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Spirit Sets Distance Record For Five-Wheel Driving
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2009Spirit is making good progress around Home Plate to the west. After getting clear of troublesome rocks, Spirit drove 13.8 meters (45.3 feet) on Sol 1854 (March 21, 2009). The next drive, on Sol 1856 (March 23, 2009) , achieved a new distance record for five-wheel driving. Spirit drove 25.82 meters (84.7 feet), beating the old record by about a meter. Spirit completed another drive of ... more Opportunity Brushing and Examining an Outcrop 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2009Opportunity remains positioned on an exposed rock outcrop, continuing an "in situ" (contact) science campaign with the robotic arm (IDD). On Sol 1832 (March 20, 2009), the first part of a rock abrasion tool (RAT) brushing activity was performed. Using a new work-around for the failed RAT Z-encoder, the RAT successfully performed a seek-scan to locate the rock surface. On the next sol ... more Russian-European Crew Starts Mars Mission 
Moscow, Russia (ESA) Apr 02, 2009Earlier today, a crew of six, including two ESA-selected participants and four Russians, embarked on a simulated mission to Mars. Although they will not leave the confines of a dedicated isolation facility in Moscow for 105 days, their mission will help prepare for a real human mission to Mars in the future. At 12:00 CEST (14:00 local time), once all six crewmembers had entered the special ... more Bright Soil Churned By Spirit's Sol 1861 Drive 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2009NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove 22.7 meters (74 feet) toward the southwest on the 1,861st Martian day, or sol, of Spirit's mission on Mars (March 28, 2009). After the drive, the rover took this image with its front hazard-avoidance camera, looking back at the tracks from the drive. As usual since losing the use of its right-front wheel in 2006, Spirit drove backwards. The ... more Russia locks up six for Mars experiment 
Moscow (AFP) March 31, 2009The hatch slammed shut Tuesday behind six volunteers from Europe and Russia who will spend three months isolated in a capsule in Moscow to simulate conditions for a manned mission to Mars. The two Europeans and four Russians must now live in the cramped facility until the experiment ends 105 days later, allowing scientists to assess the effects of long duration space flight on their minds ... more |
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Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 27, 2009Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 27, 2009 The High Resolution Imaging Experiment, or HiRISE, run from The University of Arizona, is seeing signs of spring on Mars. The signs are absolutely martian and unearthly. The HiRISE team has released new high-resolution images of terrain at Mars' south polar region taken last month by their camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. "Spring on Mars ... more Mars Rovers Powering On After 5 years 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 27, 2009In January 2004, NASA landed two identical robotic rovers named Spirit and Opportunity on the surface of Mars. The twins were primed for a brief 3-month mission to tell us a story of water and possibly life itself in the planet's past. More than five years later, the dynamic duo are still roving the Red Planet, engaged in a saga of overachievement that has transformed Mars exploration. ... more Opportunity At Outcrop - Endeavour In Sight - Sol 1824-1831 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2009Opportunity has positioned itself at an exposed rock outcrop and is in the middle of an "in situ" (contact) science campaign with the robotic arm (IDD). Because of the project team's desire to rest the right-front wheel actuator and to limit driving while an earlier drive sequence error is remedied, Opportunity took advantage of the nearby rock outcrop. This fits with the strategic science ... more Discovery astronauts complete final spacewalk 
Washington (AFP) March 23, 2009Discovery astronauts ended their third and final spacewalk on Monday on a slight down note, unable to fix a jammed cargo carrier system, NASA said. Richard Arnold and Joseph Acaba, two former science teachers turned astronauts, carried out a six-and-a-half hour walk in space, which included attempts to unblock the external cargo carrier. The carrier became stuck after Acaba and another ... more |
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Washington (AFP) March 23, 2009Discovery astronauts ended their third and final space walk on Monday on a slight down note, unable to fix a jammed v,cargo carrier system, NASA said. Richard Arnold and Joseph Acaba, two former science teachers turned astronauts, carried out a six-and-a-half hour walk in space, which included attempts to unblock the external cargo carrier. The carrier became stuck after Acaba and anothe ... more Discovery, space station maneuver to dodge debris 
Washington (AFP) March 23, 2009Discovery and the International Space Station maneuvered to avoid debris during Monday's spacewalk, dropping into a lower orbit, NASA officials said. Firing its steering jets, Discovery turned the shuttle and space station 180 degrees for three hours Sunday to increase drag, a maneuver designed to alter the vessel's trajectory and avoid an approaching piece of debris. The ISS's altitude ... more Discovery crew embarks on third spacewalk 
Washington (AFP) March 23, 2009Astronauts from the US space shuttle Discovery began their third and final spacewalk Monday, with a busy to-do list including unblocking a cargo carrier system on the space station, NASA said. Richard Arnold and Joseph Acaba, two former science teachers turned astronauts, emerged from the decompression chamber at 1537 GMT, some six minutes earlier than planned. One of their tasks during ... more Astronauts fail to budge stuck cargo carrier
Washington (AFP) March 23, 2009The Discovery astronauts were unable to dislodge a stuck cargo carrier system during their third and final space walk Monday, and carried on with their busy to-do list on the orbiting space station, NASA said. Richard Arnold and Joseph Acaba, two former science teachers turned astronauts, emerged from the decompression chamber at 1537 GMT, some six minutes earlier than planned. One of th ... more
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