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Opportunity Past 21 Miles of Driving! Will Spend Winter at Cape YorkPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 24, 2011 The project has made the decision that Opportunity will winter over on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater where northern tilts are favorable for energy production. On Sol 2746 (Oct. 15, 2011), Opportunity drove 167 feet (51 meters) to the north/northeast. On Sol 2749 (Oct. 18, 2011), the rover drove another 167 feet (51 meters) to the northeast. The plan ahead is to continue to drive toward the north end of Cape York and to capture any opportunistic in-situ (contact) s ... read more |
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 Mars Rover Carries Device for Underground Scouting An instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity can check for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along the rover's path. "If we conclude that there is something unusu ... more | .. |
 Scientists develope new way to determine when water was present on Mars and Earth The discovery of the mineral jarosite in rocks analyzed by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, on the Martian surface had special meaning for a team of Syracuse University scientists who study the mineral ... more | .. |
 Mars Landing-Site Specialist Gale crater has been sitting just below the equator of Mars, minding its own business, for at least three and half billion years. But in August 2012, a capsule is going to come screaming out of the ... more | .. |
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  ASU in space: 7 current missions, more in the wings Arizona State University is no stranger to space exploration missions. Whether to Mars or other solar system targets, its involvement with NASA planetary exploration began in the 1970s and at presen ... more | .. |
 Russian scientists want to join Europe's ExoMars mission Russian scientists want to join European Space Agency's ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) mission to study the Red Planet, a leading Russian space researcher said. "From the scientific point of vie ... more | .. |
 UK Space Agency announces seed funding for Mars exploration The UK Space Agency is making 1.6M pounds available in support of projects to further explore our neighbouring planet Mars and keep the UK at the forefront of ESA's Aurora Programme - a European lon ... more | .. |
 New Mystery on Mars's Forgotten Plains One of the supposedly best understood and least interesting landscapes on Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planet's history. Or not. In fact, about all that is certain is that decades ... more |
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 Opportunity Keeps Rolling With an Eye on Future Havens for Next Winter Opportunity is moving generally north across Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater with an eye ahead to the next winter. With her solar arrays dustier and atmospheric opacity higher than in ... more | .. |
 While the US Stalls, Europe Moves On to Mars The European Space Agency (ESA) seems to have gotten tired of waiting for NASA to commit to its share of the joint 2016/2018 Mars missions that were planned to lay the groundwork for an eventual del ... more | .. |
 Russia invited to join Mars missions Europe has formally invited Russia to participate in financially troubled unmanned space missions to Mars set for 2016 and 2018, officials said. ... more | .. |
 New Mystery On Mars' Forgotten Plains One of the supposedly best understood and least interesting landscapes on Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planet's history. Or not. In fact, about all that is certain is that decades ... more |
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 Wet and Mild: Caltech Researchers Take the Temperature of Mars' Past Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have directly determined the surface temperature of early Mars for the first time, providing evidence that's consistent with a warmer ... more | .. |
 Mars Express observes clusters of recent craters in Ares Vallis Newly released images taken by ESA's Mars Express show an unusual accumulation of young craters in the large outflow channel called Ares Vallis. Older craters have been reduced to ghostly outlines b ... more | .. |
 Video Documents Three-Year Trek on Mars by NASA Rover While NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was traveling from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, between September 2008 and August 2011, the rover team took an end-of-drive image on each Mart ... more | .. |
  Russian Space objectives Russia plans to carry out an unmanned lunar flight before 2050, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency Vladimir Popovkin said. Speaking at a State Duma session, he emphasized that further research ... more |
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Floods droughts and fires hydroclimate extremes accelerate worldwide
Earth's air war explaining delayed rise of plants and animals on land
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 Opportunity is on the Move Again Opportunity finished her in-situ work at the target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater and is on the move again. On Sol 2726 (Sept. 24, 2011), the rover performe ... more | .. |
 Mars Express: Current flows and 'islands' in Ares Vallis The Ares Vallis outflow channel meanders for more than 1700 kilometres across the southern highlands of Mars and ends in a 100-kilometre-wide delta-like region in the lowlands of Chryse Planitia. ... more | .. |
  ESA finds that Venus has an ozone layer too ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has discovered an ozone layer high in the atmosphere of Venus. Comparing its properties with those of the equivalent layers on Earth and Mars will help astronomers ref ... more | .. |
 Mars Science Laboratory Meets its Match in Florida In preparation for launch later this year, the "back shell powered descent vehicle" configuration containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, has been placed on the spacecraft's heat ... more |
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 Tracing the Canals of Mars In a remarkable discovery, images taken over the past five years by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which circles Mars to ph ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rovers Win Popular Mechanics 'Breakthrough' Award More than seven years after completing their three-month prime missions on opposite sides of Mars, NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity have been selected for lifetime achievement award honors as part ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Studies Rock Interior Opportunity is still positioned at the target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover continues with the in-situ (contact) science investigation of the surface r ... more | .. |
The Strange Attraction of Gale Crater Curiosity is about to go to Mars. The car-sized rover, also known as the Mars Science Lab, is scheduled for launch in late November or early December 2011 from the Kennedy Space Center. After an eig ... more |
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 Mars Express finds water supersaturation in the Martian atmosphere New analysis of data sent back by the SPICAM spectrometer on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has revealed for the first time that the planet's atmosphere is supersaturated with water vapour. Thi ... more | .. |
SpaceX says 'reusable rocket' could help colonize Mars The US company SpaceX is working on the first-ever reusable rocket to launch to space and back, with the goal of one day helping humans colonize Mars, founder Elon Musk said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Help NASA Find Life On Mars With MAPPER Would you like to participate in NASA's analog research program? Interested in helping scientists pinpoint where to look for signs of life on Mars and elsewhere in the universe? Now you can, with an ... more | .. |
 Drilling into Arctic Ice Drill Hill is a circular mound of impact breccia about a kilometer (0.6 miles) in diameter, one of many such mounds that litter the floor of Haughton Crater. It's a large pile of rock rubble, initia ... more |
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 Lockheed Martin Completes Primary Structure of NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission has reached a new milestone. Lockheed Martin has completed building the primary structure of NASA's MAVEN spacecraft at its Space System ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Continues to Study 'Chester Lake' Rock Outcrop Opportunity is still positioned at the target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2717 (Sept. 15, 2011), the rover successfully brushed the surface target ... more | .. |
 Russia to resume deep space explorations with Phobos expedition Russia would resume its program of inter-planetary explorations after a long break with an unmanned mission to the Martian satellite Phobos, a Russian space company said Thursday. According to ... more | .. |
Opportunity Continues to Study Chester Lake Rock Outcrop Opportunity is still positioned at the target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2717 (Sept. 15, 2011), the rover successfully brushed the surface target ... more |
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