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Phoenix Lander Winds Up Its Astonishing Summer On Mars
Tempe AZ (SPX) Nov 27, 2008Mars has slipped far enough behind the sun today that signals from Mars-orbiting spacecraft are effectively blocked until mid-December. This solar conjunction happens every two years. Mars mission scientists - including the University of Arizona-based team that runs the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - will resume ... more Public Presentation About Mars Orbiter Images And Findings 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2008Mars scientists will present dramatic images and key findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at a free evening program in Pasadena on Thursday, Dec. 4, celebrating completion of the mission's first two-year science phase. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has already collected more data than all other past and current Mars missions combined. Its findings point to a complex history ... more New tool to help find hidden meteorite craters 
Ottawa (AFP) Nov 25, 2008Meteorite craters are a rare find on Earth, numbering only 175 at last count, but a Canadian researcher unveiled Tuesday a new computer tool for locating hundreds more from even the tiniest of clues. According to observations of the Moon and Mars, a small meteorite is predicted to impact Earth every 10 years. Mars Orbiter Camera has shown, for example, that at least 20 such impacts formed on ... more Solar Wind Rips Up Martian Atmosphere 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 25, 2008Researchers have found new evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is being stripped away by solar wind. It's not a gently continuous erosion, but rather a ripping process in which chunks of Martian air detach themselves from the planet and tumble into deep space. This surprising mechanism could help solve a longstanding mystery about the Red Planet. "It helps explain why Mars has so ... more Solar Wind Rips Up Martian Atmosphere 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 24, 2008Researchers have found new evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is being stripped away by solar wind. It's not a gently continuous erosion, but rather a ripping process in which chunks of Martian air detach themselves from the planet and tumble into deep space. This surprising mechanism could help solve a longstanding mystery about the Red Planet. "It helps explain why Mars has so little a ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2008NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet. Scientists analyzed data from the spacecraft's ground-penetrating radar and report in the Nov. 21 issue of the journal Science that buried glaciers extend for dozens of miles from the edges ... more NASA marks 10th ISS anniversary with spacewalk 
Washington (AFP) Nov 20, 2008Astronauts from the shuttle Endeavour marked the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station Thursday by exiting the station for the second of four spacewalks. The US space agency NASA said astronauts Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper and Shane Kimbrough left the ISS decompression chamber at 1658 GMT, some 45 minutes earlier than planned, for a spacewalk to last about 6.5 hours. ... more Evidence of vast frozen water reserves on Mars: scientists 
Washington (AFP) Nov 20, 2008NASA scientists have discovered enormous underground reservoirs of frozen water on Mars, away from its polar caps, in the latest sign that life might be sustainable on the Red planet. Ground-penetrating radar used by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals numerous huge glaciers up to one half-mile thick buried beneath layers of rock and debris. Researchers said one glacier is three time ... more Baking The Rover Is Not An Option 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2008The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), scheduled to launch in fall 2009, will follow the Mars Exploration Rovers and the Phoenix Lander to help determine if Mars is habitable for life. MSL's instrument package will be able to effectively "see and taste" the martian environment with more accuracy than previous missions. Some instruments will be so sensitive they will be able to pick out a ... more |
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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 India Rejoices Over Moon Probe Landing 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 15, 2008India rejoiced Saturday over the landing of a lunar probe on the moon's surface that vaulted the country into the league of space-faring nations like the United States, Russia and Japan. The TV set-sized probe, painted in the green-white-and-orange colours of the Indian flag, made a "precise-to-the-second" landing on the lunar surface late Friday after being released from the unmanned moon-orbiter ... more
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