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Ice-Covered Martian North Pole
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 10, 2009ESA's Mars Express orbiter imaged the snow-laden region of Rupes Tenuis on the martian north pole on 29 July 2008. The images are centred around 81 degrees north and 297 degrees east and have a ground resolution of 41 m/pixel. They cover an area of about 44 000 km2, almost as large as the Netherlands. Rupes Tenuis is located at the southern edge of the martian north polar cap, approx ... more Opportunity's New Software Working Fine - sol 1811-1817 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2009Opportunity continues to exhibit elevated motor current in the drive actuator of the right-front wheel. To mitigate this, the rover has been driving backward. This week, Opportunity built and booted new flight software, version R9.3. After a build activity on Sol 1811 (Feb. 26, 2009), Opportunity booted onto the R9.3 flight software on Sol 1814 (March 1, 2009). The new software has been wo ... more Alien Safari Part 5: Alien Vs Predator 
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2009Q: There's controversy about the manned exploration of space versus sending robots. What are your feelings about that as we plan exploration over the next several decades? Tori Hoehler: I think the question of manned exploration crystallizes around Mars. That's the one that lies within the realm of feasibility. If you look at what we understand about the potential for life on Mars, NASA ha ... more Spirit Makes Slight Progress on New Route - sol 1831-1837 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2009After initially making good progress on a new route around "Home Plate" to the east, Spirit has been struggling in local terrain on the northeast corner of Home Plate. The route is difficult because the direction is up-slope with a lot of loose, fine material denying the five-driving-wheel rover good traction. After getting about 15 meters (49 feet) away from Home Plate last week in ... more Mars, Then and Now: Google Mars Update 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2009Today, NASA and Google announce an update to Mars in Google Earth, a 3D mapping tool for the Red Planet. Originally released with Google Earth 5.0, Mars in Google Earth now contains even more features that give users a sense of how our knowledge of Mars, and our study of astronomy, has evolved over time. After selecting 'Mars' from the toolbar in Google Earth, users fly to a 3D view of the ... more |
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Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 The U.S. space agency says it has delayed a scheduled computer rebooting of its Mars Odyssey orbiter. The reboot postponement occurred after National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists saw an unexpected rise in the temperature of a camera that is part of the spacecraft's navigation system. NASA said the Odyssey scientific team has concluded the star camera and the spacecraf ... more Mars500 Crew Locked For 105 Days In Simulator 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 06, 2009On 31 March, a crew of six, including a French pilot and a German engineer, will embark on a 105-day simulated Mars mission. They will enter a special facility at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow, to emerge only three months later. Their mission will help in understanding the psychological and medical aspects of long-duration spaceflight. Media representatives are invi ... more 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 |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2009The Phoenix Mars Lander ended its mission last November, but scientists are still pondering the data. One intriguing discovery was a nightly cycle in which water vapor in the atmosphere collapsed into the martian soil. One researcher thinks this may hint of dew-like films that could have supported life in a previous martian climate. Phoenix landed on Mars on May 25, 2008. It was the first ... more Orbiter Puts Itself Into Precautionary Mode 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2009NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter unexpectedly rebooted its computer Monday morning, Feb. 23, and put itself into a limited-activity mode that is an automated safety response. The mission's flight-team engineers are examining possible causes of the event while planning to prepare the spacecraft to resume its scientific investigations of Mars. There has been no reoccurrence of the reboot e ... more Europe names crew for Mars 'mission' 
Paris (AFP) Feb 26, 2009The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday named a Frenchman and a German who will join four Russians in an innovative 105-day isolation experiment to test whether humans can one day fly to Mars. From March 31, the six "crew" will be locked inside a special facility in Moscow that replicates conditions of a space trip to Mars. The simulation will be followed by a 520-day experiment, start ... more Scientists Possibly Find Why Asteroids Are Missing 
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
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