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Mars orbiter resumes science operationsPasadena, Calif. (UPI) Dec 16, 2009 NASA says its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's six science instruments resumed operations Wednesday after being suspended since an Aug. 26 computer reset. Scientists at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif, which manages the mission, said they are now receiving new science data. "It's good to have the instruments back on," said Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2009Opportunity Status for sol 2080-2090: On Sol 2086 (Dec. 6, 2009), the rover backed away and then drove about 5 meters (16 feet) around Marquette Island to image other parts of the rock. On Sol 2089 (Dec. 9, 2009), Opportunity performed a 5-meter (16-foot) approach to the rock to position the rover for an in-situ (contact) study of a different part of the rock than it had touched earlier. ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2009The surface of Mars is littered with channels that appear to be the work of ancient water flows. Indeed, some of these channels meander back and forth like slow-moving streams on our planet. Channels can be carved by lava, wind and glaciers, but these processes can't explain all the features on Mars. "We've gotten over the hump and can now agree that water flowed on the martian surface in ... more 
London, UK (SPX) Dec 09, 2009Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in research published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Methane has a short lifetime of just a few hundred years on Mars because it is constantly being depleted by a chemical reaction in the planet's atmosphere ... more |
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Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 NASA engineers attempting to free the Mars rover Spirit from loose Martian sand since April say the results of their attempts so far are not encouraging. A series of diagnostic tests conducted on Spirit's right-rear wheel last week were designed to investigate stalls that occurred Nov. 28 and earlier. Those diagnostics, the space agency said, included rotor-resistance tests at three ... more
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2009Opportunity Status for sol 2076-2079: Opportunity has been investigating the rock known as "Marquette Island." On Sol 2076 (Nov. 25, 2009), the robotic arm (IDD) placed the Moessbauer (MB) spectrometer on a rock target called "Islington Bay" for a long, multi-sol integration. With the temporary loss of relay operations for a few sols because of the Odyssey spacecraft safe-mode, Opportunity ... more 
Spirit Status for sol 2096-2099: Spirit's extrication from her embedded location at Troy on the west side of Home Plate has been complicated by a recurring stall condition with the right rear wheel. After diagnostic tests on Sol 2095 (Nov. 24, 2009), indicated a freely moving wheel, another two-step drive with 5 meters (16 feet) of wheel spin was commanded on Sol 2099 (Nov. 28, 2009). ... more |
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