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Bacteria In Rio Tinto Could Be Like Those On Mars
Jan 14, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain. The ...
Mars500 project - salt balance of the Mars 'astronauts'
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
For 205 days in 2011, Jens Titze, Professor of Electrolyte and Circulatory Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and his team strictly controlled th...
NASA's Big Mars Rover Makes First Use Of Its Brush
Jan 10, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed first-time use of a brush it carries to sweep dust off rocks. Nearing the end of a series of first-time uses of the ro...
Simulated mission to Mars reveals critical data about sleep needs for astronauts
Jan 10, 2013 (SPX)
In the first study of its kind, a team of researchers led by faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Baylor College...
Lockheed Martin Delivered Core Structure For First GOES-R Satellite
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin delivered the core structure for the first in a series of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s next-generation geostatio...
India scales down experimental flying payloads for exploring Mars
Jan 08, 2013 (XNA)
India has scaled down its flying experimental payloads for exploring the Mars by reducing the payload from 25 kg to 15 kg, local media reported on Sunday. The M...
Opportunity Scores Another Dust Cleaning Event At Vermillion
Jan 07, 2013 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover has been conducting in-situ (contact) science investigations with th...
Ancient Water-rich Meteorite Linked to Martian Crust
Jan 07, 2013 (SPX)
While the Mars' Rovers continue to scour the surface of the Red Planet snapping pictures, zapping rocks and looking at any other clues about its composition, re...
'Black Beauty' could yield Martian secrets
Jan 07, 2013 (AFP)
A fist-sized meteorite nicknamed "Black Beauty" could unlock vital clues to the evolution of Mars from the warm and wet place it once was to its current cold an...
Researchers Identify Water Rich Meteorite Linked To Mars Crust
Jan 04, 2013 (JPL)
NASA-funded researchers analyzing a small meteorite that may be the first discovered from the Martian surface or crust have found it contains 10 times more wate...
Stanford researchers develop acrobatic space rovers to explore moons and asteroids
Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)
Stanford researchers, in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have designed a robotic platform tha...
Mars meteorite has significant water
Jan 03, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says a small meteorite, possibly the first discovered from the martian surface, contains 10 times more water than meteorites that later originated on Mars....
ARCA will test the parachutes for the ExoMars spacecraft
Jan 02, 2013 (SPX)
ARCA and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a 1,1 mil. $ contract for the ExoMars, High Altitude Drop Test - Balloon Flight Services Program (HADT-BFS). Dur...
'Spiky' rovers could explore martian moon
Jan 02, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. researches say autonomous rovers exploring moons and asteroids could be a significant step toward a human mission to Mars. Researches at Stanford Universit...
Curiosity Rover Takes Detailed Self-Portrait on Mars
Dec 30, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
A series of photos taken by NASA's Curiosity and combined into a single composite picture offer a rare, detailed glimpse of the rover patrolling the surface of ...
Russia May Join ExoMars Project in Q1 2013
Dec 28, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) could sign a long-anticipated agreement on Russia's participation in a Mars resea...
Working Through the Holidays
Dec 28, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater, positioned at a location called "Copper Cliff." Over the long holiday period, ...
Clays on Mars: More Plentiful Than Expected
Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)
A new study co-authored by the Georgia Institute of Technology indicates that clay minerals, rocks that usually form when water is present for long periods of t...
Opportunity For Some Shoulder Workout At Copper Cliff
Dec 21, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is working at "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. There, the rove...
Curiosity Rover Explores 'Yellowknife Bay'
Dec 19, 2012 (JPL)
The NASA Mars rover Curiosity this week is driving within a shallow depression called "Yellowknife Bay," providing information to help researchers choose a rock...
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