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Looking For Life On Mars - In A Canadian Lake
Moffett Filed CA (SPX) Sep 12, 2008On the surface, Pavilion Lake, nestled among the peaks of Canada's Marble Range, looks like a thousand other mountain lakes. It's not unusually large or deep. It's not especially acidic, or alkaline; it's not overly salty; nor are there high concentrations of minerals dissolved in its water. Locals come here to fish, to boat, to swim, and to watch the summer clouds drift by. But underwater ... more Next Mars Soil Scoop Slated For Last Wet Lab Cell 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 11, 2008The next soil sample that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will deliver to its deck instruments will go to the fourth of the four cells of Phoenix's wet chemistry laboratory, according to the Phoenix team's current plans. The chosen source for that sample is from the "Snow White" trench on the eastern end of the work area reachable with Phoenix's robotic arm. In July that trench yielded a ... more Underneath Phoenix Lander 97 Sols After Touchdown 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 10, 2008The Robotic Arm Camera on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander took this image on Sept. 1, 2008, at about 4 a.m. local solar time during the 97th Martian day, or sol, since landing. The view underneath the lander shows growth of the clumps adhering to leg strut (upper left) compared with what was present when a similar image was taken about three months earlier. The view in this Sol 97 image is south ... more Mars Valleys Formed During Long Period Of Episodic Flooding 
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Sep 09, 2008A new study suggests that ancient features on the surface of Mars called valley networks were carved by recurrent floods during a long period when the martian climate may have been much like that of some arid or semi-arid regions on Earth. An alternative theory that the valleys were carved by catastrophic flooding over a relatively short time is not supported by the new results. ... more Rosetta Swings By Asteroid Steins 2867 On Route To Comet Churyumov 
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 |
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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 Phoenix Mission Conducting Extended Activities On Mars 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 03, 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 Phoenix Analyzing Deepest Soil Sample Yet 
Tucson, AZ (JPL) Sep 03, 2008Scientists have begun to analyze a sample of soil delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug so far in the Martian arctic plains. Phoenix has also been observing movement of clouds overhead. The lander's robotic arm on Sunday sprinkled a small fraction of the estimated 50 cubic centimeters of soil that had been scooped up from the ... more Opportunity Facing New Challenges After Victoria Detour 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2008Opportunity faces several challenges on the way out of "Victoria Crater" but continues to make steady progress. The first of these is a traverse of approximately 10 meters (30 feet, a little longer than a double-decker bus) across a sandy, 17-degree slope. Opportunity is more than halfway through that part of the journey. The next is a drive across 30 to 50 meters (100 to 160 feet) ... more |
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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 NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends To Level Ground 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2008NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has climbed out of the large crater that it had been examining from the inside since last September. "The rover is back on flat ground," an engineer who drives it, Paolo Bellutta of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, announced to the mission's international team of scientists and engineers. Opportunity used its own entry tracks from nearly a ... more Antarctic Research Helps Shed Light On Climate Change On Mars 
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 01, 2008Researchers examining images of gullies on the flanks of craters on Mars say they formed as recently as a few hundred thousand years ago and in sites once occupied by glaciers. The features are eerily reminiscent of gullies formed in Antarctica's mars-like McMurdo Dry Valleys. The parallels between the Martian gullies and those in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys were made using the latest ... more Phoenix Lander Pictures Show Robotic Arm's Workspace After 90 Sols 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 29, 2008New pictures from NASA's Phoenix Lander show just what a busy summer the spacecraft on Mars - and its science team at The University of Arizona in Tucson - has been having. During the first 90 Martian days, or sols, after its May 25, 2008, landing on an arctic plain of Mars, the lander dug several trenches in the workspace reachable for its robotic arm. The lander's Surface Stereo ... more
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