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Satellite Antenna Enables Discovery Of Buried Glaciers On Mars
Carpinteria CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2009Antenna technology designed and built by Northrop Grumman made it possible for a radar sounder instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to detect huge glaciers on the Red Planet covered by a layer of dust and rocks. The antenna was developed by Astro Aerospace, a business unit of Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems sector, for the Italian Space Agency's SHAllow RADar ... more ISRO Processes Propellant Booster For Mars Program 
Kochi (PTI) Jan 19, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation has recently commissioned a world class solid propellant plant at Sriharikota, where the 200 tonne propellant booster meant for the 'Mars programme' was processed, an official of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre said. "Two months back, we commissioned a world class solid propellant plant at Sriharikota, where we are able to process the 200 tonnes propel ... more Dead Or Alive Mars Pumps Methane 
Greenbelt, MD (GSFC) Jan 16, 2009Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, with an atmosphere so thin, any liquid water on the surface quickly boils away while the sun's ultraviolet radiation scorches the ground. But there is evidence of a warmer and wetter past - features rese ... more Martian methane, latest proof that 'Red Planet' is habitable? 
Washington (AFP) Jan 15, 2009Plumes of methane gas detected on Mars could be a sign of geological or biological activity - and possibly the latest indication that life can be sustained on the Red Planet, according to a new study. The presence of methane implies active geological, or possibly even biological, processes on Mars, and the amount of methane observed on the 'Red Planet' is comparable to some active sites on ... more Santorini Panorama A Subtle Beauty 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2009This panorama shows the vista from which NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity spent five weeks in November and December 2008 while the sun was nearly directly in between Mars and Earth. Opportunity is approaching the fifth anniversary of its landing on Mars, continuing a surface mission that was initially scheduled to last three months. The rover landed on Jan. 24, 2004. Opportu ... more |
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Hartford CT (SPX) Jan 09, 2009Veteran inventor, business pioneer, futurist, and entrepreneur, Eric Knight, unveiled today his concept to enable the human exploration of Mars in a handful of years - instead of the 20-year timetable proposed by NASA and other space authorities. Knight describes his concept in a thought paper entitled: "Mars on a Shoestring: A novel method to transport humans to Mars based on a pair of ... more A Change Of Seasons On Mars 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 08, 2009Summer turned to autumn for the Phoenix Mars Lander on December 26, 2008. This image, taken on December 21 by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the lander during the last waning days of northern hemisphere summer. The image was acquired at 3:31 pm Local Mars Time when the sun was 14-degrees above the horizon. The ima ... more China-Russia Mars mission set for takeoff 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jan 5, 2009The first joint Chinese-Russian mission to Mars is set to take off in October and reach the red planet in August 2010, an exploration project designer said. A Russian Zenit rocket will launch a Chinese Yinghuo-1 satellite and a Russian Phobos-Grunt unmanned lander, Chen Changya, chief designer of the China-Russia Mars exploration project, told Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper. ... more Spirit and Opportunity rovers mark five years on Mars 
Washington (AFP) Jan 4, 2009The US space agency's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity this month mark their fifth anniversary on the Red Planet, where they have endured harsh conditions and revealed a deluge of information. The twin robots, which landed on Mars three weeks apart in January 2004, were initially expected to have just 90-day missions, but have since sent back to Earth a quarter-million images, toured mount ... more |
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Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jan 3, 2008 The unmanned rovers Spirit and Opportunity are showing serious signs of wear after an astounding five years roaming Mars, U.S. space agency officials say. Scientists initially thought the remote-controlled machines would last only three months in Mars' freezing climate, said John Callas, rover project manager at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion laborato ... more ISRO Eyes Lunar Landing In 2012 And Mars Mission In 2013 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 29, 2008Buoyed by the success of Chandrayaan-I, Indian space scientists now plan to conquer new frontiers by sending a robot on moon in 2012 and a spacecraft to Mars the following year which will also see an Indian astronaut in space. Indian Space Research Organisation has lined up a slew of missions which also include landing a spacecraft on an asteroid and sending a probe to fly past a co ... more Mine life may show how Martian life exists 
Tower, Minn. (UPI) Dec 22, 2008 Scientists could learn about Martian water life by plumbing a spring in an iron ore mine in Minnesota's Iron Range, University of Minnesota researchers say. The researchers say microorganisms in the lowest levels of the spring could be a boon for scientists interested in studying possible life on Mars, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Monday, because the mine water was held by rock ... more Ferric Oxides And Sulfates In Equatorial Regions Of Mars 
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 22, 2008Observations made with the OMEGA imaging spectrometer onboard Mars Express reveal very strong signatures of sulfates and ferric oxides in Aram Chaos. Detailed morphological analyses indicate that the concentration of ferric oxides in this region results from the alteration of a sulfate rich sedimentary formation resting on the floor of the crater. These results are reported by M. Masse ... more
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