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Early Attempts To Contact Aliens
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2009The desire to contact intelligent life on other planets is much older than the UFO craze and the SETI movement. Several 19th century scientists contemplated how we might communicate with possible Martians and Venusians. These early proposals - which predate by 150 years the first extraterrestrial message that was sent in 1974 - were based on visual signals, as the invention of radio was ... more Mars Rover Team Diagnosing Unexpected Behavior 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 29, 2009The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit plans diagnostic tests this week after Spirit did not report some of its weekend activities, including a request to determine its orientation after an incomplete drive. On Sunday, during the 1,800th Martian day, or sol, of what was initially planned as a 90-sol mission on Mars, information radioed from Spirit indicated the rover had ... more NASA-Derived Technology Captures Unique Inaugural Image 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 29, 2009NASA spinoff technology from the Mars exploration rovers was used to capture a unique panoramic image of President Obama's inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20. A photographer at the inauguration, David Bergman, used the Gigapan camera system to generate an image from a press platform. The resulting picture is a combination of 220 images with an overall size of 1,474 mega ... more USRA Selects Awardees For LCROSS Observation Campaign 
Columbia MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2009The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is proud to announce the selection for funding of four proposals for scientific activities to be carried out under the LCROSS Observation Campaign. The Observation Campaign is part of the NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) project which is designed to verify the presence or absence of water ice on the Moon. Sche ... more Opportunity Has A Post-Solar Conjunction Hangover 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2009As soon as Opportunity came out of solar conjunction - a period when the Sun passes between Earth and Mars and prohibits communication - engineers discovered that the rover's computer memory was a bit too full for comfort. They spent the first two days after conjunction minimizing data generation on Mars and planned to spend another two days doing the same. The purpose of the slowdown was ... more |
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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 Martian Rock Arrangement Not Alien Handiwork 
Calgary, Canada (SPX) Jan 13, 2009At first, figuring out how pebble-sized rocks organize themselves in evenly-spaced patterns in sand seemed simple and even intuitive. But once Andrew Leier, an assistant geoscience professor at the U of C, started observing, he discovered that the most commonly held notions did not apply. And even more surprising, was that his findings revealed answers to NASA's questions about sediment tr ... more |
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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 China Lauds NASA Mars Rovers Five Year Marker 
Washington (XNA) Jan 05, 2009Mars probe has extended mankind's endless dream of exploring the mysterious universe five years after NASA's rover Spirit landed safely on the planet Mars. The Spirit reached Mars on Jan. 3, 2004, followed by its twin Opportunity three weeks later. Though the duo was expected to work for only three months, they have already functioned five years and may make bigger achievements in the futu ... more
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