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UA Projects Make Time List Of Top Science Discoveries
Tempe AZ (SPX) Dec 12, 2008Two international science projects - one led by The University of Arizona, and one with considerable UA involvement - lead Time Magazine's list of Top 10 Scientific Discoveries, crowning a year of unprecedented science achievement for Arizona's land grant university. Time ranked the Large Hadron Collider - the massive particle acclerator straddling the Swiss-French border - at the top of ... more Important Role Of Groundwater Springs In Shaping Mars 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 12, 2008Data and images from Mars Express suggest that several Light Toned Deposits, some of the least understood features on Mars, were formed when large amounts of groundwater burst on to the surface. Scientists propose that groundwater had a greater role in shaping the martian surface than previously believed, and may have sheltered primitive life forms as the planet started drying up. ... more European Mars500 Participants Announced 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 12, 2008The final four Europeans who are set to take part in a 105-day simulated Mars mission were presented to the media in Paris today. From March next year, two of the group will join four Russian participants inside an isolation facility in Moscow. A selection process which started with 5600 applicants has now been finalised with the presentation today of the final four participants at ESA's ... more HiRISE Camera Captures High-Resolution 3D Images Of Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2008The High Resolution Science Imaging Experiment, or HiRISE, team based at The University of Arizona have released 362 three-dimensional images of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Other Mars-orbiting cameras have taken 3D views of Mars, but the HiRISE camera - the most powerful camera ever to orbit another planet - can resolve features as small as one me ... more China To Launch Probe To Mars With Russian Help In 2009 
Beijing (RIA Novosti) Dec 08, 2008China will send a space probe to Mars with Russia's assistance in October 2009, a Chinese newspaper said on Friday. Russia and China signed a cooperative agreement on the joint exploration of Mars on March 26, 2007. The project includes the launch of the Yinghuo-1 Chinese-made Mars probe. Yinghuo-1 and the Russian Phobos-Grunt probe will be sent together to Mars on a Russian Zenit ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2008The possibility of life on Mars has been debated almost since the invention of the telescope-annual growth and shrinkage of the martian ice caps and seasonal changes in color were observed by astronomers such as Herschel and Whewell in the 18th and 19th centuries. Late in the 19th century, Schiaparelli reported the existence of linear features he called "canali", and this led to ... more NASA delays Mars mission until 2011 
Washington (AFP) Dec 4, 2008US space agency NASA delayed a landmark mission to Mars by 26 months on Thursday, adding another 400 million dollars to the already over-budget project to see if the red planet can support life, officials said. "We will not be ready to launch Mars Science Lab by the hoped-for date next year," NASA administrator Michael Griffin told a news conference. A 2009 launch was ruled because it "would ... more Ancient Climate Cycles Recorded In Mars Rocks 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2008Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues have found evidence of ancient climate change on Mars caused by regular variation in the planet's tilt, or obliquity. On Earth, similar "astronomical forcing" of climate drives ice-age cycles. Using stereo topographic maps obtained by processing data from the high-resolution camera onboard NASA's Mars ... more NASA Finishes Listening For Phoenix Mars Lander 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2008After nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the lander and listen for its beep. As expected, reduced daily sunshine eventually left the solar-powered Phoenix craft without enough energy to keep its batteries charged. The final communication from ... more |
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Hong Kong (SPX) Dec 01, 2008The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is working closely with the well-established Russian Space Agency in designing a state-of-the-art space tool which will be carried onboard a Russian spacecraft for the Red Planet in the 2009 Sino-Russian Space Mission - the first strategic interplanetary collaboration between China and Russia. This historical mission also marks the first ... more 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
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