MARS

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Flash-Memory Reformat Successful
Sep 15, 2014 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals. The rover's Flash file sys...
India's spacecraft 'on target' to reach Mars
Sep 15, 2014 (AFP)
An Indian spacecraft is on course to reach Mars, an official said Monday, following a 666-million-kilometre voyage that could see New Delhi's low-cost space pro...
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain
Sep 12, 2014 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has reached the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, a Mount-Rainier-size mountain at the center of the vast Gale Crater and the rover mission'...
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover reaches 'far frontier'
Sep 11, 2014 (AFP)
NASA's $2.5 billion Curiosity rover has reached the base of the Martian mountain it aims to explore and should start drilling rocks there soon, US space agency ...
Flash-Memory Reformat On Opportunity Underway
Sep 10, 2014 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals. The project is taking step...
Mars Rover Opportunity's Vista Includes Long Tracks
Sep 10, 2014 (JPL)
From a ridgeline viewpoint, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recently recorded a scene looking back over its own tracks made from nearly half a mile (m...
MAVEN Spacecraft Makes Final Preparations For Mars
Sep 09, 2014 (SPX)
On Sept. 21, 2014, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft will complete roughly 10 months of travel and enter orbit around the Red Planet. The or...
Robots do battle over Mars exploration
Sep 05, 2014 (AFP)
Robots built to traverse the rugged terrain of Mars battled it out in Poland on Friday in a competition to find the best way to explore the Red Planet. The Euro...
Opportunity Flash-Memory Reformat Planned
Sep 01, 2014 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading toward 'Marathon Valley', a putative location for abundant clay minerals. However, flash-memory induc...
Memory Reformat Planned for Opportunity Mars Rover
Sep 01, 2014 (JPL)
An increasing frequency of computer resets on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has prompted the rover team to make plans to reformat the rover's flash ...
Scientist uncovers red planet's climate history in unique meteorite
Aug 29, 2014 (SPX)
Was Mars - now a cold, dry place - once a warm, wet planet that sustained life? And if so, how long has it been cold and dry? Research underway at the National ...
A Salty, Martian Meteorite Offers Clues to Habitability
Aug 29, 2014 (NASA)
Life as we know it requires energy of some sort to survive and thrive. For plants, that source of energy is the Sun. But there are some microbes that can surviv...
Opportunity Mars Rover Suffers a Series of Resets
Aug 26, 2014 (JPL)
Opportunity is moving south along the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals. More recen...
Mars Rover Team Chooses Not to Drill 'Bonanza King'
Aug 25, 2014 (JPL)
Evaluation of a pale, flat Martian rock as the potential next drilling target for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover determined that the rock was not stable enough for...
Indian orbiter to reach Mars in 33 days
Aug 25, 2014 (XNA)
India's Mars Orbiter Mission was nine million km away from the red planet and is expected to reach it in 33 days, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said...
Mars thigh bone is really just a rock spotted by Curiosity
Aug 22, 2014 (UPI)
The Internet says thigh bone; NASA scientists say plain old rock. Is the latest photo from Mars, snapped by the Curiosity rover and beamed back to Earth, proof ...
Curiosity's Brushwork on Martian 'Bonanza King' Target
Aug 21, 2014 (JPL)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the Dust Removal Tool on its robotic arm to brush aside reddish, more-oxidized dust, revealing a gray patch of less-oxidized ro...
Humans to Mars a Principle of Space Exploration
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
Let's say it straight. Mars is, without any doubt our next step in space exploration, sparking our imagination for many years in spaceflight history. After send...
Life on Mars? Implications of a newly discovered mineral-rich structure
Aug 20, 2014 (SPX)
A new ovoid structure discovered in the Nakhla Martian meteorite is made of nanocrystalline iron-rich clay, contains a variety of minerals, and shows evidence o...
Twin Galileos meet, ready for Thursday's launch
Aug 19, 2014 (ESA)
Final functional testing of Europe's twin Galileo navigation satellites has been completed at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, on track for launch this Thur...
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