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Illinois Company Among Hundreds Supporting NASA Mission to Mars
May 29, 2017 (VOA)
"I would doubt many people in Rockford know Ingersoll is manufacturing these components," Mike Reese, director of sales for Ingersoll Machine Tools, told VOA. B...
Student-Made Mars Rover Concepts Lift Off
May 28, 2017 (SPX)
That's how it felt for researchers from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and students from Virginia Tech and the University of Central Flori...
Preparations Continue Before Driving into 'Perseverance Valley'
May 26, 2017 (JPL)
The plan before proceeding down the valley is to survey the valley from the top and to perform a walk-about survey above the spillway. On Sol 4733 (May 17, 2017...
Schiaparelli landing investigation completed
May 25, 2017 (ESA)
The Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing demonstrator module separated from its mothership, the Trace Gas Orbiter, as planned on 16 October last year, and co...
HI-SEAS Mission V Mars simulation marks midway point
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
"The midpoint is an interesting time in the mission," observed crewmember Brian Ramos. "In some sense, time has been flying by. It sounds a little crazy, but I ...
Deciphering the fluid floorplan of a planet
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
The movement of liquids such as water across a planetary surface forms rivers, signatures of which can be seen even long after the liquid has disappeared - as w...
How hard did it rain on Mars
May 17, 2017 (SPX)
The fourth planet from the sun, Mars has geological features like the Earth and moon, such as craters and valleys, many of which were formed through rainfall. A...
Mars Rover Opportunity Begins Study of Valley's Origin
May 16, 2017 (JPL)
As the rover approached the upper end of "Perseverance Valley" in early May, images from its cameras began showing parts of the area in greater resolution than ...
Opportunity Reaches 'Perseverance Valley'
May 12, 2017 (JPL)
The next step on Sol 4720 (May 4, 2017), was a short approach of 39 feet (12 meters) to the northern end of the "spillway" that overtops into Perseverance. From...
Ancient Mars impacts created tornado-like winds that scoured surface
May 12, 2017 (SPX)
Using geological observation, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling, Schultz and Brown graduate student Stephanie Quintana have offered a new expl...
Seasonal Flows in Valles Marineris
May 08, 2017 (JPL)
Here, the RSL are active on east-facing slopes, extending from bouldery terrain and terminating on fans. Perhaps the fans themselves built up over time from the...
NASA Rover Curiosity Samples Active Linear Dune on Mars
May 05, 2017 (JPL)
From early February to early April, the rover examined four sites near a linear dune for comparison with what it found in late 2015 and early 2016 during its in...
Is Anything Tough Enough to Survive on Mars
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
Two recent publications suggest that life, in the form of ancient, simple organisms called methanogens, could survive the harsh conditions found near the surfac...
Japan aims to uncover how moons of Mars formed
May 03, 2017 (The Conversation)
The Solar System's planets take their names from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Mars is the god of war, while the red planet's two moons are named for the d...
Several drives put opportunity closer to 'Perseverance Valley'
May 02, 2017 (JPL)
On Sol 4706 (April 19, 2017), she drove about 66 feet (20 meters). On 4708 (April 22, 2017), she drove another 207 feet (63 meters), and on Sol 4710 (April 24, ...
Engineers investigate simple, no-bake recipe to make bricks on Mars
Apr 28, 2017 (SPX)
These are the findings of a study published in Scientific Reports on April 27, 2017. The study was authored by a team of engineers at the University of Californ...
Opportunity Nears 'Perseverance Valley'
Apr 27, 2017 (JPL)
The rover drove on Sols 4693 and 4695 (April 6 and April 8, 2017), covering 46 feet (14.11 meters) and 138 feet (41.94 meters), respectively and is now within 0...
How Old are Martian Gullies
Apr 27, 2017 (JPL)
Distinctive colors in the gully channels and alcoves offer another indication of youth and recent activity. The pre-gully landscape is covered by secondary crat...
SwRI-led team discovers lull in Mars' giant impact history
Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)
This discovery is published in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience in a paper titled, "A post-accretionary lull in large impacts on early Mars." SwRI's Dr. Bi...
Danish Martian Experts Get Their Hands on a Piece of 'Black Beauty'
Apr 24, 2017 (Sputnik)
The Natural History Museum (NHM) in Copenhagen has obtained a piece of Mars: it has procured a piece of a famous Martian meteorite, known as "Black Beauty." The...
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