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IceBite Blog: Setting Up An IceBreakerMoffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2010 Since the arrival to the McMurdo station in the Antarctic two days ago, most of our time has been spent on assembling and testing our Mars prototype drill: the Icebreaker. Icebreaker was built to break into the hard icy soil of Mars. On our first day at the McMurdo station we went to our laboratory and found that only two out of the eight boxes we shipped to Antarctic two months ago actually made it here. We were worried that the remaining six boxes may still be in New Zealand, or even worse in th ... read more |
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 Driving Through A Field Of Small Craters Opportunity has been navigating through a field of small impact craters on her way to Endeavour crater. On Sol 2411 (Nov. 5, 2010), the rover performed an in-place 40-degree turn for communication. ... more | .. |
 A Strategy To Search For Life On Mars The first and only attempts to search for life on Mars were the Viking missions launched in 1975. Now scientists are suggesting the next decade of robotic probes sent to the red planet should make t ... more | .. |
  ESA To Operate A Greenhouse In Space On ISS It's small, but it's a greenhouse for space voyagers - and for you. Paolo Nespoli will take a special greenhouse with him to the International Space Station and he's inviting young science enthusias ... more | .. |
  NASA NIA To Sponsor Student Planetary Rover Challenge Few NASA projects in recent years have captured the public's attention like the Mars rovers. Now researchers are hoping the chance to design a future rover may capture university students' interest. ... more |
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 Sensor On Mars Rover To Measure Radiation Environment About eight months before the NASA rover Curiosity touches down on Mars in August 2012, the mission's science measurements will begin much closer to Earth. The Mars Science Laboratory mission' ... more | .. |
 Full Week Of Driving Past Set Of Craters It has been a week of driving for Opportunity. She drove on five of the last seven sols and covered over 400 meters (1,312 feet). As the rover makes her way toward Endeavour crater, she is taking a ... more | .. |
 Bringing a Bit of Mars Back Home If there is evidence of life on Mars, it will be found in the planet's rocks. And as most scientists who study Mars will tell you, the best way to learn about martian rocks is to bring a few back to ... more | .. |
 The Secrets Of Ancient Martian and Terrestrial Atmospheres Chemists at UC San Diego have uncovered a new chemical reaction on tiny particulates in the atmosphere that could allow scientists to gain a glimpse from ancient rocks of what the atmospheres of the ... more |
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 Function Analysis Drives The Development Of A Concept Mars Rover Humans have walked on the Moon, and inevitably, according to NASA, humans will tread the Red Planet as well, possibly by 2037. An ergonomist and an industrial designer pondered the challenges of the ... more | .. |
  Using Planet Colors To Search For Alien Earths Earth is invitingly blue. Mars is angry red. Venus is brilliant white. Astronomers have learned that a planet's "true colors" can reveal important details. For example, Mars is red because its soil ... more | .. |
 Mars Rovers Mission Using Cloud Computing 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 ... more | .. |
  China Goes To Mars As China's second Moon probe continues its mission, more information is being disclosed about China's ambitions for worlds beyond. China has made no secret of its plans to explore Mars, but we are g ... more |
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 Opportunity Keeps On Driving To Endeavour Crater Over the past week, Opportunity completed a short bump before the weekend and two long drives after the weekend. The short bump was a 3-meter (10-foot) move on Sol 2397 (Oct. 21, 2010), to position ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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