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UK Space Agency Funds International Mars RoverLondon, UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2010 The UK Space Agency is announcing Pounds 10.5M for the development of instruments to search for signs of past or present life on Mars. The instruments are part of the scientific payload on the ExoMars rover to be launched in 2018 as part of a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and US space agency NASA. ExoMars is a flagship project in the UK Space Agency's science and exploration programme. A two-step programme, the adventure begins in 2016 when NASA will launch an ESA-led orbi ... read more |
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Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 07, 2010Researchers at McGill's department of natural resources, the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto and the SETI Institute have discovered that methane-eating bacteria survive in a highly unique spring located on Axel Heiberg Island in Canada's extreme North. Dr. Lyle Whyte, McGill University microbiologist explains that the Lost Hammer spring supports microbial lif ... more 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 04, 2010It's amazing what cleaning your glasses can reveal. A mineral-scouting instrument developed at ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility has found an outcrop of rock rich in carbonate minerals in the Columbia Hills of Gusev Crater on Mars, according to a report published online June 3 in the journal Science. The instrument is onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. What makes the discovery un ... more 
Moscow, Russia (ESA) Jun 04, 2010Hatch closed: 18-month Mars500 mission has begun. Mars500, the first full-length simulated mission to Mars, started today in Moscow at 13:49 local time (11:49 CET), when the six-man crew entered their 'spacecraft' and the hatch was closed. The experiment will run until November next year. The mood was serious and very determined in the Mars500 facility at the Institute of Biomedical Proble ... more |
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Six men to brave 520-day isolation on 'Mars mission'Moscow (AFP) June 3, 2010 Six men from Europe, Russia and China will on Thursday be voluntarily locked away in a module for almost one and a half years to simulate the psychological effects of a mission to Mars. An Italian, Frenchman, three Russians and a Chinese man will spend the next 520 days in the isolation facility at a Moscow research institute when its hatch slams shut at 2:00 pm (1000 GMT). Like a real Mars mission, the crew will have to survive on limited food rations and their only communication with the outsi ... read more |
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