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May 17, 2012
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JPL Invites all Earthlings to Annual Open House
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 16, 2012
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event, themed "Great Journeys," will take visitors on a "ride" through the wonders of space. Highlights include a life-size model of Mars Science Laboratory, the NASA/JPL spacecraft currently bound for Mars; demonstrations from numerous space missions; JPL's machine shop, where robotic spacecraft parts are built; and the Microdevices La ... read more

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MARSDAILY

WSU air-quality researcher to lead field studies in support of NASA Mars mission
Rural Eastern Washington will become a testing ground in support of a mission to explore the Martian atmosphere for potential evidence of life under a recently funded NASA project developed by scien ... more
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Mars Opportunity Rover Is A Go For More Travel
After being stationary for 130 sols during the winter, Opportunity has resumed driving again. On Sol 2947 (May 8, 2012), the rover performed a 12-foot (3.7-meter) drive down from her winter pe ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving
Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate a similar rover, Curi ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter
With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, NASA's durable Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, called Greeley Haven, where it worked during its fifth ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA Spacecraft Detects Changes in Martian Sand Dunes
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth. This is unexpecte ... more
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Technology developed at Caltech measures Martian sand movement
Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars-observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a ... more
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Prof Active In Mission To Determine Climate Change And Life On Mars
NASA's top scientists - including a Texas A and M University researcher - hope to find out how Mars' climate has evolved over billions of years, and answers could come soon in the mission involving ... more
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CoVar to develop Ethical Standards for Autonomous Systems under DARPA ASIMOV contract
US strikes Huthi targets in Yemen, hours after rebels hit Israel
Macron stresses Djibouti base as France loses Africa footholds
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MARSDAILY

Russia could join U.S. in Mars mission
Russia would be willing to be a partner with the United States on a manned mission to Mars, a Russian space official said at the United Nations. ... more
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Antarctic stay to mimic Mars mission
European scientists said they'll undergo four months of freezing darkness and isolation in Antarctica in preparation for a possible manned trip to Mars. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Terraforming a landscape for a robotic rover
Challenged to design a background for a small rover controlled from space, students in Germany have delivered a futuristic cityscape. The cool space art will be seen by astronauts in orbit via the r ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Express - Former lakes and rivers in Acidalia Planitia
The images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), carried on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft and operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), ... more
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MARSDAILY

Ancient Volcanic Blast Provides More Evidence of Water on Early Mars
The atmosphere of Mars is less than 1 percent the density of Earth's. It's one of the reasons liquid water covers much of our planet but cannot exist on the Red Planet. As more research points ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Rover Opportunity Hits Paydirt At Endeavour
A report in the May 4 edition of the journal Science details discoveries Opportunity made in its first four months at the rim of Endeavour Crater, including key findings reported at a geophysics con ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Getting Ready To Leave Her Winter Perch
Opportunity is still positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt, but not for much longer. With the improvement in sola ... more
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Opportunity's Eighth Anniversary View From Greeley Haven
This mosaic of images taken in mid-January 2012 shows the windswept vista northward (left) to northeastward (right) from the location where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is spending its ... more
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Studies of 'Amboy' Rock Continue as Solar Energy Improves
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. The solar insolation ... more
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MARSDAILY

Surviving the conditions on Mars
Alpine and polar lichens could also survive on Mars. Planetary researchers at the German Aerospace Center simulated the conditions on Mars for 34 days and exposed various microorganisms to this envi ... more
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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
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MARSDAILY

New form of Mars lava flow dicovered
High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells. Such patterns have been found in a few locations on Earth, but never before on Mar ... more
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MARSDAILY

100 Days and Counting to NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Landing
At 10:31 p.m. PDT April 27, (1:31 p.m. EDT), NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, carrying the one-ton Curiosity rover, will be within 100 days from its appointment with the Martian surface. At tha ... more
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MARSDAILY

Martian Volcanic Glass Could Be Hotspot for Life
Glass sand on Mars may point the way to chemically-rich water ideal for hosting life. The newly discovered glass dune fields, spread across almost a third of the planet, likely formed from interacti ... more
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Mars Express explores the roots of Martian volcanoes
Recent analysis of radio signals sent back by ESA's Mars Express orbiter has enabled a team of Belgian and German scientists to probe deep beneath the surface of Mars. The first targeted, high resol ... more
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Lava flows carved Mars valleys: study
Lava flows carved valleys on Mars, US scientists said Thursday amid a long-running debate over whether water or volcanoes formed part of the red planet's landscape. ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Russian RESONANCE and Interheliozond projects: linking Sun and Earth
Not nearly as spectacular as astrophysical or planetary missions, magnetospheric studies are nevertheless closer to the Earthling's wellbeing, since plasma environment in the immediate vicinity of t ... more
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MARSDAILY

People to Land on Mars in Next 40 Years
The world may see a manned spaceflight to Mars in the first half of this century, a prominent Russian academic said on Monday. "I think [a manned trip to Mars] will take place in the first hal ... more
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WSU astrobiologist proposes fleet of probes to seek life on Mars
A Washington State University astrobiologist is leading a group of 20 scientists in calling for a mission to Mars with "a strong and comprehensive life detection component." At the heart of their pr ... more
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MARSDAILY

Asteroid sites hint at life on Mars
Craters made by asteroid impacts may be the best place to look for signs of life on other planets, a study suggests. Tiny organisms have been discovered thriving deep underneath a site in the US whe ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Astronauts Could Risk DNA Damage
Future astronauts working on the Red Planet's surface risk general changes in health at the DNA level because of increased radiation exposure, a prominent Russian academic said on Monday. "Acc ... more
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Bringing Mars Back to Earth
The search for life should be an essential component of a sample return mission from Mars, according to a recent report examining the science behind such a venture. A team of scientists, inclu ... more
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Human health on Mars mission discussed
Future astronauts spending time on the surface of Mars may face radiation exposure levels that could increase the risk of DNA damage, Russian scientists say. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Benefits From Brighter Skies and Small Dust Cleaning of Solar Panels
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. The solar insolation ... more
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