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Opportunity Continues Reading The Story In The Rocks
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 14, 2008Opportunity has finished grinding into the surface and acquiring microscopic images of a rock target informally named "Gilbert," at the bottom of the alcove inside "Victoria Crater" known as "Duck Bay." The rover is in the middle of a campaign to study the composition of the exposed interior of the rock using both the Mossbauer and alpha-particle X-ray spectrometers. Some time next week ... more South Korean To Star In Space Sing-Song 
Moscow (AFP) April 12, 2008South Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-Yeon, was to star Saturday in celebratory sing-song aboard the crowded International Space Station (ISS) as back on Earth Russia marked the 47th anniversary of sending the first man in space. Yi, 29, docked Thursday along with Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko after a successful Soyuz space capsule journey from the Russian cosmodrome at ... more NASA Spacecraft Fine Tunes Course For Mars Landing 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 11, 2008NASA engineers have adjusted the flight path of the Phoenix Mars Lander, setting the spacecraft on course for its May 25th landing on the Red Planet. "This is our first trajectory maneuver targeting a specific location in the northern polar region of Mars," said Brian Portock, chief of the Phoenix navigation team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The mission's two pri ... more Spirit Advances Toward Midwinter 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2008Seasons are about twice as long on Mars as on Earth and are offset relative to Earth because Mars takes about twice as long to complete one orbit around the Sun. At Spirit's location, the fall equinox -- the start of fall, when night and day are equal in length -- arrived Dec. 12, 2007. The winter solstice -- the time of year with the shortest day -- will arrive June 25, 2008. Solar array ... more NASA Spacecraft Images Mars Moon In Color And In 3D 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2008A new stereo view of Phobos, the larger and inner of Mars' two tiny moons, has been captured by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took two images of Phobos 10 minutes apart on March 23. Scientists combined the images for a stereo view. "Phobos is of great interest because it may be rich in water ic ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2008Opportunity is wrapping up its scientific investigation of the outcrop exposure known as "Gilbert_A" at the bottom of the alcove known as "Duck Bay," the lowest traversable portion of the crater's interior. Duck Bay is a recess in the walls of "Victoria Crater." Opportunity performed a dental self-examination of teeth in the rover's rock abrasion tool on Sol 1482 (March 25, 2008). Images ... more Spirit Phones Home To Reset Clock As Energy Levels Plummet For Mars Rover 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2008Spirit is feeling the strain of juggling activities on Mars in the face of declining power levels as the winter Sun sinks lower on the horizon. After acquiring compositional data from a rock target informally named "Wendell Pruitt," Spirit had to wait a few sols (Martian days) to have enough energy to conduct atmospheric studies and move the robotic arm out of the way for a panoramic-camera ... more European Space Freighter cleared to dock with ISS: ESA 
Paris (AFP) April 2, 2008Europe's brand-new robot space freighter received final clearance to dock with the International Space Station (ISS), officials at the European Space Agency announced Wednesday. The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), named the Jules Verne after the French pioneer of science fiction, will make its first attempt to link up to the orbiting space station on Thursday at 1441 GMT, said ESA management ... more In maiden voyage, European space freighter docks with ISS
Toulouse, France (AFP) April 3, 2008Europe's robot freighter successfully docked on its maiden voyage Thursday with the International Space Station, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced. The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) hooked up with mankind's orbiting outpost at 1445 GMT, prompting cheers and applause to erupt at mission control in this southwestern French city. Named after French science fiction pioneer Jules ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 28, 2008Spirit has reached its final position for the coming Martian winter and has no plans to move before the next Martian spring. During the next few months, the rover will increasingly go into a "hibernate" mode as the sun continues to dim. Spirit is currently wrapping up a campaign of scientific studies of the rock target known as "Wendell Pruitt," interspersed with remote science observation ... more Mars Robotic Rover Opportunity Finds More Evidence Of Ancient Water 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 28, 2008Opportunity has completed scientific studies of the undisturbed surface of a rock target informally named "Dorsal" in the "Gilbert" rock layer inside "Victoria Crater." Dorsal is a protruding fin of rock created by minerals deposited in cracks that remained in place long after the original rock eroded away because they were more resistant to weathering. Data collected with the Mossbauer ... more Wataire's Water-From-Air Units Get Thumbs Up In Mars Mission Simulation 
Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Mar 27, 2008Wataire International is pleased to advise that we have received an initial review that our water-from-air units "performed very well" during the recent four-month mission at the Mars Society's Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station. It is the first time that a simulated Mars mission has ever been conducted for such a long duration. In recent correspondence from Engineer Paul ... more Googling Alien Life 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 27, 2008MIT scientists are designing a satellite-based observatory that they say could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to search for planets outside the solar system that appear to cross in front of bright stars. The system could rapidly discover hundreds of planets similar to the Earth. Google, the Internet search powerhouse that in recent years has expanded to ... more
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