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Opportunity To See More Detail At Crater Destination Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 30, 2010 Mars rover team members have begun informally naming features around the rim of Endeavour Crater, as they develop plans to investigate that destination when NASA's Opportunity rover arrives there after many more months of driving. A new, super-resolution view of a portion of Endeavour's rim reveals details that were not discernible in earlier images from the rover. Several high points along the rim can be correlated with points discernible from orbit. Super-resolution is an imaging technique ... read more |
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Spirit Remains Silent At Troy Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 16, 2010 Spirit remains silent at her location called "Troy" on the west side of Home Plate. No communication has been received from the rover since Sol 2210 (March 22, 2010). It is likely that Spirit has experienced a low-power fault and has turned off all sub-systems, including communication and gone into a deep sleep. While sleeping, the rover will use the available solar array energy to recharg ... more Ancient Ocean May Have Covered One-Third Of Mars Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 15, 2010 A vast ocean likely covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a new study conducted by University of Colorado at Boulder scientists. The CU-Boulder study is the first to combine the analysis of water-related features including scores of delta deposits and thousands of river valleys to test for the occurrence of an ocean sustained by a global hydrosph ... more A third of Mars once covered by ocean: study Paris (AFP) June 13, 2010 A huge, potentially life-giving sea likely covered more than a third of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a study released Sunday. Spread over an area the size of the Atlantic Ocean, it would have straddled the north pole and contained the equivalent of a tenth of the water on Earth. For decades scientists have argued as to whether the Red Planet once harboured bodies of wate ... more |
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Opportunity Could Resume Driving Soon A New Model To Explain Absence of Organic Compounds On Mars Surface Instant online solar energy quotes Solar Energy Solutions from ABC Solar |
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Radar system tested for Mars rover landing Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jun 11, 2010 The U.S. space agency says it is testing a version of the radar system that will be used to land a new rover on Mars in August 2012. Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory conducted one test last month at the Dryden Flight Research Center near Edwards, Calif., using a helicopter to simulate specific descent paths that might used at various martian landing sites. The new rover, named "Curiosity," is now under construction at JPL in Pasadena, Calif. During its final descent ... read more |
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