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105 Days In Isolation - And Counting - For 400 MoreMoscow, Russia (ESA) Sep 16, 2010 Sailing now in interplanetary space on their simulated mission towards the 'Red Planet', the Mars500 crew has entered in a new phase of their isolation. The previous mission endured 105 days in 2009 and from now on, everything in this experiment is new. The six crewmembers of Mars500, safely locked in their facility in Moscow, have been cruising virtually towards Mars since 14 June, when their mission 'departed' from Earth's orbit. The 'launch' occurred on 3 June when the hatch of their spacecraft ... read more |
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Tucson (UPI) Aug 27, 2010 A NASA spacecraft with a high-resolution camera has photographed a young Mars crater and found frozen water in it, scientists say. A recent image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera shows water ice at the bottom of a 20-foot-wide crater on the planet's surface, SPACE.com reported Friday. Researchers suspect the crater in the northern hemisphere formed recently, ... more  
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2010The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is often depicted as a dull zone of dead rocks with an occasional wayward speedster smashing through on its way toward the sun. A new study appearing in the journal Nature paints a different picture, one of slow but steady change, where sunlight gradually drives asteroids to split in two and move far apart to become independent asteroids among the ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2010Opportunity has paused in her trek toward Endeavour crater to examine an exposed outcrop of rock that is of interest to the science team. On Sol 2336 (Aug. 19, 2010), the rover performed a 7-meter (23-foot) backward turn with a forward bump to approach the outcrop contact. On the next sol, Opportunity performed a short turn to place surface targets within reach of the robotic arm (Instrume ... more |
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NASA's Marks 35th Anniversary Of Mars Viking MissionWashington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2010 Mars. Roman god of war. The Red Planet. From the perennial Mars hoax to Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, no other body in our solar system has so captured the human imagination. Throughout history mankind has gazed into the night sky wondering what civilizations awaited those who landed on the Red Planet's surface. The novels of Burroughs and others tout the planet's allure and films have warned humanity of its dangers. In 1965, the Mariner 4 spacecraft sent the first images of another plane ... read more |
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