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Meteorite Shock Waves Trigger Dust Avalanches on MarsTucson AZ (SPX) Dec 19, 2011 When a meteorite careens toward the dusty surface of the Red Planet, it kicks up dust and can cause avalanching even before the rock from outer space hits the ground, a research team led by an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona has discovered. "We expected that some of the streaks of dust that we see on slopes are caused by seismic shaking during impact," said Kaylan Burleigh, who led the research project. "We were surprised to find that it rather looks like shock waves in the air ... read more |
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 Opportunity at One of its Two Winter Spots Opportunity is positioned at one of the candidate sites for winter, on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. There are two candidate sites for winter havens that indicate suff ... more | .. |
 Scientists find microbes in lava tube living in conditions like those on Mars A team of scientists from Oregon has collected microbes from ice within a lava tube in the Cascade Mountains and found that they thrive in cold, Mars-like conditions. The microbes tolerate tem ... more | .. |
 MARSIS Completes Measurement Campaign Over Martian North Pole The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on board Mars Express has recently completed a subsurface sounding campaign over the planet's North Pole. The campa ... more | .. |
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 Phobos-Grunt mission now impossible says chief designer Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which has been stuck in the wrong orbit for more than a month, will not be able to complete its mission, the head and chief designer of the Lavochkin spacecraft con ... more | .. |
 In Search Of A Wet Warm Life Filled Mars Scientists from The Australian National University have found that extensive regions of the sub-surface of Mars could contain water and be at comfortable temperatures for terrestrial - and potential ... more | .. |
 Preparing for human exploration of Mars by measuring background radiation NASA will launch the Mars Science Laboratory on Nov. 26, 2011, to assess the past and present habitability of the Red Planet's surface. The mission will land Curiosity, a rover equipped with 10 inst ... more | .. |
 Mars-Bound Rover Begins Research in Space NASA's car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars. The research will aid in planning for future human missions to the Red Planet. ... more |
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 System could be 'brain' for Mars rovers British scientists have announced a project they say could allow Mars rovers to roam autonomously around the planet. ... more | .. |
 Opportunity to Stop and Study Rocks Opportunity is currently exploring one of the candidate sites for winter, on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 2792 (Dec. 1, 2011), the rover bumped backwards ... more | .. |
 Life possible on 'large parts' of Mars: study Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said Monday that "large regions" could sustain life. ... more | .. |
 Russia could join ExoMars as full partner Russia could become a full partner in a planned U.S.-European Mars exploration project, a European Space Agency (ESA) spokesman has said. The Space News International website quoted Franco Bon ... more |
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 e2v imaging sensors launched into space on NASA mission to Mars The Mars Science Laboratory is a long-term robotic exploration to assess if Mars is, or ever has been, an environment that can support life. It will be the biggest, most capable robot to ever land o ... more | .. |
  Solar Storms Could Sandblast the Moon Solar storms and associated Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can significantly erode the lunar surface according to a new set of computer simulations by NASA scientists. In addition to removing a surpr ... more | .. |
 Failed Mars probe to fall to Earth A Russian spacecraft that failed to head for Mars after its November launch will fall back to Earth Jan. 9, experts said. ... more | .. |
 Russia may join European Mars mission Russia could become a full partner in a planned U.S.-European Mars exploration mission, a European Space Agency spokesman said. ... more |
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Climate disasters drive unusually high losses in 2024: Munich Re
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 Mars Opportunity Rover Finds Rich Vein Of Gypsum Water Deposits NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet envir ... more | .. |
Opportunity Spent Holiday at 'Turkey Haven' Opportunity spent the Thanksgiving holiday at a location called "Turkey Haven," on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. This particular location provided favorable northe ... more | .. |
 New Tool for Touring Mars Using Detailed Images An improved tool has been introduced for viewing channels, dunes, boulders and other features revealed in the huge image files from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on ... more | .. |
 SAM I Am The Mars Science Laboratory is on its way to the red planet, and its rover Curiosity should touch down next summer. If the mission hits paydirt and comes across organic material, then one instrument ... more |
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 Mars Mission Hoping To Satisfy Curiosity The University of Leicester is to play a key role in NASA's $2.5 billion mission to Mars. Dr. John Bridges of the University's Space Research Centre leads a team from the University of Leicester, th ... more | .. |
 Mountains and Buried Ice on Mars New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could be a source of water for future ... more | .. |
 MSL Course Excellent, Adjustment Postponed Excellent launch precision for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has forestalled the need for an early trajectory correction maneuver, now not required for a month or more. That first of ... more | .. |
 Two UT Scientists Search for Potential Habitats for Life on Mars Two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professors are searching for potential habitats for life on Mars. Linda Kah and Jeffrey Moersch, associate professors of earth and planetary sciences, are an ... more |
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 ESA gives up bids to contact stranded Russian space probe The European Space Agency said it will no longer try to make contact with Russia's stranded Mars probe Phobos-Grunt if attempts made Friday fail. ... more | .. |
  EMCORE Solar Panels Power NASA's MSL EMCORE has announced that solar panels manufactured by EMCORE were successfully launched November 26, 2011 onboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft. The panels, delivered earlier t ... more | .. |
 Microscopic worms could hold the key to living life on Mars The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have to up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge? Scientists at The University ... more | .. |
Los Alamos instrument to shine light on Mars habitability With the successful launch of the Mars Science Laboratory on Saturday, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers and scientists from the French space institute IRAP are poised to begin focusing the ... more |
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 Veteran Mars Researcher Says Curiosity Spacecraft Can Confirm Viking Detected Life NASA has repeatedly stated that its new mission to Mars, Curiosity, carries no life detector. Yet, Gilbert V. Levin, Experimenter on NASA's 1976 Viking Mission, disagrees. He says instruments aboard ... more | .. |
 Mars Science Laboratory Lifts Off Protected by Lockheed Martin-Built Aeroshell NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft launched this morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. at 10:02 a.m. ET aboard an Atlas V-541 rocket provided by United Launch Alliance. The miss ... more | .. |
 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Boosts Latest Mars Rover to the Red Planet Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne demonstrated the consistent reliability of its power and propulsion systems by successfully boosting the Mars Science Laboratory rover, which will travel to the red plan ... more | .. |
 NASA launches biggest-ever rover to Mars NASA's Curiosity rover, the biggest, most sophisticated robotic explorer ever built, blasted off Saturday on a journey to Mars, where it will hunt for signs life once existed there. ... more |
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