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ASU Mars Camera Keeps A Watchful Eye For DustTempe AZ (SPX) Feb 03, 2011 Summertime is coming to the south of Mars, and days are growing longer and warmer. This is not good news, however - and the reason why can be given in a single word: dust. Scientists at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to track from week to week the amount of dust in the Red Planet's atmosphere. THEMIS is a multiband camera that works at 10 infrared wavelengths and five visual ones. The ... read more |
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 Rover Conducting Science At Crater Rim Opportunity is in position for solar conjunction at the southeast rim of the 80-meter (262-foot) diameter Santa Maria crater. The southeast region of the rim shows evidence for hydrated sulfat ... more | .. |
 DLR Researchers Simulate The Martian Atmosphere To support the European ExoMars Mission to explore the Red Planet, an international project is being launched on 20 January 2011 with the aim of simulating the entry of spacecraft into the martian a ... more | .. |
 New images of martian moon released The European Space Agency has released close-up portraits of Mars's moon Phobos, taken as the ESA Mars Express spacecraft flew within 60 miles of it. ... more | .. |
 Chinese Astronaut Performs Well In Mars-500 Project A Chinese participant has performed well in the Mars-500 project, a simulated space flight to Mars, the project's chief said Friday here. Boris Morukov, who is also deputy director of the Medi ... more |
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 The Southern Hemisphere Of Phobos, Up Close During the last of a series of eight encounters with the martian moon Phobos, the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft acquired a detailed view of the martian satell ... more | .. |
 Rover Is Spending Several Weeks At Crater Rim Opportunity is in position for solar conjunction at the southeast rim of the 80-meter (262-foot) diameter Santa Maria crater. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Ma ... more | .. |
 Space crew to simulate Mars walk next month Three men will simulate walking on Mars next month as part of a project that has seen a multinational crew locked up inside a mock Moscow spaceship since June, the head of the project said Friday. ... more | .. |
Mars Sliding Behind Sun After Rover Anniversary The team operating NASA's Mars rover Opportunity will temporarily suspend commanding for 16 days after the rover's seventh anniversary next week, but the rover will stay busy. For the fourth t ... more |
  
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 Next Mars Rover Will Check For Ingredients Of Life Paul Mahaffy, the scientist in charge of the largest instrument on NASA's next Mars rover, watched through glass as clean-room workers installed it into the rover. The specific work planned fo ... more | .. |
 Mars Desert Research Station 2011 Field Season Begins Mars Desert Research Station Crew 97 Summary Report - Crew 97 is a diverse team composed of various backgrounds and skill-sets which blend together to perform research at the Mars Desert Research St ... more | .. |
 Scanning The Red Planet Like a scanner in orbit, the High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European Mars Express spacecraft has been imaging the surface of the Red Planet since 10 January 2004, spotting volcanoes, trenches, ... more | .. |
 Rover Continues To Explore Santa Maria Crater 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 wit ... more |
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 NASA tries to awaken mars rover NASA says it is trying to re-establish communication with its stuck Mars rover Spirit after months of silence as temperatures rise during the planet's spring. ... more | .. |
Rover Will Spend Seventh Birthday At Stadium-Size Crater The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a Dec. 31, 2010, view of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on the southwestern rim ... more | .. |
 NASA Checking On Rover Spirit During Martian Spring Nine months after last hearing from the Mars rover Spirit, NASA is stepping up efforts to regain communications with the rover before spring ends on southern Mars in mid-March. Spirit landed o ... more | .. |
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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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