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Paris (AFP) Sept 5, 2008A European spacecraft racing through the asteroid belt skimmed past a 10-kilometre (six-mile) space rock on Friday to carry out its first scientific work in a decade-long trek into the Solar System, mission controllers said. In a minutely choreographed operation, the one-billion-euro (1.45-billion-dollar) unmanned probe Rosetta - launched in 2004 by the European Space Agency ... more Spirit Still Biding Time 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2008Spirit continues to ride out the Martian winter by doing minimal activities to conserve power. The rover completes very light science observations every three to four Martian days, known as sols, and relays data to NASA's Odyssey orbiter to be transmitted to Earth every four sols. Otherwise, Spirit mostly sleeps. This pattern is not likely to change until sunlight on the rover's solar ... more Spiky Probe On Phoenix Raises Vapor Quandary 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 05, 2008A fork-like conductivity probe has sensed humidity rising and falling beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, but when stuck into the ground, its measurements so far indicate soil that is thoroughly and perplexingly dry. "If you have water vapor in the air, every surface exposed to that air will have water molecules adhere to it that are somewhat mobile, even at temperatures well below freezing ... more Opportunity To Exit Victoria Crater 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2008Like a backpacker hiking up a steep grade, Opportunity has been trying to gain elevation using a "switchback" approach inside "Victoria Crater." The rover's goal was to zigzag back and forth across a steep slope toward an outcrop nicknamed "Nevada," where scientists had hoped to do scientific analysis and collect high-resolution, panoramic images of the cliff face known as "Cape Verde." ... more Billion-dollar European probe set for asteroid encounter 
Paris (AFP) Sept 3, 2008Far from Earth, a robot spacecraft has been prodded from deep slumber to make a rare encounter with an asteroid, the intriguing orbital debris that could offer clues into the making of the Solar System. The pride of the European Space Agency (ESA), the probe Rosetta has been ordered out of hibernation four and a half years into a 10-year trek that will take it into the dark chill of deep ... more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 03, 2008The single-piece primary and tertiary mirror blank cast for the LSST is "perfect", say project astronomers and engineers. The LSST, or Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a large survey telescope being built in northern Chile, requires three large mirrors to give crisp images over a record large field of view. The two largest of these mirrors are concentric and fit neatly onto a single mirror ... more Mars Research In Polar Bear Country 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 02, 2008Hans Amundsen is a Norwegian geologist and the expedition leader of AMASE (Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition). AMASE is an international, interdisciplinary scientific research project that since 2003 has traveled to Svalbard, a group of islands in the High Arctic that provides some of the best sites on Earth for doing Mars-related field research. Among the most valuable geologic ... more Taking The Opportunity To Escape From Crater Victoria 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2008NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers. Opportunity will continue its mission to characterize the environment of Mars and help scientists determine if the planet could have been a habitat for past life in our solar system. "We've do ... more Phoenix Mission Conducting Extended Activities On Mars 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 01, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, having completed its 90-day primary mission, is continuing its science collection activities. Science and engineering teams are looking forward to at least another month of Martian exploration. Due to the spacecraft's sufficient power and experiment capacity, NASA announced on July 31 that the mission would continue operations through Sept. 30. Once the lander ... more |
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Dallas TX (SPX) Aug 28, 2008Water on Mars? Scientists suspected the presence of H2O on the surface of our planetary next-door neighbor, but it took a series of tests and University of Texas at Dallas Professor John Hoffman's instrument aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to prove it. Hoffman will tell audiences at the Museum of Nature and Science on Aug. 30 how he and his team made one of this century's first major ... more NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing Out Of Crater 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2008NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers. "We've done everything we entered Victoria Crater to do and more," said Bruce Banerdt, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Banerdt is project scientist for Opportunity and ... more Ice Cold Sunrise On Mars 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 27, 2008From the location of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, above the Martian arctic circle, the sun does not set during the peak of the Martian summer. This period of maximum solar energy is past -- on Sol 86, the 86th Martian day after the Phoenix landing, the sun fully set behind a slight rise to the north for about half an hour. This red-filter image taken by the lander's Surface Stereo ... more Dawn Advances Slowly 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2008The Dawn spacecraft continues to make good progress on its adventure to unlock scientific secrets hidden deep in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. Its path to that distant realm of the solar system is now bringing it closer to the Sun, and thanks in part to all the thrusting it has accomplished with its remarkable ion propulsion system, it has recently achieved its lowest speed ... more
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