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Tooling Up ExoMarsParis, France (ESA) Jan 19, 2010 ESA and NASA are inviting scientists from across the world to propose instruments for their joint Mars mission, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Scheduled for launch in 2016, the spacecraft will focus on understanding the rarest constituents of the martian atmosphere, including the mysterious methane that could signal life on Mars. Establishing whether life ever existed, or is still active on Mars today, is one of the outstanding scientific quests of our time. Both missions in the ExoMars programme will address this important goal. The first spacecraft is the Trace Gas Orbiter, which ESA will build and NASA will launch. ... read more |
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Houston (UPI) Jan 12, 2009 The Mars rover known as Spirit may be permanently stuck in the sand but remains of value for scientific exploration, NASA officials said. The rover program was launched in 2004 with Spirit and Opportunity landing on opposite sides of the planet for what was to be three months of exploration. Opportunity still roams the planet while Spirit became stuck in sand about nine months ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2010Martian landforms shaped by winds, water, lava flow, seasonal icing and other forces are analyzed in 21 journal reports based on data from a camera orbiting Mars. The research in a January special issue of Icarus testifies to the diversity of the planet being examined by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Examples of the ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2010Beginning Jan. 18, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic Martian site in November 2008. The solar-powered lander operated two months longer than its three-month prime mission during summer on northern Mars before the seasonal ebb of sunshine ended its work. ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2010Sol 2131-2136: Spirit remains embedded at the location called "Troy" on the west side of Home Plate. Attempts to extricate Spirit have been complicated by the lack of functionality in both the right-rear and right-front wheels. On Sol 2132 (Jan. 1, 2010), the left-front, left-rear, and right-rear wheels were steered 60 degrees toe-in to try and cause material in front of the wheels to coll ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2010Opportunity 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 ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 06, 2010When scientists confirmed in October that they had detected the first rocky planet outside our solar system, it advanced the longtime quest to find an Earth-like planet hospitable to life. Rocky planets - Earth, Mercury, Venus and Mars - make up half the planets in our solar system. Rocky planets are considered better environments to support life than planets that are mainly gaseous, like ... more |
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