design students to partner with science and engineering departments to create art representative of living and working on the moon. The goal is for students in the arts, science and engineering to collaboratively engage in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon by 2020, and eventually journey on to Mars and other destinations in the solar system ... more Mars-500 Experiment Could Be Extended To 700 Days 
Zhukovsky, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 23, 2007A simulated Mars mission, expected to be launched in Russia later this year, could be extended from 500 to 700 days, the head of the Russian Space Agency said Wednesday. Speaking at the MAKS-2007 air show outside Moscow, Anatoly Perminov said: "There are proposals to extend the Mars-500 experiment at the Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Studies...probably to 700 days." ... more NASA looks to next US shuttle launch 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 21, 2007NASA looked cautiously to its next mission due in October after the US shuttle Endeavour returned safely to Earth Tuesday despite damage to its underside. "We are still pointing for October, we still have time," the space agency's launch director Mike Leinbach told reporters at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the landing. ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 17, 2007Spirit is healthy as the amount of dust hoisted into the atmosphere by recent wind storms has leveled off and solar energy levels have held steady at about 280 to 300 watt-hours of energy (100 watt-hours is the amount of energy needed to light a 100-watt bulb for one hour). Since the rover's 1,271st Martian day, or sol, of exploration (July 31, 2007), atmospheric opacity, a measurement known as ... more Student Joins AMASE Expedition In Svalbard 
Svalbard, Denmark (SPX) Aug 20, 2007For two weeks, an international crew of scientists and engineers are field-testing instruments for future Mars missions. Thea Falkenberg, winner of a student contest to join the AMASE expedition, reports back on her experiences through a daily blog. The Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition (AMASE) takes advantage of similarities between the conditions on Mars and those at Svalbard in order to ... more Nuclear Power In Space 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 15, 2007Solar energy supplies most of power in spacecraft nowadays. Although the efficiency of solar cells has grown substantially recently, they have reached the limit of their development and can supply electricity only in near-Earth orbits and for satellite-borne equipment. Such large-scale projects as the exploration of the Moon or a manned mission to Mars require nuclear power plants. ... more India Wants To Launch First Reusuable Space Launcher By 2010 
Bangalore (RIA Novosti) Aug 15, 2007India is planning to launch a reusable spacecraft for the first time in 2010 and to send a mission to Mars as early as 2012, a senior space official said Monday. India has been successfully developing its space program in recent years, regularly launching satellites using its own booster rockets. "Our target [for the first launch] is before 2010," the Press Trust of India news agency quoted ... more |
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Paris, France (ESF) Aug 12, 2007Earth's surface is a very active place; its plates are forever jiggling around, rearranging themselves into new configurations. Continents collide and mountains arise, oceans slide beneath continents and volcanoes spew. As far as we know Earth's restless surface is unique to the planets in our solar system. So what is it that keeps Earth's plates oiled and on the move? Scientists think tha ... more Helping Phoenix Land 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 10, 2007The Phoenix Mars Lander launched on Saturday, August 4, beginning a journey to never-explored regions of the Red Planet to search for frozen water beneath the Martian surface. What it discovers will help scientists determine if Mars could support life. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. and Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. are working together with the University o ... more Brighter Skies Lifts Rover Spirit As MER-A Gets Active 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 09, 2007Slight clearing of still-dusty Martian skies has improved the energy situation for both Spirit and Opportunity, allowing controllers to increase the rovers' science observations. Spirit is even being commanded to move its arm for the first time in nearly three weeks. It will position the arm's microscopic imager to take a series of photographs of two soil targets and one rock target. Opportunity ... more Dallas Professor Helps Mission To Red Planet 
Dallas TX (SPX) Aug 08, 2007Dr. John H. Hoffman, a space scientist at The University of Texas at Dallas, was on hand Saturday as the Delta II rocket carrying the Phoenix Mars lander lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base for a 10-month long journey to the Red Planet. A physics professor and member of the University's William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, Hoffman is part of team of researchers lead by Dr. Pete ... more
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