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February 02, 2010
India Looks To Global Effort For Manned Mars Mission
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 29, 2010
The maiden human space flight to Mars would be a global mission through a consortium by 2030, a top Indian space official said Wednesday. 'Manned mission to Mars will be a global effort and will be undertaken by a consortium of space-faring nations,' Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Radhakrishnan told reporters here. Noting that international collaboration and cooperation would be the order of the day in future space exploratory missions, Radhakrishnan said the global en ... read more

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A Stationary Spirit
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Mars Pairs Up With Full Moon
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Spirit Bogged In Sand: Now A Stationary Research Platform
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Close Encounter With Mars
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Spirit rover to remain stuck in Martian sand
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IceBite Blog: Living In A Freezer
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Spirit Struggles While Opportunity Rocks
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Rover Gives NASA An 'Opportunity' To View Interior Of Mars
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Rover Gives Opportunity To View Interior Of Mars
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Public Invited To Pick Pixels On Mars
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2010
The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars will soon be taking photo suggestions from the public. Since arriving at Mars in 2006, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has recorded nearly 13,000 observations of the Red Planet's terrain. Each image covers dozens of square miles and reveal details as small as a ... more

NASA Orbiter Listening For Phoenix Lander Hears Nothing
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2010
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has completed 11 overflights, listening for the Phoenix Mars Lander on Jan. 19 and 20, without hearing anything from the lander. Nineteen more listening overflights are planned this week, and additional attempts in February and March. The attempts are being made because of the unlikely scenario that Phoenix has survived Martian arctic winter conditions the space ... more

Portuguese Students Get A Glimpse Into Future Mars Missions
Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) Jan 20, 2010
Hundreds of Portuguese high school students were recently given a distinct privilege: a look at what future Mars missions could look like, as described by former NASA astronaut Laurence R. Young. Young, the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT, director of the health science and technology program in bioastronautics, and founding ... more

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Opportunity Leaving Marquette Behind


Spirit Still Stuck


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US shifts military focus to militants, hi-tech weapons

Boeing B-52 With CONECT Completes First Test Flight

RAF Tornados Showcased

US accelerating missile defenses in Gulf: report

Russia denies fleet boost over US Poland missile plan

Kuwait Air Defense Forces Conduct Patriot Test Firings

S.Korea watching for possible N.Korea missile tests

US probes missile test failure in Pacific: Pentagon

US deployment raises tensions in strategic Gulf: analysts

Libya's Russian deal boosts arms race

Gates fires general, withholds funds over F-35 problems

Obama budget tries to ease strain on stretched US military

India's military sets up robot competition

Animal rights group wants 'Robohog Day'

S.Korean scientists develop walking robot maid

Safety risk associated with HIV drug

Disease spreads in quake-hit Haiti

Global swine flu death toll rises to 14,711: WHO

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Tooling Up ExoMars
Paris, 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 ... read more

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Moon Exploration is Not Dead

3D Measurements Of Apollo 14 Landing Site

Obama cuts moon travel, links NASA to private firms

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NASA Awards Contract For Space Suit Simulator

Lawmakers gird for NASA cut battle

US senator condemns 'death march' for manned space flight

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Four Years And Counting

New Horizons Now Closer To Pluto Than Earth

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

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The Difference Between Ganymede And Callisto

Galileo's Jupiter Journey Began Two Decades Ago

Europa's Ocean Contains Enough Oxygen To Support Life

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