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India installs antennas for planned moon mission: official
Bangalore, India (AFP) Dec 16, 2007India has installed a pair of giant antennas to monitor a planned robotic mission to the moon next year, making it one of a few nations with deep space tracking ability, officials said. The deep space network at Byalalu, 45 kilometres (30 miles) from Bangalore, will keep track of the Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission and provide command support during its two-year orbit around the moon, India's sp ... more Mars Orbiter Examines Lace And Lizard Skin Terrain 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2007Scrutiny by NASA's newest Mars orbiter is helping scientists learn the stories of some of the weirdest landscapes on Mars, as well as more familiar-looking parts of the Red Planet. One type of landscape near Mars' south pole is called "cryptic terrain" because it once defied explanation, but new observations bolster and refine recent interpretations of how springtime outbursts of carbon-di ... more Lighting Up The Lunar Night With Fuel Cells 
Cleveland OH (SPX) Dec 13, 2007How do you survive in a remote, mountainous region that has no water or wind and sometimes goes without sunlight for weeks? This is not the premise for a survivalist reality show; it's a question NASA must answer before sending humans to live and work on the moon. Within the next twenty years, people again will explore the vast lunar terrain. This time, we're going to build a permanent out ... more Building Blocks Of Life Formed On Mars 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 12, 2007Organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen and form the building blocks of all life on Earth. By analyzing organic material and minerals in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001, scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory have shown for the first time that building blocks of life formed on Mars early in its history. Previously, scientists have thought that organic mater ... more Software Helps Mars Rovers Find Winter Havens 
Columbus OH (SPX) Dec 12, 2007New software is helping NASA find safe places for the Spirit rover to ride out future Martian winters -- and also plan where Spirit and its companion rover, Opportunity, will explore in the future. The steep Martian mesa dubbed "Von Braun" would be a safe haven, the software and data analysis determined -- but the path that Spirit would have to follow to get there is a little too risky to travel ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2007NASA and an international team are developing plans and seeking recommendations to launch the first Mars mission to bring soil samples back to Earth. The ability to study soil from Mars here on Earth will contribute significantly to answering questions about the possibility of life on the Red Planet. Returned samples also will increase understanding of the useful or harmful properties of Martian ... more Mars Rover Investigates Signs Of Steamy Martian Past 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2007Researchers using NASA's twin Mars rovers are sorting out two possible origins for one of Spirit's most important discoveries, while also getting Spirit to a favorable spot for surviving the next Martian winter. The puzzle is what produced a patch of nearly pure silica -- the main ingredient of window glass -- that Spirit found last May. It could have come from either a hot-spring environment o ... more Opportunity Grinds Into Rock In Victoria Crater 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2007Opportunity spent part of the past week carefully grinding a hole into the surface of a light-colored ring of rock inside "Victoria Crater" known as "Smith," despite the previous loss of encoders that enabled two of the motors of the rock abrasion tool to operate under control of the tool's flight software. The endeavor was successful, with the rover grinding to a depth of about 1 millimet ... more NASA pushes shuttle launch into 2008 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Dec 9, 2007NASA Sunday postponed its launch of the shuttle Atlantis until early 2008 after technical problems scuppered the planned delivery of a European laboratory to the International Space Station. The launch was scrubbed for a fourth time in the early hours after NASA engineers discovered that one of the sensors on the spacecraft's external hydrogen fuel tank had failed. "The mission managemen ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 4, 2007Europe aims to broaden its participation in the work of the International Space Station with the upcoming mission of the US space shuttle Atlantis, which is scheduled for takeoff on Thursday. Atlantis is to deliver to the ISS a European-built space laboratory named Columbus. Until now, only the United States and Russia have had their own laboratories, which form the heart of the ISS. "We ... more Spirit Breaks Free In Race For Survival 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 04, 2007In typical unflagging fashion, Spirit has managed to break free of piles of soil built up around the wheels in a low, sandy area that the rover's handlers have nicknamed "Tartarus," after a deep, underworld dungeon in Greek mythology. Team members are pulling out all the stops to get Spirit to a winter location where, based on solar power projections, the rover has a chance at survival. As ... more Multi-Tasking Rover Supports Multiple Missions 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 04, 2007Opportunity continues to investigate the rock exposure known as "Smith2" in the second of three bathtub ring-like layers of rock inside "Victoria Crater" as well as test communications for Phoenix, NASA's next mission to Mars. The rover is healthy and all subsystems are normal. On Sol 1361 (Nov. 22, 2007), Opportunity performed diagnostic tests of the shoulder joint that controls side-to-s ... more Noctis Labyrinthus, Labyrinth Of The Night 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 03, 2007These images taken by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), onboard ESA's Mars Express imaged the Noctis Labyrinthus region, the 'labyrinth of the night' on Mars. The HRSC took these pictures on 25 June 2006 in orbit 3155, with a ground resolution of approximately 16 m/pixel. Noctis Labyrinthus lies at approximately 6.5 south and 260 east. The Sun illuminates the scene from the north-west, t ... more
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