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Soil Studies Continue At Site Of Phoenix Mars Lander
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 11, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has continued studies of its landing site by widening a trench, making overnight measurements of conductivity in the Martian soil and depositing a sample of surface soil into a gap between partially opened doors to an analytical oven on the lander. Phoenix's robotic arm delivered soil Thursday from a trench informally named "Rosy Red" through a narrow opening to ... more Professor Plays Vital Role In Mars Water Breakthrough 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has recently confirmed what space scientists have suspected for a long time: There is water on Mars. UT Dallas Physics Professor John Hoffman, a member of the William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, is at the center of the discovery. Hoffman's mass spectrometer is the system that analyzed gases from soil samples, the step needed to prove the existence ... more Chasing Dust Devils 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 11, 2008"It's a bit of an art - learning how to drive across dry lake beds at great speed," says Matt Balme. "And it can be quite hairy as well." During the next three years, Balme will spend a lot of time careening across playas and other open, desert areas to better understand dust devils on Mars - how much dust they lift into the atmosphere and how this affects the martian climate. Understanding ... more ROTOZIP Duracut Bit Helps Phoenix Collect Martian Soil Samples 
Mt. Prospect IL (SPX) Aug 11, 2008The ROTOZIP Duracut Zip Bit, paired with a high-speed rasp, has enabled NASA's Phoenix Lander to collect valuable soil samples. NASA scientists confirmed the ROTOZIP-enabled rasp is the first tool in history to successfully cut into the permafrost surface of another planet and acquire a sample for analysis. To date, samples have led to the discovery of water on Mars and helped identify an ... more Opportunity Fights Uphill Battle 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2008"Victoria Crater" continues to challenge Mars rover drivers as they try to find a location where Opportunity can do scientific studies of rocks near the "Cape Verde" cliff face. They have been trying to drive the rover to a location nicknamed "Nevada" after a rock shaped somewhat like the state of Nevada. Getting there, however, has been challenging. After attempting unsuccessfully to ... more |
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Tampa FL (SPX) Aug 06, 20084Frontiers Corporation, a NewSpace technology, entertainment and education company, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $25,000 research grant from the Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC), as part of the Florida Space Research and Education Grant Program. This grant will assist 4Frontiers in pursuing its technology roadmap for Mars settlement technologies. The project's ... more About Water On Mars, The Origins Of Life And The Future Of Earth 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 06, 2008"Martian water has been touched and tasted" by NASA's Phoenix lander spacecraft, which has identified water in a sample of soil collected from Mars. This will expand our so far fragmented and incomplete knowledge about the origins of the Solar System. It will also benefit evolutionary biologists looking for the origins of life. Currently they can study life on Earth, which is not enough ... more Phoenix Mars Team Opens Window On Scientific Process 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2008Phoenix Mars mission scientists spoke today on research in progress concerning an ongoing investigation of perchlorate salts detected in soil analyzed by the wet chemistry laboratory aboard NASA's Phoenix Lander. "Finding perchlorates is neither good nor bad for life, but it does make us reassess how we think about life on Mars," said Michael Hecht of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... more Martian Soil May Contain Toxic Compounds Harmful To Life 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 06, 2008Data gathered by NASA's Phoenix lander on Mars have revealed the red planet's soil could contain a toxic substance that would make it less likely that life formed there. Earlier NASA said Phoenix analyzers detected water in the soil, which suggested that Mars could have the conditions for life. However, if the presence of perchlorate were confirmed, the probability of detecting living ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Jul 31, 2008Mars Express closed in on the intriguing martian moon Phobos at 6:49 CEST on 23 July, flying past at 3 km/s, only 93 km from the moon. The ESA spacecraft's fly-bys of the moon have returned its most detailed full-disc images ever, also in 3-D, using the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board. Phobos is what scientists call a 'small irregular body'. Measuring 27 km × 22 km × 19 km, it is on ... more KODAK Imaging Technology Explores Mars 
Rochester NY (SPX) Jul 30, 2008As the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) approaches the three-year anniversary of its launch, imaging technology from Eastman Kodak continues to enable the orbiter to explore the red planet as never before. Using images captured by KODAK CCD Image Sensors, the orbiter will soon fulfill one of its primary mission objectives - the collection of a full Martian year of weather data for the ... more Phoenix Lander Working With Sticky Soil 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 30, 2008Scientists and engineers on NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission spent the weekend examining how the icy soil on Mars interacts with the scoop on the lander's robotic arm, while trying different techniques to deliver a sample to one of the instruments. "It has really been a science experiment just learning how to interact with the icy soil on Mars -- how it reacts with the scoop, its stickiness ... more Phoenix Revises Method To Deliver Icy Sample 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 29, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm will use a revised collection-and-delivery sequence overnight Sunday with the goal of depositing an icy soil sample in the lander's oven. "We are going to modify the process we ran on Sol 60 to acquire another icy sample and attempt to deliver it to TEGA," the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, said Barry Goldstein, Phoenix project manager from NASA ... more
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