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Young Clays on Mars Could Have Been Habitable RegionsTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 20, 2011 Two small depressions on Mars found to be rich in minerals that formed by water could have been places for life relatively recently in the planet's history, according to a new paper in the journal Geology. "We discovered locations at Noctis Labyrinthus that show many kinds of minerals that formed by water activity," said Catherine Weitz, lead author and senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. "The clays we found, called iron/magnesium (Fe/Mg)-smectites, are much younger at Nocti ... read more |
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 Opportunity on verge of new discovery Shortly after Labor Day 2011, the Mars rover Opportunity was poised on the rim of the 22,000 meter-wide Endeavour Crater, preparing to sample a novel rock type. Much older than the sedimentary ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Studies Chester Lake Rock Outcrop Opportunity is in position at a target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2710 (Sept. 8, 2011), the rover pumped forward just over a meter (3 feet) to pu ... more | .. |
  NASA Mars Research Helps Find Buried Water on Earth A NASA-led team has used radar sounding technology developed to explore the subsurface of Mars to create high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep beneath an Earth desert, in the first ... more | .. |
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 Opportunity Inspects Next Rock at Endeavour NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is using instruments on its robotic arm to inspect targets on a rock called "Chester Lake." This is the second rock the rover has examined with a micr ... more | .. |
Opportunity Continues Early Exploration Of Endeavour Crater Rim Opportunity is moving to other in-situ (contact) targets of interest around the region, called Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2703 (Sept. 1, 2011), the rover made the first o ... more | .. |
 Methane Debate Splits Mars Community Observations over the last decade suggest that methane clouds form briefly over Mars during the summer months. The discovery has left many scientists scratching their heads, since it doesn't fit int ... more | .. |
 Memorial Image Taken on Mars on September 11, 2011 A view of a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center towers was taken on Mars yesterday, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The memorial, made from alu ... more |
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 Orbiter Resumes Use of Camera Operators of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are resuming use of the mission's highest resolution camera following a second precautionary shutdown in two weeks. The High Resolution Imaging ... more | .. |
 Sealed-in British scientist relies on plants to breathe A British geologist has volunteered to spend 48 hours in an airtight chamber relying on the oxygen produced by plants to survive. ... more | .. |
 Finishing Work at Tinsdale 2 Opportunity is continuing the in-situ (contact) investigation of rocks around the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2697 (Aug. 25, 2011), the rover bumped a mere 0.15 meters (about 6 inches) to reposi ... more | .. |
 Microbe Risk When Rover Wheels Hit Martian Dirt Earth microbes trying to make it to Mars must survive sterilization in NASA's clean rooms, harsh cosmic rays during months of space travel, and the Red Planet's unforgiving surface environment. But ... more |
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 Rare martian lake delta spotted by Mars Express ESA's Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta. The delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit of dark sediments, laid down in water. I ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Begins Study of Martian Crater The initial work of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration. ... more | .. |
  Russian Firm Unveils Plan for Space Tourism A Russian firm has unveiled its plans for an orbital hotel by 2016 and space tours to Mars by 2030. The news comes as Russia has grounded its Soyuz rockets after an unmanned cargo vessel, bound for ... more | .. |
Opportunity Studies Rocks on Crater Rim Opportunity has begun the in-situ (contact) investigation of rocks around the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2690 (Aug. 18, 2011), the rover began the approach to a large ejecta block, named ... more |
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Right-wing disinformation targets DEI, 'liberal' policies as LA burns
2024 hottest recorded year, crossed global warming limit
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 Filling the pantry for the first voyages to the Red Planet A green thumb and a little flair as a gourmet chef may be among the key skills for the first men and women who travel to the Red Planet later this century, according to a scientist who reported here ... more | .. |
 HDU Technologies Demonstrated in 2011 Field Testing A technique used in NASA's capability-driven architecture analysis is analog field testing in the high desert - an environment which simulates conditions that may be encountered on planetary surface ... more | .. |
 Epic search for evidence of life on Mars heats up with focus on high-tech instruments Scientists are expressing confidence that questions about life on Mars, which have captured human imagination for centuries, finally may be answered, thanks in part to new life-detection tools up to ... more | .. |
 Out of Thin Martian Air A wet Mars is just a memory, but where did the water go? Geological observations suggest rivers and seas dotted the martian surface 3.5 billion years ago. The amount of water has been equated to a p ... more |
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  Neil Armstrong urges return to the Moon Neil Armstrong has urged a return to the Moon to train for missions to Mars as the United States contemplates the future of its space programme following the end of the shuttle era. ... more | .. |
 Russian, European space agencies to team up for Mars mission With just months to go before the end of a Moscow-based simulated journey to Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) head said on Wednesday a joint mission with Russia to the Red Planet was in the pip ... more | .. |
 New Rover Snapshots Capture Endeavour Crater Vistas NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured new images of intriguing Martian terrain from a small crater near the rim of the large Endeavour crater. The rover arrived at the 13-mile-diame ... more | .. |
 Possibility of Mars microbial life eyed U.S. scientists say they'll recreate conditions on Mars in a laboratory to see if microbial life might exist in salt droplets observed on the red planet. ... more |
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 France, Russia talk of Mars mission The European Space Agency says it will team up with Russia's space agency with the goal of launching the first manned mission to Mars. ... more | .. |
 Arrival in the Arctic After two days of travel from Clinton, Canada, where I had spent the previous week with the Pavilion Lake Research Project, I arrived in the evening in Resolute Bay, in Nunavut Territory, Canada. ... more | .. |
 Lava, not water, said cause of Mars beds A U.S. researcher says large, river-like channels seen on Mars were created not by water but by massive, fast-moving lava flows of a type we don't see on Earth. ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Reaches Endeavour Crater Opportunity has arrived at Endeavour crater after a 1000-sol, 13.36 mile (21.5 kilometer) odyssey across the plains of Meridiani. On Sol 2681(Aug. 9, 2011), Opportunity drove 203 feet (62 mete ... more |
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 No Convenience Stores Between Earth and Mars... Yet Here's a summer reading suggestion from the University of Virginia that involves space travel - and it's not science fiction. Even though the space shuttle program has ended, it's not the end ... more | .. |
Opportunity For A Captain Cook At Endeavour Crater After a journey of almost three years, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet's Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before. On Aug. 9, the golf cart-sized ... more | .. |
Opportunity On Final Rove To Endeavour Crater The NASA Mars rover Opportunity has gained a view of Endeavour crater from barely more than a football-field's distance away from the rim. The rim of Endeavour has been the mission's long-term goal ... more | .. |
 Mars' northern polar regions in transition A newly released image from ESA's Mars Express shows the north pole of Mars during the red planet's summer solstice. All the carbon dioxide ice has gone, leaving just a bright cap of water ice. ... more |
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