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Opportunity Examinines 'Marquette Island's' InteriorPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2010 Opportunity has been investigating the rock known as "Marquette Island". The rock abrasion tool (RAT) was used to grind a 1.5 millimeters (0.06 inch) into this very hard rock for further investigation by the other rover instruments. On Sol 2110 (Dec. 24, 2009), the RAT itself was imaged to determine the amount of remaining grind bit. Then, a microscopic imager (MI) mosaic was performed on ... read more |
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London, UK (SPX) Jan 05, 2010Spectacular satellite images suggest that Mars was warm enough to sustain lakes three billion years ago, a period that was previously thought to be too cold and arid to sustain water on the surface, according to research published this week in the journal Geology. The research, by a team from Imperial College London and University College London (UCL), suggests that during the Hesperian Ep ... more  
Washington (AFP) Jan 3, 2010NASA Sunday celebrated Mars rover Spirit's bountiful, six-year stint on the red planet, way longer than the three months it was forecast to last. But it all may soon come to an end, stuck as it is in Martian sand. The tireless, 180-kilogram (400-pound), six-wheel robot broke through a crusty surface layer to strike sand in April at one edge of the Troy crater, west of the Home Plate plateau, ... more  
Shanghai (XNA) Jan 04, 2010Construction of a 65-meter-diameter radio telescope started Tuesday in Shanghai, an official from one of funders said Wednesday. The telescope, a form of directional radio antenna used in radio astronomy, will be used in tracking and collecting data from satellites and space probes including Chinese astronomical projects like Chang'e lunar probe, YH-1 Mars exploration and other deep space explor ... more |
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 Spirit Right-Front And Right-Rear Wheels Remain Stalled  ESA Member States Give Green Light To ExoMars Programme   Instant online solar energy quotes Solar Energy Solutions from ABC Solar |
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Sukhumi, Georgia (AFP) Dec 20, 2009The monkeys at this run-down research centre which was once the pride of Soviet science have seen it all -- a brutal civil war, freezing winters and starvation. Now, if the scientists at the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy have their way, one of these furry apes could someday be plucked from its cage and sent on a pioneering mission to Mars. "We have plans to return to ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 18, 2009Spirit's right-front wheel, which had stopped operating in March 2006, revolved with apparently normal motion during the first three of four driving segments on Sol 2117 but stopped early in the fourth segment of the drive. The rover's right-rear wheel, which stalled nearly three weeks ago, remained immobile during the entire Sol 2117 drive. The other four wheels all drove forward in this part of the continuing ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2009Certain environments on Earth that host life are very similar to places on Mars and other terrestrial planets, scientists have found. So if life can exist here, why not there? Nora Noffke is a geobiologist at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She has found evidence of microbial life all over the world - in both modern and in fossil coastal areas. Bacteria that grow on beach ... more |
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 Mars orbiter resumes science operations   Images of Chi Cygni reveal Sol's fate  Methane study favors life on Mars theory |
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