MARS

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Exhumed rocks reveal Mars water ran deep
Jun 29, 2012 (ESA)
By studying rocks blasted out of impact craters, ESA's Mars Express has found evidence that underground water persisted at depth for prolonged periods during th...
Martian moon Phobos could be life clue
Jun 29, 2012 (UPI)
Evidence of life on Mars could come not from a mission to the Red Planet but from one sent to the martian moon Phobos, U.S. researchers said. "A sample from the...
Houston Workshop Marks Key Step in Planning Future Mars Missions
Jun 28, 2012 (SPX)
A recent workshop conducted for NASA by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, marked a key step in the agency's effort to forge a new Mars strateg...
Opportunity Drives a Little
Jun 27, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity has been exploring the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. With Mars Odyssey still working to recover from their safe mode event,...
NASA tweaks flight path of Mars mission
Jun 26, 2012 (UPI)
NASA says a maneuver Tuesday adjusted the flight path of its Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target on Mars. ...
Extensive Water in Mars Interior
Jun 25, 2012 (SPX)
Until now, Earth was the only planet known to have vast reservoirs of water in its interior. Scientists analyzed the water content of two Martian meteorites ori...
Extensive water in Mars' interior
Jun 22, 2012 (SPX)
Until now, Earth was the only planet known to have vast reservoirs of water in its interior. Scientists analyzed the water content of two Martian meteorites ori...
Orbiter Out of Precautionary 'Safe Mode'
Jun 21, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has been taken out of a protective status called safe mode. Remaining steps toward resuming all normal spacecraft activities will pr...
Researchers calculate size of particles in Martian clouds of CO2 snow
Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)
In the dead of a Martian winter, clouds of snow blanket the Red Planet's poles - but unlike our water-based snow, the particles on Mars are frozen crystals of c...
ESA tests self-steering rover in 'Mars' desert
Jun 20, 2012 (ESA)
ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle ...
Opportunity Faces Slow Going Due To Communication Issues
Jun 15, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity has been investigating light-toned veins around the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Recently, things became complicated, firs...
Test of Spare Wheel Puts Odyssey on Path to Recovery
Jun 15, 2012 (JPL)
In a step toward returning NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to full service, mission controllers have tested a spare reaction wheel on the spacecraft for potential u...
NASA Mars Rover Team Aims for Landing Closer to Prime Science Site
Jun 12, 2012 (JPL)
NASA has narrowed the target for its most advanced Mars rover, Curiosity, which will land on the Red Planet in August. The car-sized rover will arrive closer to...
Impact atlas catalogs over 635,000 Martian craters
Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)
It's no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet - astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot ...
e2v imaging sensors launched into space on NASA mission to Mars
Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)
On Saturday 26th November, e2v high performance imaging sensors were launched into space onboard an Atlas V rocket as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mis...
Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself into Standby Safe Mode
Jun 11, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a precautionary standby status early Friday, June 8, Universal Time (Thursday evening, Pacific Time), when the space...
Russia May Join Mars Orbiter Project in Nov. - ESA
Jun 11, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russian space agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) could sign a final agreement on Russia's participation in a Mars research project in November...
NASA's Mars rover zeroes in on August landing
Jun 11, 2012 (AFP)
NASA's Mars rover, nicknamed Curiosity, is zeroing in on its August landing on the Red Planet and aims to touch down closer than expected to its mountain target...
Robotic Arm Gets to Work on Veins of Gypsum
Jun 11, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is investigating light-toned veins around the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 2969 (May 31, 2012), the rover drove 36 ...
Rocket Sled Tests Are Technology Pathway to Safely Land Humans, Habitats and Cargo on Mars
Jun 08, 2012 (SPX)
Traveling 300 million miles through deep space to reach the planet Mars is difficult; successfully landing there is even harder. The process of entering the Red...
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