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Opportunity Peers Beneath Surface Of Bathtub Ring
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2007Opportunity remains parked at the rock layer known as "Smith" -- part of the "bathtub ring" of rock layers beneath the edge of "Victoria Crater - - at "Duck Bay," the alcove where the rover entered the crater. During a test of the wire brush on the rock abrasion tool in a new mode of operation developed to work around recent encoder failures, Opportunity was mistakenly commanded to rotate the br ... more Mars Doubles In Brightness 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2007During the past month, Mars has doubled in brightness and it is putting on a nice show for backyard stargazers. "Mars is starting to look really nice through my 10-inch telescope," reports amateur astronomer Friedrich Deters of LaGrange, North Carolina, who took the picture at right on Nov. 17th. "Very nice!" agrees Dan Peterson of Racine, Wisconsin, who captured a similar snapshot the next nigh ... more Mars Express - 5000 Orbits And Counting 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 26, 2007On 25 December 2003, Europe's first Mars explorer arrived at the Red Planet. Almost four years later, Mars Express continues to rewrite the text books as its instruments send back a stream of images and other data. Today, the spacecraft reached another milestone in its remarkable career by completing 5000 orbits of Mars. During its mission to investigate martian mysteries, the orbiter has ... more Questioning Martian Life 
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 22, 2007The European Mars Science and Exploration Conference: Mars Express and ExoMars concluded on November 16 at ESA's Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. The conference covered a range of topics concerning Mars exploration, including results from the Mars Express satellite after almost four years in orbit and preparations for Europe's upcoming ExoMars mission. Here we present int ... more Mars' Molten Past 
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 22, 2007Mars was covered in an ocean of molten rock for about 100 million years after the planet formed, researchers from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, UC Davis, and NASA's Johnson Space Center have found. The work is published in the journal Nature on Nov. 22. The formation of the solar system can be dated quite accurately to 4,567,000,000 years ago, said Qing-Zhu Yin, assistant ... more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2007Rocky terrestrial planets, perhaps like Earth, Mars or Venus, appear to be forming or to have recently formed around a star in the Pleiades ("seven sisters") star cluster, the result of "monster collisions" of planets or planetary embryos. Astronomers using the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and the Spitzer Space Telescope report their findings in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal, th ... more Rover Finds Way To Brush Rock Surfaces Despite Setbacks 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2007Opportunity is still parked in front of the rock layer known as "Smith" inside Victoria Crater. The rover has now lost two encoders that operate motors on the rock abrasion tool during the grinding and brushing of surfaces. Science team members and engineers have been working in test beds and computer sequencing rooms to devise creative ways of using the rock abrasion tool without the grind and ... more Europe's comet-chasing probe completes key flyby 
Paris (AFP) Nov 14, 2007A billion-euro (1.45-billion-dollar) European scout craft completed a crucial fly-by of Earth to pick up speed on its 10-year mission to rendezvous with a distant comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday. "An important milestone has just been accomplished," the Paris-based agency said after the Rosetta probe raced over the Pacific Ocean southwest of Chile late Tuesday at 45,0 ... more Opportunity's Rock Abrasion Tool Shows Anomalous Behavior 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2007During the past week, Opportunity continued to investigate the rock layer known as "Smith," the second of three "bathtub-ring" layers of rock inside "Victoria Crater." The vehicle is mostly healthy, except for a recent anomaly involving the rock abrasion tool. Planned operations with the rock abrasion tool failed on Martian day, or sol, 1334 (Oct. 25, 2007), during both the calibration and ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Nov 8, 2007NASA penny-pinching risks exposing humankind to a planetary catastrophe if a big enough asteroid evades detection and slams into Earth, US lawmakers warned Thursday. But the US space agency said the chances of a new "Near-Earth Object" (NEO) like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs were too remote to divert scarce resources. Scott Pace, head of program analysis and evaluation at NASA, s ... more ISS astronauts prepare Harmony module for permanent docking 
Washington (AFP) Nov 9, 2007A US and Russian astronaut on the International Space Station on Friday went on a seven-hour spacewalk to prepare the recently delivered Harmony module for its permanent docking point on the ISS, NASA said. Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko "spent Friday morning disconnecting and stowing cables, removing a light ... and taking a cover off the Harmony node's Common ... more Shuttle returns safely to Earth after complex mission 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 7, 2007The US Space Shuttle Discovery landed back on Earth on Wednesday successfully ending one of the trickiest and riskiest missions ever to the International Space Station. Under clear blue skies, the shuttle, with its seven-strong crew, landed on schedule at 13:01 (1801 GMT) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a mission lasting 15 days, two hours and 23 minutes. "Congratulations on ... more Opportunity's Second Martian Birthday At Cape Verde 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 08, 2007A promontory nicknamed "Cape Verde" can be seen jutting out from the walls of Victoria Crater in this approximate true-color picture taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The rover took this picture on martian day, or sol, 1329 (Oct. 20, 2007), more than a month after it began descending down the crater walls - and just 9 sols shy of its second Martian birth ... more
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