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NASA tests (cramped) Mars-type rovers in Arizona desertFlagstaff, Arizona (AFP) Sept 18, 2010 It may not have all the creature comforts, but Aaron Hulse considers his space exploration rover a pleasant home away from home. That is crucial as he and other NATO experts spend days together in the Arizona desert, simulating the arid surface of some distant planet or asteroid - complete with a dormant volcano. "You just have to get comfortable with being close in here," Hulse said, speaking matter-of-factly about the seven days that he and a NASA colleague spent recently living in the rover' ... read more |
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Washington (UPI) Sep 3, 2010 New analysis of data sent from Mars 34 years ago showing there was no organic material on the planet suggests maybe there was after all, U.S. scientists say. Researchers say the result from re-examining findings of the 1976 Viking mission does not bring scientists closer to discovering life on Mars, but it does increase likelihood that life exists, or once existed, on the planet, The Wa ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 30, 2010One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily maps of global, pole-to-pole, vertical distributions of the temperature, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere. The joint European-American mission, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, will seek faint gaseous clues about possible life on Mars. This instrument, called the ExoMars Climate Sounder, will supp ... more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 30, 2010Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation remains a mystery. Often overlooked, this well-defined depression extends approximately 380 by 140 kilometres in a north-northeast to south-southwest direction. It has a rim that rises up to 1800 metre ... more |
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Opportunity Stops To Check Out RocksPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2010 Opportunity 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 (Instrument Deployment Device, IDD). On Sol 2339 (Aug. 23, 2010), Opportunity conducted a relay test pass with Ma ... read more |
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