MARS

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Fostering Curiosity: Mars Express relays rocky images
Nov 27, 2012 (ESA)
For the first time, ESA's Mars orbiter has relayed scientific data from NASA's Curiosity rover on the Red Planet's surface. The data included detailed images of...
NASA monitors massive dust storm on Mars
Nov 26, 2012 (AFP)
The US space agency says it is monitoring a massive dust storm on Mars that has produced atmospheric changes. It's the first time since the 1970s that NASA is s...
Intrigue from Mars, or Grotzinger's silence
Nov 25, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
Mars rover Curiosity has collected shocking data that may make it into the history books, John Grotzinger, lead scientist of the Mars Science Laboratory mission...
Spacecraft Monitoring Martian Dust Storm
Nov 25, 2012 (JPL)
A Martian dust storm that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been tracking since last week has also produced atmospheric changes detectable by rovers on Mar...
Curiosity Team May Reveal Major Discovery Soon
Nov 22, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
The Curiosity Mars rover has made a potentially explosive discovery, experts said, but NASA scientists are keeping it under wraps to double-check the spacecraft...
Curiosity Rover Preparing for Thanksgiving Activities
Nov 22, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed a touch-and-go inspection of one rock on Sunday, Nov. 18, then pivoted and, on the same day, drove toward a Thanksgiving o...
Meteorite samples provide definitive evidence of water and rock types on Mars
Nov 22, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, NASA's Johnson Space Center, Lunar Planetary Institute, and Carnegie Institute of Washington report on geochem...
Life on Mars? Maybe not. NASA rows back on findings
Nov 21, 2012 (AFP)
NASA downplayed Wednesday talk of a major discovery by its Martian rover after remarks by the mission chief raised hopes it may have unearthed evidence life onc...
Martian And Terran History Finding a common denominator
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
A team of scientists, including Carnegie's Conel Alexander and Jianhua Wang, studied the hydrogen in water from the Martian interior and found that Mars formed ...
Instrument Delivered for NASA's Upcoming Mars Mission
Nov 19, 2012 (SPX)
A remote sensing instrument that will peer into the ultraviolet to offer clues to how Mars might have lost its atmosphere has arrived at Lockheed Martin for int...
Melt water on Mars could sustain life
Nov 19, 2012 (SPX)
Near surface water has shaped the landscape of Mars. Areas of the planet's northern and southern hemispheres have alternately thawed and frozen in recent geolog...
CU LASP package ready for MAVEN integration bound for Mars
Nov 19, 2012 (SPX)
A $20 million remote sensing instrument package built by the University of Colorado Boulder, which is leading a 2013 NASA mission to understand how Mars might h...
Meteorites reveal warm water existed on Mars
Nov 19, 2012 (SPX)
New research by the University of Leicester and The Open University into evidence of water on Mars, sufficiently warm enough to support life, has been published...
Mars radiation levels not lethal to humans
Nov 17, 2012 (UPI)
The Mars rover Curiosity found radiation levels on Mars are not lethal to humans, U.S. researchers say. "Absolutely, astronauts can live in this environment," s...
Survey At 'Matijevic Hill' Wrapping Up
Nov 16, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is nearing the completion of the local area survey around the location called "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edg...
NASA Rover Providing New Weather and Radiation Data About Mars
Nov 16, 2012 (JPL)
Observations of wind patterns and natural radiation patterns on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover are helping scientists better understand the environment on the R...
New views of the Martian ionosphere
Nov 16, 2012 (ESA)
High above the main body of Mars' atmosphere is a region of weakly ionised gas, known as the ionosphere. For the last eight years this poorly understood region ...
Rover's 'SAM' Lab Instrument Suite Tastes Soil
Nov 15, 2012 (JPL)
A pinch of fine sand and dust became the first solid Martian sample deposited into the biggest instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity: the Sample Analysis at...
What Arctic Rocks Say About Mars: An Interview with Hans Amundsen
Nov 13, 2012 (SPX)
In 1996, a research group led by Dave McKay of NASA's Johnson Space Center claimed to have found evidence of fossilized life in a Mars meteorite. Not only did t...
Mars orbiter back online after system swap
Nov 13, 2012 (UPI)
NASA says its Mars Odyssey orbiter has resumed duty after switching to a set of redundant equipment not used since before the spacecraft's 2001 launch. The swap...
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