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Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers A 3D View Of Its Surrounds
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 18, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. The images in the new 3-D Gallery combine views from the left and right "eyes" of the lander's Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) so that they appear three-dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses. The first 14 images in the gallery were handpicked by Mark Lemmon, SSI lead scientist ... more MSSS Delivers Mars Rover Science Instrument To JPL 
San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 18, 2008Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS), has delivered the first of four science cameras it is developing for the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2009 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover mission. This camera, the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI--see Figure 1) is designed to provide a sequence of hundreds of 2 Megapixel color images of the martian surface during the rover's descent about two ... more Space chiefs ponder ISS transport problem, post-2015 future 
Paris (AFP) July 17, 2008The heads of five agencies building the International Space Station staged talks here Thursday on tackling a looming transport problem for the ISS and gave positive signals for extending the orbital outpost's life beyond 2015. The ISS will need extra transport for crew and freight to substitute for the US space shuttle, scheduled to be retired in 2010 when the ISS is completed. ... more Phoenix Claws At Frozen Layer And Drills Small Holes 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 17, 2008A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop. Images and data sent from Phoenix early Wednesday indicated the shaved material in the scoop had changed slightly over time during the hours after it was collected. The motorized rasp -- located on ... more Mars Express To Rendezvous With Martian Moon 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 17, 2008Scientists and engineers are preparing ESA's Mars Express for a pair of close fly-bys of the Martian moon Phobos. Passing within 100 km of the surface, Mars Express will conduct some of the most detailed investigations of the moon to date. The series of fly-bys will take place between 12 July and 3 August. During the second encounter, the spacecraft will fly within 273 km of the surface. ... more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 16, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens. The trench was about 20 by 30 centimeters (8 by 12 inches) after work by the arm on Saturday. The team sent commands yesterday to extend the longer dimension by about 15 centimeters (6 inches). ... more Russia To Study Martian Moons Once Again 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 15, 2008On July 7 and July 12, 1988, the Soviet Union launched two space probes, Phobos-1 and Phobos-2, to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars and its moons, Phobos, named after the Greek word for Fear, and Deimos, Terror. Both spacecraft were to have conducted studies of the interplanetary environment en route to Mars, take observations of the Sun and survey the plasma environment around the ... more Martian Spirit In A Better Mood As Battery Power Rises 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 15, 2008Spirit's battery is recharging nicely now that rover planners have reduced the frequency of communications to and from the rover during the darkest days of Martian winter. Most measures of battery health are showing an increase of about 2 amp-hours in the battery state of charge (an amp-hour is equivalent to the amount of charge flowing for one hour from a current of 1 amp). The minimum st ... more A Happy Winter Solstice For Mars Rover Opportunity 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 15, 2008Opportunity has begun work on the much anticipated panorama of the layered promontory known as "Cape Verde" inside "Victoria Crater." The panorama will take several Martian days, or sols, to complete and will be made up of a mosaic of panoramic-camera images. The Cape Verde panorama is expected to be spectacular, "one for the textbooks." With each move closer to Cape Verde, power to Opport ... more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis, Phoenix's "dig czar," said the hard Martian surface that Phoenix has reached proved to be a difficult target, comparing the process to scraping a side ... more NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Uses Soil Probe And Swiss Scope 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has touched Martian soil with a fork-like probe for the first time and begun using a microscope that examines shapes of tiny particles by touching them. Phoenix's robotic arm pushed the fork-like probe's four spikes into undisturbed soil Tuesday as a validation test of the insertion procedure. The prongs of this thermal and electrical conductivity probe are about ... more Brown-Led Team Finds Evidence Of Water In Lunar Interior 
Providence RI (SPX) Jul 10, 2008A Brown University-led research team has for the first time discovered evidence of water that came from deep within the Moon, a revelation that strongly suggests water has been a part of the Moon since its early existence -- and perhaps ever since it was created by a cataclysmic collision between the early Earth and a Mars-sized object about 4.5 billion years ago. ... more Mission to bring back soil samples from Mars gets 2018 launch 
Paris (AFP) July 9, 2008Space experts on Wednesday set a date of 2018 for launching the Mars Sample Return mission, billed as the most complex and costliest exploration of the Red Planet ever planned. The unmanned mission aims to pick up soil and rocks from Mars and bring them back to Earth, where big labs can wring far more data from them than by remote control using small instruments on a scout vehicle. ... more
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