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Students Invited To Name New Mars Rover
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 19, 2008NASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover. NASA, in cooperation with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' movie WALL-E from Pixar Animation Studios, will conduct a naming contest for its car-sized Mars Science Laboratory rover that is scheduled for launch in 2009. The contest begins Tuesday, Nov. 18, and is open to students 5 to 18 years ... more Gamma-Ray Evidence Suggests Ancient Mars Had Oceans 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 18, 2008An international team of scientists who analyzed data from the Gamma Ray Spectrometer onboard NASA's Mars Odyssey reports new evidence for the controversial idea that oceans once covered about a third of ancient Mars. "We compared Gamma Ray Spectrometer data on potassium, thorium and iron above and below a shoreline believed to mark an ancient ocean that covered a third of Mars' surface ... more Carbonate Conundrum 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2008Mars is good at keeping its secrets. As a case in point, consider the discovery by NASA's Phoenix lander of carbonates in the planet's northern polar plains. The goal of the Phoenix mission was to understand the historic role of water in the frozen martian north, and to assess the region's habitability. Carbonates form in the presence of water. So one might think that their discovery is ... more Space Software To Control Digital TV Broadcasting 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 17, 2008Imagine how difficult it is to control a spacecraft thousands of miles away, ensure it arrives at the right location and then get the scientific and photographic equipment up and running. To do this highly sophisticated software is needed; software that can also be used on Earth to manage equally complex TV terrestrial broadcasting. British company SciSys has provided software for a number ... more Mars Rover Team Sets Low-Power Plan For Spirit 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2008After assessing data received from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on Thursday, mission controllers laid out plans for the rover to conserve its modest energy during the next few weeks. Spirit's solar panels produced 161 watt hours of energy on the Martian day that ended Thursday, under a sky that had cleared appreciably from four days earlier, when a dust storm slashed energy output ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2008NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of "She's talking!" among the rover team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "This means Spirit has not gone into a fault condition and is still being controlled by sequences we send from the ground," said John ... more Indian Probe Impacts Moon 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Nov 14, 2008An Indian probe landed on the moon on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation announced, in a milestone for the country's 45-year-old space programme. The probe touched down on the moon at 8:34pm (1504 GMT), 25 minutes after it was ejected from an unmanned spacecraft orbiting the moon, spokesman S. Satish said. "During its descent from Chandrayaan-1 an onboard video camera transmi ... more India to take second moon shot by 2012, eyes Mars 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 13, 2008Buoyed by the success of its maiden lunar mission, India on Thursday said it will send a second unmanned spacecraft to the moon by 2012. The announcement came less than a week after Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned spacecraft, entered lunar orbit for the start of a two-year mission. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the second spacecraft would also place a probe on ... more A Divining Rod For Mars 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2008Detecting water underground does not require a magical stick. Neutrons reflecting out of the soil can indicate the presence of water or ice. A novel instrument that can detect those neutrons is planned for NASA's next rover mission to Mars. Because neutrons penetrate most materials, neutron beams and detectors are often used to study crystal structure, as well as explore oil and mineral ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Nov 10, 2008European scientists said they had selected a shortlist of eight men Monday willing to take part in a 105-day isolation experiment to further knowledge about the stress of a manned trip to Mars. Six of the eight candidates will be chosen to live, eat, sleep and work inside a sealed laboratory in Moscow that will simulate a Martian mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. Their stay ... more Spirit Begins Driving Uphill 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2008With the Sun moving higher in the sky, Spirit's solar panels must move in the same direction to maximize their exposure to sunlight. To achieve optimal solar input, the panels still must tilt to the north, but not as steeply as before. To change the tilt, rover drivers have begun moving Spirit back upslope toward the top of "Home Plate." Their goal is to reduce the rover's northerly tilt ... more Farewell, Victoria, And On To Endeavour 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2008Opportunity took the last images of "Victoria Crater" before beginning the journey to Endeavour Crater. The final focus of the rover's cameras was a cliff at the edge of Victoria nicknamed "Cape Victory." After spending more than two years investigating this spectacular crater, Opportunity took parting images as Victoria disappeared into the distance. The rover first arrived at the ... more Mars Phoenix Lander Finishes Successful Work On Red Planet 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months. As anticipated, seasonal decline in sunshine at the robot's arctic landing site is not providing enough sunlight for the solar arrays to collect the power necessary to charge batteries that operate the lander's instruments. Mission engineers last received a signal from the lander on Nov. 2. ... more
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