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Soil Studies Continue At Phoenix Mars Lander Site
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2008Vibration of the screen above a laboratory oven on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Saturday, Aug. 9, succeeded in getting enough soil into the oven to begin analysis. Commands were sent for the lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) to begin analysis Sunday of the soil sample from a trench called "Rosy Red." Phoenix's robotic arm delivered soil Thursday from the Rosy Red trench ... more Preparation Begins For New European Space Mission To Mars 
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 12, 2008Scientists searching for life on Mars are now preparing for the most in-depth probe of the Red Planet ever undertaken. The European Space Agency's ExoMars mission will search for evidence that life may exist, investigate the Martian upper atmosphere, and analyse the physical characteristics and properties of the planet's surface and interior. With a scheduled launch date of 2013 ... more 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 |
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Mountain View CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2008Layers of clay-rich rock have been found in Mars' Mawrth Vallis, a potential landing site for future rovers. This work, published in the August 8 issue of Science, suggests that abundant water was once present on Mars and that hydrothermal activity may have occurred. The Mawrth Vallis outflow channel is a feature in Mars' northern highland region, a heavily cratered, ancient area of the ... more Perchlorate salts: a major find on Mars 
Tucson (UPI) Aug 6, 2008 U.S. space agency scientists say the discovery of perchlorate salts on Mars makes them reassess how they think about possible Martian life. Scientists involved with the Phoenix Mars Lander mission met Tuesday in an ongoing investigation of perchlorate salts detected in soil analyzed by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory. The discovery of Martian perchlorates is exciting ... more 4Frontiers Awarded Grant To Investigate Mars Greenhouse Materials 
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 |
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Los Angeles (AFP) July 31, 2008NASA scientists said Thursday the agency was extending the Mars mission of its Phoenix lander until the end of September, describing its progress so far as "very successful." Michael Meyer, chief scientist of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, told reporters at a briefing that the minimum objectives of the lander's mission had been achieved and that "full mission success" was expected. ... more Mission Extended As Phoenix Confirms Martian Water 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 01, 2008Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples. "We have water," said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. "We've seen evidence for this ... more Mars Express Acquires Sharpest Images Of Martian Moon Phobos 
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
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