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Testing The Exomars Rover In Mars-Like ConditionsBonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 A couple of clicks of the mouse are enough to send the ExoMars rover with its six flexible metal wheels moving across the sand tank towards the first obstacle. Bernhard Rebele, Maximilian Apfelbeck and Sebastian Kuss from the German Aerospace Center Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics have built a challenging obstacle course, which really puts the rover to the test. Its middle wheels scrabble obstinately against the sharp edges of the limestone. The steady grinding sound as the rover passes ove ... read more |
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 Rover Nears 15 Miles Of Driving On Mars Opportunity drove only once this past week, nearing the 24-kilometer (15-mile) odometry mark. On Sol 2382 (Oct. 6, 2010), the rover covered over 94 meters (308 feet) on her trek to Endeavour c ... more | .. |
 NASA chief to visit China NASA chief Charles Bolden will make an official visit to China October 16-21, a spokesman for the US space agency said Tuesday. The visit was first announced in November 2009 during a visit to C ... more | .. |
 Melas Chasma On Mars: As Low As One Can Go There are few places on Mars lower than this. The floor of Melas Chasma sinks nine kilometres below the surrounding plains. New images from the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsche Zentrum fur Luft- un ... more | .. |
 Habitable Martian Environments Could Be Deep Beneath Planet's Surface A new discovery of hydrothermally altered carbonate-bearing rocks on Mars points toward habitable environments deep in the Martian crust, a Planetary Science Institute researcher said. A depos ... more | .. |
 Mobile Mars Lab Almost Ready For Curiosity Rover The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite has completed assembly at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and is nearly ready for a December delivery to NASA's Jet Propulsio ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2010After spending time investigating a meteorite, Opportunity has resumed the trek to Endeavour crater with drives totaling over 370 meters (1,214 feet) for the past week. On Sol 2377 (Oct. 1, 2010), the rover drove over 100 meters (328 feet), making a "bank shot" maneuver to avoid some troubling terrain. On Sol 2379 (Oct. 3, 2010), the rover performed a test of autonomous navigation using on ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2010Various orbiters, landers and rovers that have explored Mars in the past three decades have revealed tantalizing evidence of the conditions for life, from frozen water at the planet's North Pole to methane plumes in the atmosphere. For atmospheric scientist Joel Levine, the evidence has made the case for flying an airplane over Mars stronger than ever. Levine champions the ARES Mars airpla ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 07, 2010Saturn's icy moon Enceladus should not be one of the most promising places in our solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. Instead, it should have frozen solid billions of years ago. Located in the frigid outer solar system, it's too far from the sun to have oceans of liquid water - a necessary ingredient for known forms of life - on its surface. Some worlds, like Mars or Jupiter's ... more |
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US to go back to Mars in probe of 'lost atmosphere' mysteryWashington (AFP) Oct 5, 2010 The US space agency NASA announced Tuesday it has given the green light to a mission to Mars aimed at investigating the mystery of how the "red planet" lost its atmosphere. NASA gave the approval Monday for "the development and 2013 launch of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission," the agency said in a statement, noting that the project may also show Mars' history of supporting life. "A better understanding of the upper atmosphere and the role that escape to space has played ... read more |
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