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Still Grinding After All These Years Makes For Much Opportunity
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 10, 2008With only about a month remaining before Opportunity's fourth anniversary (in Earth years) of Mars exploration, NASA's robotic geologist is still grinding into the surface of rocks to unlock the secrets of their interior chemistry. Meanwhile, fall arrived in the southern hemisphere of Mars on Dec. 9, 2007, Opportunity's 1,378th Martian day, or sol, of exploration of the Red Planet. Ten day ... more ESA Presents Mars In 3D 
Paris (ESA) Feb 5, 2008The European Space Agency on Tuesday unveiled images of Mars in three dimensions to help understand the Red Planet's unique topography. The Digital Terrain Model pictures have been built up thanks to a high-resolution stereoscopic camera aboard Mars Express, the ESA orbiter. Mars has extraordinary canyons and plains as well as the highest known mountain in the Solar System ... more Countdown begins for US-Europe space mission 
Washington (AFP) Feb 5, 2008The crew of the US shuttle Atlantis readied Tuesday for this week's delayed mission to deliver a European space laboratory to the orbiting International Space Station. Lift-off, originally scheduled for December, now is set for Thursday after a two-month delay, while engineers got to the bottom of electrical faults with fuel gauges on the shuttle's external fuel tank. "Atlantis is ready ... more NASA Budget Request Strong On Earth Weak On Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2008Two new Earth-observing satellites, a "flagship" mission to the outer planets, and several small lunar missions are among the highlights of the Administration's budget request for NASA for fiscal year 2009. At $17.6 billion the proposal represents a 1.8% increase over NASA's actual budget for 2008, and $4.44 billion, or just over a quarter of the total, is slated towards NASA's science missions. ... more Bush sets out tiny 2.9 percent rise in space budget 
Washington (AFP) Feb 4, 2008President George W. Bush Monday set out a modest 2.9 percent rise in funding for the US space agency, just as NASA is racing to finish the International Space Station in 2010. The funds were contained in Bush's proposed 3.1 trillion dollar budget for the fiscal year 2009, which earmarked a total 17.61 billion dollars for National Aeronautics and Space Administration projects in the coming ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Jan 28, 2008The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express has returned striking scenes of the Terby crater on Mars. The region is of great scientific interest as it holds information on the role of water in the history of the planet. The image data was obtained on 13 April 2007 during orbit 4199, with a ground resolution of approximately 13 m/pixel. The Sun illuminates the scene ... more HiRISE Camera Details Dynamic Wind Action On Mars 
Phoenix AZ (SPX) Jan 24, 2008Mars has an ethereal, tenuous atmosphere at less than 1 percent the surface pressure of Earth, so scientists working on The University of Arizona's High Resolution Imaging Experiment, or HiRISE, are challenged to explain the complex, wind-sculpted landforms they're now seeing in unprecedented detail. The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the most powerful camera to orbit ... more Asteroid to give Earth a close shave next week 
Paris (AFP) Jan 23, 2008A huge asteroid will zoom past Earth next week at such a close distance that amateur astronomers should be able to spot it, specialists said on Wednesday. Measuring between 150 and 600 metres (yards) across, asteroid 2007 TU24 would inflict devastating regional damage were it to hit Earth, but there is no risk of any collision, they said. It will fly by on Tuesday, being around 534,000 k ... more Ice Clouds Put Mars In The Shade 
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 17, 2008Until now, Mars has generally been regarded as a desert world, where a visiting astronaut would be surprised to see clouds scudding across the orange sky. However, new results show that the arid planet possesses high-level clouds that are sufficiently dense to cast a shadow on the surface. The results were obtained by the OMEGA Visible and Infrared Mineralogical Mapping Spectrometer instru ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Jan 8, 2008Three spaceships are set to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of February, according to the latest programme unveiled by space agencies. The US shuttle Atlantis, bearing the European Space Agency's science module Columbus, has a launch window starting January 24, although liftoff is likelier between February 2 and 7, NASA said last week. Launch was initially sc ... more Russia to search for life on Jupiter's moon Europa: report 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 7, 2008Russia plans to participate in a European mission to investigate Jupiter's moon Europa and search for simple life forms, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday, quoting a senior researcher. The head of the Space Research Institute, Lev Zelyony, said a project to explore the giant gaseous planet Jupiter would shortly be included in the programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) for the ... more Spirit's West Valley Panorama 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2008NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Sprit spent the closing months of 2007. After several months near the base of the plateau called "Home Plate" in the inner basin of the Columbia Hills range inside Gusev Crater, Spirit climbed onto the eastern edge of the plateau during the rover's 1,306th Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 5, 2007). It ... more New Observations Slightly Decrease Mars Impact Probability 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 03, 2008Additional position observations for asteroid 2007 WD5 taken on December 29 through January 2 have been used to improve the accuracy of the asteroid's orbit. As a result, the range of possible paths past Mars has narrowed by a factor of 3 and the most likely path has moved a little farther away from the planet, causing the Mars impact probability to decrease slightly to 3.6% (about one cha ... more
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