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Phoenix Site On Mars May Be In Dry Climate Cycle Phase
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2008The Martian arctic soil that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander dug into this year is very cold and very dry. However, when long-term climate cycles make the site warmer, the soil may get moist enough to modify the chemistry, producing effects that persist through the colder times. Phoenix found clues increasing scientists' confidence in predictive models about water vapor moving through the soil ... more Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Completes Prime Mission 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2008NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase. The spacecraft has found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change that produced a diversity of past watery environments. The orbiter has returned 73 terabits of science data, more than all earlier Mars missions combined. The spacecraft will build on this record as it continues to examine Mars ... more 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 |
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Paris, France (ESA) Dec 08, 2008March 2009 will see two European participants entering a set of modules at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow. Together with four Russian participants, they will be sealed inside these isolation chambers for 105 days. This joint ESA IBMP campaign is a preparatory study leading up to the 520-day isolation study in the form of a full-fledged simulation of a mission to Mars ... more Mars Science Lab Launch Delayed Two Years 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 05, 2008NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in the fall of 2011. The mission will send a next-generation rover with unprecedented research tools to study the early environmental history of Mars. A launch date of October 2009 no longer is feasible because of testing and hardware challenges that must be addressed to ensure mission success. The window ... more Simulating Mars On Earth 
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 |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 02, 2008Opportunity is getting ready for solar conjunction, the time when the Sun is in the line of sight between Earth and Mars. During this two-week period, from Nov. 30, 2008 to Dec. 13, 2008, the mission team will not send new commands to the rover. The science team plans to position Opportunity on a rock outcrop, possibly near a cobble the rover can study with the Moessbauer spectrometer, during th ... more Dawn Set For Mars Flyby 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 02, 2008The Dawn spacecraft is healthy and on course for its flyby of Mars early next year. The planet's gravity will help boost the probe on its way to rendezvous with Vesta. While the spacecraft has its sights set on the asteroid belt (via Mars), its path is now bringing it closer to Earth. Meanwhile, from Earth's perspective, Dawn appears to be approaching a blindingly close encounter with the Sun. ... more PolyU Gears Up For Sino-Russian Interplanetary Space Mission 
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
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