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Rover Continues To Explore Santa Maria Crater Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 11, 2011 As the New (Earth) Year begins, Opportunity is continuing to explore the 80-meter (262-foot) diameter Santa Maria crater. The exploration campaign consists of wide-baseline imaging surveys with both navigation camera (Navcam) and panoramic camera (Pancam) from several points around the rim of the crater. Because of the holiday period on Earth, the rover performed several sols of remote sensing imagery on Sols 2465, 2466 and 2467 (Dec. 30, Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, 2011). On the next sol, Opp ... read more |
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Auction May Hold Piece Of Final Frontier For Space Buffs Many dream of traveling to the Moon, Mars or even other galaxies. For some, these dreams date back to the US-Soviet space race; other dreams of cosmic travel are more recent, as the commercial secto ... more | .. |
China to explore Mars with Russia this year China's first Mars probe is expected to be launched in October this year in a joint operation with Russia after a two-year delay, state media reported Sunday. ... more | .. |
Astrobiology Top 10: Trapped Rover Finds Evidence Of Water On Mars 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 | .. |
NASA Spacecraft Provides Travel Tips For Mars Rover NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments. Researchers are using a mineral- ... more |
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Astrobiology Top 10: Viking Results Revisited Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of l ... more | .. |
IceBite Blog: Trek to University Valley Preparing for University Valley By Margarita Marinova: We have spent the past week getting all of our equipment ready: sleeping bags, personal tents, work tents, food, drilling equipment, weather st ... more | .. |
Opportunity Studying A Football-Field Size Crater On Dec. 16, 2010, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached a crater about the size of a football field-some 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter. The rover team plans to use cameras and s ... more | .. |
NASA's Next Mars Rover to Zap Rocks With Laser A rock-zapping laser instrument on NASA's next Mars rover has roots in a demonstration that Roger Wiens saw 13 years ago in a colleague's room at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. ... more |
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Mars Movie - I'm Dreaming Of A Blue Sunset A new Mars movie clip gives us a rover's-eye view of a bluish Martian sunset, while another clip shows the silhouette of the moon Phobos passing in front of the sun. America's Mars Exploration ... more | .. |
NASA: Next Mars rover will carry a laser NASA says its next Mars rover will be equipped with a rock-zapping laser able to analyze the chemical composition of rocks and soil from more than 20 feet away. ... more | .. |
US downplays trade with blacklist countries The United States on Friday downplayed a newspaper report about US firms being allowed to do business with Iran and other blacklisted countries, insisting its sanctions were squeezing Tehran. ... more | .. |
Space Sensor Makes Bolts Smarter Technology developed for the International Space Station and a Mars rover is helping European auto-parts manufacturers to engineer lighter, stronger and safer drivetrains and axles. Bolts are ... more |
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Wind And Water Have Shaped Schiaparelli On Mars The small crater embedded in the north-western rim of the Schiaparelli impact basin features prominently in this new image acquired by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German ... more | .. |
Odyssey Orbiter Nears Martian Longevity Record By the middle of next week, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will have worked longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history. Odyssey entered orbit around Mars on Oct. 24, 2001. On Dec. 15, the 3,34 ... more | .. |
The Three Ages Of Mars There is no place on Earth that is a perfect copycat of Mars as it is now, or as it was at any specific point in the past. But scientists suggest Earth has little versions of Mars as it might have b ... more | .. |
Trace Elements Tell Of End Of Planet Formation New research reveals that the abundance of so-called highly siderophile, or metal-loving, elements like gold and platinum found in the mantles of Earth, the Moon and Mars were delivered by massive i ... more |
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Drilling For The Future Of Science Students in Robert Palassou's fifth-grade class at Valley View School got an unusual treat last month when scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center visited their Pleasanton, California, classroom ... more | .. |
Opportunity Imaging Small Craters On Way To Endeavour Opportunity continues to make good progress towards Endeavour crater while collecting remote-sensing science observations (imaging) of small craters along the way. The rover drove on Sols 2429 ... more | .. |
Pits, Flows, Other Scenes In New Set Of Mars Images Newly released images from 340 recent observations of Mars by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show details of a wide assortme ... more | .. |
Spain Supplies Weather Station For Next Mars Rover The first instrument from Spain for a mission to Mars will provide daily weather reports from the Red Planet. Expect extremes. Major goals for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory include assessing ... more |
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Opportunity Making Progress To Endeavour Crater Opportunity continues to make progress towards Endeavour crater while collecting remote-sensing science observations along the way. The rover drove on Sols 2424 (Nov. 18, 2010), and 2427 (Nov. ... more | .. |
IceBite Blog: Remote Control On Thursday, Nov. 18th, we had a very exciting day. Our Mars drill was to be operated by a class of 5th grade students from Valley View School in Pleasanton, California. We got up early in the morni ... more | .. |
Hopping Rovers For The Red Planet Scientists and engineers at the Space Research Centre at the University of Leicester are developing a conceptual motor design for a Mars 'hopping' vehicle which should lead to a greater understandin ... more | .. |
Opportunity Checks out Intrepid Crater Opportunity has been navigating through a field of small impact craters on her way to Endeavour crater. Opportunity has has now exceeded 25 kilometers (15 miles) of odometry on the surface of Mars! ... more |
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