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Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2008A giant telescope, galaxy maps, and laser beacons on Mars are only a few of the ideas that teams selected by NASA will study for the next generation of astronomy and astrophysics missions. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will help usher in this new era by playing an active role in 15 of the 19 science teams chosen to look at new concepts for future missions. The 15 team ... more New Tool Enlisted In The Search For Life On Mars 
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2008"I admit I never actually wrote this goal into my grant," UC Berkeley Professor of Chemistry Richard Mathies told me, as one of his graduate students injected a drop of Zinfandel into Mathies's organic analyzer. "But it is an important demonstration" that the detector actually works. The device in Mathies's lab is a prototype of the Mars Organic Analyzer. Along with several other com ... more NASA Spacecraft Photographs Avalanches On Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2008A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet's north pole. The image shows tan clouds billowing away from the foot of a towering slope, where ice and dust have just cascaded down. The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took the photograph Feb. 19. It is one of approximately 2,400 ... more Liquid Water Found Flowing On Mars - Not Yet 
Tuscon AZ (SPX) Mar 04, 2008Liquid water has not been found on the Martian surface within the last decade after all, according to new research. The finding casts doubt on the 2006 report that the bright spots in some Martian gullies indicate that liquid water flowed down those gullies sometime since 1999. "It rules out pure liquid water," said lead author Jon D. Pelletier of The University of Arizona in Tucson. ... more Study casts doubt on Mars water find 
Tucson (UPI) Mar 03, 2008A U.S. scientist said high resolution images raise doubt that liquid water has been found on the surface of Mars. Jon D. Pelletier of The University of Arizona in Tucson said topographic data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows that a bright streak in a gully on the side of a crater is probably not water. ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Feb 27, 2008Last week, two MIT students began living, working and communicating with the outside world as if they were on a mission to Mars. Whenever they go outside their small, round habitat where eight people are spending a two-week "mission," they don spacesuits and pass through an airlock. When they send e-mail, it takes 20 minutes before the recipient can see it-the time it takes for radio waves ... more How The Atmospheres Of Mars And Venus Are Affected By Carbon Monoxide 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2008Modelling of the Earth's atmosphere has acquired economic importance due to its use in the prediction of ozone depletion and in measuring the impact of global warming. Now, researchers, writing in the online open access journal PMC Physics B have found that the rate at which electrons lose energy to carbon monoxide is greater than that to carbon dioxide at higher levels in the atmospheres of ... more Unique Martian Formation Reproduced, Reveals Brief Bursts Of Water 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Feb 22, 2008Researchers from the United States and the Netherlands report that several formations on Mars indicate incidents of rapid release of water from the planet's interior. Mars has many basins that contain formations that look like fans. A few of these fans, only about 10, have steps down into the basin. Since scientists first reported this feature three years ago, there has been no clear conse ... more US space shuttle Atlantis returns home 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 20, 2008The shuttle Atlantis safely landed in Florida Wednesday, completing a successful mission to install Europe's first space laboratory. Atlantis touched down at the seaside Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, bringing home seven astronauts following a 13-day mission to deliver the Columbus lab to the orbiting International Space Station. The shuttle's return also cleared the skies for ... more |
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Sarasota FL (SPX) Feb 13, 2008Sunovia Energy Technologies and EPIR Technologies are pleased to announce the execution of an agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the development of advanced high-efficiency, ultra-lightweight solar cells with thicknesses reduced by a factor of more than ten as compared to those currently in use. These cells will be used to power spacecraft and, in ... more 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
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