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Mars Rovers Mission Using Cloud Computing Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 03, 2010 The project team that built and operates the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity has become the first NASA space mission to use cloud computing for daily mission operations. Cloud computing is a way to gain fast flexibility in computing ability by ordering capacity on demand - as if from the clouds - and paying only for what is used. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project moved to this strategy last week for the software and data that the rovers' flight team uses to develop daily plans for rover act ... read more |
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Mars Volcanic Deposit Tells Of Warm And Wet Environment Roughly 3.5 billion years ago, the first epoch on Mars ended. The climate on the red planet then shifted dramatically from a relatively warm, wet period to one that was arid and cold. Yet there was ... more | .. |
Ancient Mars Was Wet, Cozy And Life Friendly Light-colored mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone more than three billion years ago may preserve evidence of one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars. Observatio ... more | .. |
Study Links Fresh Mars Gullies To Carbon Dioxide A growing bounty of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the timing of new activity in one type of the enigmatic gullies on Mars implicates carbon-dioxide frost, rather than w ... more | .. |
NASA Trapped Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis. ... more |
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2013 Earliest Launch Date For China Mars Mission China has drawn up a technical plan for an independent Mars orbiter exploration project, according to China's space technology expert. The plan was based on research conducted by the China Aca ... more | .. |
A One-Way Trip To Mars Would Be Affordable For the chance to watch the sun rise over Olympus Mons, or maybe take a stroll across the vast plains of the Vastitas Borealis, would you sign on for a one-way flight to Mars? It's a question ... more | .. |
Testing The Exomars Rover In Mars-Like Conditions 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 ... more | .. |
Curiosity Builds A New Mars Rover A newly installed webcam is giving the public an opportunity to watch technicians assemble and test the next NASA Mars rover, one of the most technologically challenging interplanetary missions ever ... more |
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The Continuing Controversy Of The Mars Meteorite The most illustrious meteorite in history continues to inspire heated debate. Does it carry microbial fossils from Mars or are its strange features just the product of some unique geochemistry? Afte ... more | .. |
Opportunity's Eastward View After Sol 2382 Drive This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a 90-degree view centered toward the east following a 93.3-meter (306-foot) drive east-northeastwa ... more | .. |
Opportunity Past The 15-Mile Mark On Mars Opportunity crossed the 24-kilometer (15-mile) odometry mark on her way to Endeavour crater. The rover ended last week with the data backlog which limited activities over the weekend. On Sol 2 ... more | .. |
Revealing More About The Atmosphere Of Mars Instruments designed by a UT Dallas professor to measure atmospheric components on the surface of Mars have uncovered important clues about the planet's atmosphere and climate history. The fin ... more |
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Emerging Underground Aquifers Formed Martian Lakes Researchers at the Planetary Science Institute have found a new explanation for how seas and lakes may have once developed on Mars. J. Alexis Palmero Rodriguez, research scientist at PSI, has ... more | .. |
Long-Lived Mars Odyssey Gets New Project Manager The new project manager for the longest-working spacecraft currently active at Mars, NASA's Mars Odyssey, has a long track record himself. He is Gaylon McSmith, a former pilot of U.S. Air Forc ... more | .. |
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 |
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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 | .. |
Opportunity Hits The Road Again After 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, 20 ... more |
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Airplanes Could Unlock Mars Mysteries Various 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 ... more | .. |
Saturn's Icy Moon May Keep Oceans Liquid With Wobble Saturn'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 ... more | .. |
Lockheed Martin-Built Spacecraft Will Be Next Orbiter At Mars NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) project passed its Mission Confirmation Review on Oct. 4. As a result, NASA has given approval for the development and 2013 launch of the MAVEN ... more | .. |
Opportunity For Close-Up View Of Meteorite Oilean Ruaidh This is an image of the meteorite that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found and examined in September 2010. Opportunity's cameras first revealed the meteorite in images taken on Sol 2363 ... more |
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