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Odyssey Returning to Service After Taking Precaution
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2007The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter is returning the healthy spacecraft to usual activities this week after a precautionary status of reduced activity that the orbiter entered on Sept. 14. Odyssey properly put itself into the standby "safe mode" in response to a root cause that engineers have diagnosed as the same cause as for two previous safe mode entries, in 2005 and 2006. ... more Changes to Mars Science Lab Project Respond to Cost Increases And Keep Program On Track 
Pasadean CA (JPL) Sep 19, 2007In early June 2007, the Mars Science Laboratory project completed its project-wide Critical Design Review (CDR), which marks the completion of the project's design phase and transition into the build up of flight hardware. A key component of the CDR process was a technical risk, programmatic, and cost review, from which multiple independent cost assessments predicted that this technically ... more The UA Is Over The Moon About Mars 
Tuscon AZ (SPX) Sep 18, 2007The Phoenix Mars Mission is on its way to the Red Planet after a flawless launch from Cape Canaveral in early August. With landing scheduled for late May 2008, it might seem like there is nothing to do but wait through a long nine months. But The University of Arizona won't be idle during the cruise phase. Mission scientists are diligently preparing for landing and science operations. And the ... more Mice and men: space gerbils blaze trail for humans to Mars 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 14, 2007Ten gerbils took off from the Russian-run Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan on Friday for a 12-day voyage to test the possible effects of a human mission to Mars, an official said Friday. A Foton-M spaceship with the rodents on board took off on a Soyuz rocket, mission official Anfisa Kazakova told AFP by telephone. The rocket is to include a cage with 10 rodents with the aim of ... more New Theory Explains Ice On Mars 
Honolulu HI (SPX) Sep 14, 2007Wobbles on Mars cause ice ages that are much more dramatic than those on Earth, says astronomer Norbert Schorghofer of the University of Hawaii. Thanks to our large, stabilizing Moon, Earth's rotation axis is always tilted by about 23 degrees. The tilt of Mars, however, can wobble by as much as 10 degrees from its current 25 degrees. Wobbles cause big changes in the amount of sunlight reaching ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2007The Dawn spacecraft completed the 25-kilometer (15-mile) journey from Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., to Pad-17B of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5:10 a.m. EDT today. The launch period for Dawn, NASA's eight-year, more than 5-billion-kilometer (3.2-billion-mile) odyssey into the heart of the asteroid belt, opens Sept. 26. "From here, the only way to go is up," said ... more More Teachers Get A Lesson In Weightlessness 
New York NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2007The Northrop Grumman Foundation launched 57 teachers from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania into weightlessness today as part of the Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery program. The goal: To inspire and prepare the next generation of scientists, mathematicians and engineers -- critical areas where the U.S. has fallen behind globally. The teachers performed a ... more First Image From Phoenix Mars Lander Camera Received On Earth 
Tuscon AZ (SPX) Sep 10, 2007A camera flying aboard The University of Arizona-led Phoenix Mars Lander took its first picture during cruise and sent it back to Earth on Sept. 6. The lander's Robotic Arm Camera took the photo looking into the Robotic Arm's scoop. Both instruments are encased in a protection biobarrier, to ensure no Earth organisms are carried to Mars. "It is a nice, clean picture with good sharp focus. ... more Mars Rovers Survive Severe Dust Storms Ready For Next Objectives 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 08, 2007Two months after sky-darkening dust from severe storms nearly killed NASA's Mars exploration rovers, the solar-powered robots are awake and ready to continue their mission. Opportunity's planned descent into the giant Victoria Crater was delayed, but now the rover is preparing to drive into the half-mile diameter crater as early as Sept. 11. Spirit, Opportunity's rover twin, also ... more |
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Phoenix AZ (SPX) Sep 04, 2007Phoenix is on its way to Mars. The latest spacecraft in NASA's program of Mars exploration launched from Cape Canaveral on August 4 of this year, and is scheduled to land in the planet's northern polar region on May 25, 2008. Its findings will help scientists answer a critical question about the Red Planet: was it ever habitable? Phoenix is in many ways similar to the two Viking landers ... more Russia plans manned Moon mission by 2025 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 31, 2007Russia plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2025 and wants to build a permanent base there shortly after, the head of Russian space agency Roskosmos said Friday. "According to our estimates we will be ready for a manned flight to the Moon in 2025," Anatoly Perminov told reporters. An "inhabited station" could be built there between 2027 and 2032, he said. ... more NASA Study Will Help Stop Stowaways To Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2007NASA clean rooms, where scientists and engineers assemble spacecraft, have joined hot springs, ice caves, and deep mines as unlikely places where scientists have discovered ultra-hardy organisms collectively known as 'extremophiles'. Some species of bacteria uncovered in a recent NASA study have never been detected anywhere else. According to Dr. Kasthuri Venkateswaran, who led the study ... more Surviving Desert Storm 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 31, 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. Now the rovers are set to continue their mission, searching for signs of past water on Mars. Liquid water is essential for life as we know it, and therefore the history of water on Mars is vital in determining whether or not ... more
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