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NASA budget will axe Mars deal with Europe: scientistsWashington (AFP) Feb 9, 2012 US President Barack Obama's budget proposal to be submitted next week for 2013 will cut NASA's budget by 20 percent and eliminate a major partnership with Europe on Mars exploration, scientists said Thursday. The White House is proposing a $1.2 billion budget for the US space agency, down from $1.5 billion this year, according to Louis Friedman, a former NASA official and co-founder of the Planetary Society who was briefed on the matter. "It's certainly dead," Friedman told AFP, referring to the ... read more |
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 Mars Science Lab Computer Issue Resolved Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it. The fix involves changing how cert ... more | .. |
 Spectra Systems Products on Their Way to Mars Spectra Systems, a technology company that provides banknote security features to many of the world's central banks, has one of its products on the way to Mars as part of the NASA Curiosity rover mi ... more | .. |
 Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean ESA's Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously iden ... more | .. |
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 Mars radar finds possible ocean sediments The MARSIS radar instrument on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter has discovered a subsurface blanket of low density material around the north polar cap, supporting theories that the northern lowlands ... more | .. |
  Phobos Crash Test Dismisses U.S. Link Tests carried out by Russian space agency Roscosmos have ruled out the possibility a U.S. radar could be linked to the failure of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said o ... more | .. |
 Heavy Ions Killed Mars Probe Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was lost because space radiation disrupted its computer system, a commission investigating the incident said on Friday. The investigation found no faults with the spa ... more | .. |
 Surface of Mars an unlikely place for life after 600 million year drought Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet's surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking ta ... more |
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Iran FM warns against 'destructive interference' in Syria's future
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 Program Glitch Led to Russian Mars Probe Failure A government commission has blamed Russian programmers for the recent failure of Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, the Kommersant daily said on Tuesday citing a space industry source. The comm ... more | .. |
 Russia May Run Repeat Mission to Phobos Russia will send another sample mission to the Martian moon Phobos if the European Space Agency (ESA) decides not to include Russia in its ExoMars program, the head of Russia's space agency said on ... more | .. |
 The Phobos Crash Was Preprogrammed The Russian space agency Roscosmos announced the cause of the Phobos-Grunt space probe failure on Tuesday: it was a software malfunction in its onboard computer. But doubts still persist. Russia's s ... more | .. |
 Russia May Repeat Mars-500 Simulation on Space Station Russia may repeat the Mars-500 experiment simulating a crewed flight to the Red Planet on the International Space Station (ISS), the head of the Russian Space Federal Agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popo ... more |
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 A dark spot on Mars - Syrtis Major Amateur astronomers who on occasion observe Mars through the eyepiece of their telescopes are quite familiar with the region of Syrtis Major; when observing conditions are good, it can be easily ide ... more | .. |
 U.K. study: Mars surface too dry for life Life could not exist on the surface of Mars because the planet has been in a "super-drought" lasting 600 million years, British researchers say. ... more | .. |
Space Radiation Blamed for Phobos-Grunt Crash Space radiation triggered a glitch in the on-board computer system causing the recent crash of Russia's Mars probe, Federal Space Agency head Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday. "Two components ... more | .. |
 Radio Doppler Tracking Continues at Cape York Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. While positioned for ... more |
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China builds large commercial radar satellite constellation
Changes in store for atmospheric rivers
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 Russia blames 'cosmic rays' for Mars probe failure Russia on Tuesday blamed a computer malfunction caused by the impact of cosmic rays for the failure of its Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars, one of a litany of setbacks for its embattled space programme. ... more | .. |
  SwRI-led RAD measures radiation from solar storm The largest solar particle event since 2005 hit the Earth, Mars and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft travelling in-between, allowing the onboard Radiation Assessment Detector to measure the ra ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover Science Investigations Continue as Solar Energy Levels Drop Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production during the winter. Opp ... more | .. |
 NASA Says No to Probe Crash Theory Test NASA has refused to participate in an experiment designed to show if U.S. radars could have had an impact on Russia's troubled Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, the deputy head of the country's space agency, ... more |
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 Mars Orbiter Shows Wind's Handiwork Some images of stark Martian landscapes provide visual appeal beyond their science value, including a recent scene of wind-sculpted features from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRI ... more | .. |
 Durable NASA Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five months ag ... more | .. |
  Volunteers Sought for Simulated Mars Mission and Study of 'Menu Fatigue' Astronauts on a mission to Mars will need much more than freeze-dried ice cream to sustain them, and researchers at Cornell are working to determine the best way to keep them well nourished during t ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover Finds New Evidence of Water NASA's Mars rover Opportunity discovered a mineral vein telling of a warmer, wetter and potentially more conducive to life past for the seemingly cold, dry and desolate Red Planet. The mineral vein, ... more |
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Materials with unexpected electronic properties found in twisted layers
Are we ready for the ethical challenges of AI and robots
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  ASU acquires exotic piece of Mars ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies has acquired a significant new sample for its collection: a rare Martian meteorite that fell in southern Morocco in July 2011. It is the first Martian fall in abou ... more | .. |
 U.S. Denies Link to Mars Mission Failure A spokesperson at the Department of State denied information that the crash of the Phobos-Grunt probe to the Martian moon Phobos could have been caused by a powerful electromagnetic emission from a ... more | .. |
Space Agency Boss Blames Makers for Satellite Crash A Russian government commission looking into the crash of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe says engineering flaws were the main cause of its failure, the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Vladi ... more | .. |
 Adjusting Robotic Arm on Amboy Rock Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. Opportunity is conduc ... more |
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 Three Generations of Rovers with Crouching Engineers Two spacecraft engineers join a grouping of vehicles providing a comparison of three generations of Mars rovers developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The setting is JPL's M ... more | .. |
 'Flaws' blamed for Russian space failure The failure of a Russian Mars mission that crashed back to Earth was due to testing errors and engineering flaws, the head of the country's space agency says. ... more | .. |
 Lost in simulated space on the way to Mars China's Wang Yue was one of astronauts in the Mars-500 project to discover the effects of prolonged space flight on the body and mind. Wang Ru reports. Wang Yue, who is still recovering from 5 ... more | .. |
 Meteorite from Mars fell in Morocco: scientists Rare and expensive fragments of a Mars meteorite fell from the sky in July over Morocco, a team of international scientists confirmed on Wednesday. ... more |
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