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Rowan University Professor Seeing Red (Planet)
Glassboro NJ (SPX) Dec 18, 2007'Tis the season for Rowan University physics and astronomy associate professor David Klassen. "Mars season" that is. December 24 marks the Mars opposition-the point at which Earth and Mars pass each other in their orbits. Visions of the planet will be dancing in Klassen's telescope in the coming days because Mars appears three to five times bigger in the sky during the opposition-quite a seasona ... more Spirit Scouts Home Plate For Safe Haven 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2007Spirit has arrived at the north edge of "Home Plate." The rover will spend the next few Martian days, or sols, scouting the edge of Home Plate and acquiring images of the slopes to determine the best site for "Winter Haven 3," where Spirit will try to survive another season of minimal sunlight. Once the team selects a site, Spirit will drive down the north-facing edge of Home Plate and maneuve ... more 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 |
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Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Dec 10, 2007A technical problem that has pushed back the launch of the Atlantis until January broke NASA's good track record this year of three successful shuttle launches. The Atlantis' delay is significant since its crew of seven, including a German and a French astronaut, were expected to install the European Columbus laboratory on the orbiting International Space Station. Some 750 people were in ... more Clues From Antarctica Help With Search For Water On Mars 
Columbus OH (SPX) Dec 11, 2007Scientists have gathered more evidence that suggests flowing water on Mars -- by comparing images of the red planet to an otherworldly landscape on Earth. In recent years, scientists have examined images of several sites on Mars where water appears to have flowed to the surface and left behind a trail of sediment. Those sites closely resemble places where water flows today in the McMurdo Dry Val ... more International Group Plans Strategy For Mars Sample Return Mission 
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 |
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Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Dec 6, 2007NASA postponed the planned launch of the space shuttle Atlantis from Friday to Saturday, due to a "complex" technical glitch just hours before it was due to blast off. "We no longer have an opportunity to launch tomorrow, our earliest opportunity we are working to right now is Saturday," Leroy Caine, chairman of the mission management team, (MMT) told reporters here after NASA officials held ... more China To Launch Mars Probe In 2009 
Beijing (PTI) Dec 05, 2007China, which sent its first lunar orbiter to probe the moon's surface recently, will launch its maiden Mars probe onboard a Russian rocket in October 2009, state media reported. Yinghuo-1 would reach the pre-set circling orbit and beam the first images of the red planet in September 2010, the state-run China Daily said, quoting a senior scientist. The prototype of the probe was now being ... more New space mission aims to broaden Europe's ISS role 
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
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