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Russia To Launch Space Base For Missions To Moon And Mars After 2020
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 19, 2007Russia plans to deploy an orbiting base for manned and unmanned missions to the Moon and Mars after 2020, the head of the space agency said on Tuesday. "After 2020, Russia plans to create and put into orbit a near-Earth experimental manned complex to ensure transport operations to the Moon and Mars," Anatoly Perminov said. He also said Russia has tentative plans for manned missions to Mars ... more The Closest Approach Of Mars In 2007 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2007Now playing online -- a new Martian movie showing the planet rotating. The movie was made from four images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, built and designed by JPL. The images were taken within 36 hours of today's closest approach to Earth by Mars. The camera captured the views when Mars was just 88 million kilometers (55 million miles) away. Mars and ... more Astronauts hook up huge module to space station 
Washington (AFP) Nov 14, 2007Astronauts Wednesday fixed a bus-sized 14-tonne module into place on the International Space Station to enable the future installation of a European and a Japanese laboratory, NASA said. "Station crew members moved Harmony from its temporary location on the left side of the Unity node to its new home on the front of the US laboratory Destiny Wednesday morning," a statement from the US space ... more 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 |
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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 Mars Express Watches A Dust Storm Engulf Mars 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 12, 2007This summer, Mars suffered a titanic dust storm that engulfed the entire planet. The dust storm contributed to a temporary warming effect around Mars, which raised the temperature of the atmosphere by around 20-30C. However, the surface temperature of the planet itself dropped. Imagine a dust cloud on Earth that started in the Sahara desert and grew to encompass our whole planet. Such a ca ... more Daunting technical problem mars a good year for NASA 
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 |
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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 NASA Study Reveals Less Water In Clouds Of Mars 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2007Martian clouds may contain less water than previously thought, according to a new NASA study. New NASA laboratory measurements of simulated martian clouds reveal that scientists may have been overestimating the amount of water in the planet's atmosphere. "The martian clouds we are studying are composed of water ice, like some clouds on Earth. However, they are forming at very cold tempera ... more Glitch Delays Shuttle Launch Until At Least Saturday 
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
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