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Planet rover stretches its legsPasadena, Calif. (UPI) Aug 9, 2010 A six-legged robot that may one day walk on the surface of the moon or Mars stretched it legs during a test stroll in a Southern California park, officials say. The All-Terrain, Hex-Limbed, Extra-Terrestrial Explorer (ATHLETE) is being developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as a half-size prototype of a robot vehicle that could transport supplies, fix equipment or even do excavation, The Pasadena (Calif.) Star-News reported. The beetle-shaped vehicle was going th ... read more |
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London, UK (SPX) Jul 30, 2010A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The findings may provide a link to evidence of living organisms on Mars, roughly 4 billion years ago in the Noachian period. The paper "Hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate alteration assemblag ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2010In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic searches in past years and the fact that its twin rover, Spirit, has seen dozens of dust devils at its location halfway around the planet. A tall column of swirling dust appears in a routine image that Opportunity took with its panoramic came ... more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 29, 2010Is it possible that there are salt solutions on Mars that remain liquid despite the extremely low temperatures - a class of fluids known as cryobrines? Research findings at the German Aerospace Center have shown that this is a theoretical possibility. Experiments and modelling have indicated that the required conditions exist, especially during the Martian northern summer at higher latitud ... more |
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Opportunity In Good Health And Continues To DrivePasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2010 Due to Odyssey's safing event none of the planned Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) downlink passes for this period occurred. All available X-band passes (which are normally uplink only) were changed to two-way, but supportable downlink data rates for these passes are low, and only basic engineering telemetry was received. However, this was enough data to determine that the rover continued to be in good health. As a result of the lack of downlink data, very little in the way of activity was p ... read more |
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