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Arlington VA (SPX) Dec 03, 2007Presidential campaigns should publicly express their support of NASA's Constellation Program to ensure America's leadership in space exploration as well as boost education, Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion Blakey said. The exploration program, which will return astronauts to the moon and explore Mars and beyond, should not be delayed under any circumstances since there i ... more Rover Perseveres Despite Stall In Robotic Arm 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 30, 2007Opportunity spent much of the week conducting ongoing studies of a layer of rock known as "Smith," part of a "bathtub ring" of rocks that circumvent "Victoria Crater" beneath the rim. Opportunity acquired images and studied the composition and abundance of iron-bearing minerals in the rock. During tests of the rock abrasion tool on the Earthbound engineering rover similar to the rover on Mars, e ... more Russia Conducts First Experiment In Preparation For Mars-500 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 30, 2007Russian scientists have completed the first stage of preparations for an experimental Mars mission simulation, Mars-500, a medical research institute announced on Thursday. The purpose of the main experiment, expected to begin in late 2008, is to simulate a space flight to Mars taking into account all ramifications, including a 250-day "trip" to the Red Planet, a 30-day period on its surface, an ... more Rover Slips In Sandy Terrain 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 29, 2007On the way to "Winter Haven 3," the spot on the north face of "Home Plate" where NASA's Spirit rover is headed, the rover has driven into an area below a hummock (elevated area). Spirit has tried unsuccessfully during the past week to climb onto the hummock and make progress toward Winter Haven 3. Because it is critical to reach the north face while enough solar energy is available to get there, ... more HiRISE Camera Views Spirit At Home Plate 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 28, 2007The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a new color image of the feature dubbed "Home Plate" in Gusev Crater on Mars. The Mars Exploration Rover "Spirit" shows up inside the perimeter of Home Plate, where it was when HiRISE took the image on Sept. 27, 2007, at 2:19 pm local Mars time, HiRISE team member Ken Herkenhoff ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Nov 24, 2007Astronauts at the International Space Station completed a seven-hour space walk hundreds of miles above Earth on Saturday, fixing up equipment to develop the orbiting laboratory, the US space agency NASA said. Two US astronauts, Peggy Whitson and Dan Tani, completed the spacewalk at 1654 GMT after moving and wiring up heavy hardware to a recently-installed module called Harmony, the National ... more 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 |
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Beijing (AFP) Nov 19, 2007China is aiming to replace all its imported communications and broadcast satellites with home-made ones by 2010 as part of efforts to reduce its reliance on overseas technology, state media said Monday. The nation will step up research and development of these satellites as just one out of the 12 currently in use is Chinese-made, Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National Space Administration, ... more Mars Express Creates First Global Map Of Martian Ionosphere 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 19, 2007With ESA's Mars Express, scientists continue to gain new insight into the mysterious Martian environment. Some of the most exciting results are being sent back by the MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding) experiment. MARSIS transmits low frequency radio waves towards the planet's surface and records the echoes of the different layers. Although Mars is sometim ... more Planets Forming In Pleiades Star Cluster 
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
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