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Mars Rover Spirit Faces Circuitous Route
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2009Loose soil piled against the northern edge of a low plateau called "Home Plate" has blocked NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit from taking the shortest route toward its southward destinations for the upcoming Martian summer and following winter. The rover has begun a trek skirting at least partway around the plateau instead of directly over it. However, Spirit has also gotten a jum ... more Rice Study Hints At Water - And Life - Under Olympus Mons 
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 05, 2009The Martian volcano Olympus Mons is about three times the height of Mount Everest, but it's the small details that Rice University professors Patrick McGovern and Julia Morgan are looking at in thinking about whether the Red Planet ever had - or still supports - life. Using a computer modeling system to figure out how Olympus Mons came to be, McGovern and Morgan reached the surprising conc ... more Mars Odyssey Mission Status Report 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2009The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter plans a procedure next week to address a long-known, potential vulnerability of accumulated memory corruption. The procedure requires rebooting the spacecraft's computer. This is not a risk-free event, but the Odyssey team and NASA have carefully weighed the risks of performing a cold reboot compared with the risk of doing nothing, and determi ... more Gullies On Mars Show Tantalizing Signs Of Recent Water Activity 
Providence RI (SPX) Mar 03, 2009Planetary geologists at Brown University have found a gully fan system on Mars that formed about 1.25 million years ago. The fan offers compelling evidence that it was formed by melt water that originated in nearby snow and ice deposits and may stand as the most recent period when water flowed on the planet. Gullies are known to be young surface features on Mars. But scientists studying th ... more Final European Crewmembers Announced For Human Mars Mission Simulation 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 02, 2009ESA has announced the European prime and backup crewmembers for the 105-day Mars500 study. From 31 March 2009, two Europeans are set to join four Russian crewmembers on a simulated human mission to Mars. After a selection process which started with some 5600 applicants, the final four European candidates began training for the Mars mission simulation last month. From these four candi ... more |
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Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 26, 2009University of Arizona scientists have uncovered a curious case of missing asteroids. The main asteroid belt is a zone containing millions of rocky objects between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The scientists find that there ought to be more asteroids there than researchers observe. The missing asteroids may be evidence of an event that took place about 4 billion years ago, when the solar ... more Fractured Lavas Suggest Floods On Mars 
Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Feb 26, 2009Unique fractures in lavas on ancient Mars suggest water occasionally flooded portions of the planet's surface. The fractures, known as "columnar joints", are the first that have been observed on a planet other than Earth. "Columnar joints form as cooling lava contracts," explains Moses Milazzo, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff. The characteristics of the column ... more Phoenix Mars Lander Team Wins 2009 Swigert Award 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 24, 2009The Space Foundation has awarded its 2009 John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander team "in recognition of the technical developments that led to one of the most startling and meaningful discoveries of the new millennium," the Space Foundation has announced. The award will be presented at the foundation's 25th National Space Symposium to be ... more Dawn Spacecraft View Of Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2009This near-infrared image from the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft was taken near the point of closest approach to Mars on Feb. 17, 2009, during Dawn's gravity assist flyby. The image, taken for calibration purposes, shows a portion of the fretted and cratered northwest margin of Tempe Terra, Mars. The scarp of the highlands/ lowlands boundary is illuminated by the light of ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2009A new detailed map of the Moon released Thursday shows the Earth's satellite holds very little water and reveals never-before seen craters at the poles, an international research team said. "The surface can tell us a lot about what's happening inside the Moon, but until now mapping has been very limited," C.K Shum, professor of Earth sciences at Ohio State University, said in the February 13 ... more NASA Spacecraft Falling For Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2009Launched in September of 2007, and propelled by any one of a trio of hyper-efficient ion engines, NASA's Dawn spacecraft passed the orbit of Mars last summer. At that time, the asteroid belt (where Dawn's two targets, asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres reside), had never been closer. In early July the spacecraft began to lose altitude, falling back towards the inner solar system. ... more Martian winds help Earth's rover Spirit 
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Feb 12, 2009 Martian wind guests have removed some dust from the U.S. space agency's Mars rover Spirit, increasing its electrical output, NASA says. NASA scientists said the cleaning boosts Spirit's daily energy supply to about 240 watt-hours from 210 watt-hours. The rover uses approximately 180 watt-hours daily for basic survival and communications. ... more CSIRO Helps Mars With Sustainable Food Production 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Feb 13, 2009A research partnership between CSIRO and Mars Australia has produced a database and information toolkit that will be available to a wide range of food businesses to help improve their sustainability strategies. "CSIRO has worked with Mars to produce 'life cycle analyses' on a range of Mars's food products that are relevant to almost every major food commodity produced in Australia," said ... more
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