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Online Poll For NASA's Mars Rover Naming Contest Opens March 23
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2009NASA will post online nine names that are finalists for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory mission and invite the public to vote for its favorite. The non-binding poll to help NASA select a name opens online Monday, March 23, and will accept votes through March 29. More than 9,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grades submitted essays proposing names for the rover in a nationwide ... more Mars Rovers Take Stock On Goals And Routes 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2009On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater that has been Opportunity's long-term destination for six months. Opportunity's twin, Spirit, also has a challenging destination, and last week switched to a different route for making progress. E ... more The Salty Tears Of Phoenix Show Liquid Water On Mars 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Mar 19, 2009Salty, liquid water has been detected on a leg of the Mars Phoenix Lander. This is the first time liquid water has been detected and photographed outside the Earth. "A large number of independent physical and thermodynamical evidence shows that saline water may actually be common on Mars," said Nilton Renno - a co-investigator on the Phoenix mission. ... 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 |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 11, 2009NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter properly followed commands today to shut down and restart, a strategy by its engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey's last reboot. The procedure also restored Odyssey's onboard set of backup systems, called the spacecraft's "B side," allowing its use in the future when necessary. "For nearly two years, we have ... more HiRISE Camera Captures Subtle Colors of Mars' Tiny Moon Deimos 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 12, 2009The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, run from The University of Arizona, has produced new images that show subtle color differences across the smooth surface of Deimos, the smaller and outer tiny moon of Mars. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured two images of Deimos using near-infrared, red and blue-green filters on Feb. 21, 2009. ... more NASA postpones Mars Odyssey orbiter reboot
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 |
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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 A Sliver Of A Chance For Life On Mars 
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
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