Mars News from MarsDaily.com 05-NOV-09 en-us College Station TX (SPX) Nov 05, 2009 - Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, drastically low temperatures and out-of-this-world dust storms, and Istvan Szunyogh, a Texas A and M professor of atmospheric sciences, has been awarded a NASA grant to analyze and forecast Martian weather.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2009 - Opportunity has been making good progress driving. After completing a survey of meteorites recently, Opportunity has turned south around the point of a large ripple field. Eventually, the rover will resume heading east towards Endeavour crater.]]> Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 02, 2009 - If you found your grandmother's diary, tattered and dust covered, up in the attic, would you read it? Of course you would. Granny was a pistol! Brush off the dust, open up the little book, and foray into her lively and interesting past.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2009 - Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 29, 2009 - This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, this view covers an area about 3 kilometers (2 miles) wide.]]> Moscow, Russia (XNA) Oct 28, 2009 - The future Mars manned exploration projects will only become true by using nuclear energy, said President and Chief Designer of Russia's Energia Aerospace Corporation Vitaly Lopota here on Monday.]]> Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 28, 2009 - The Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Problems continues to recruit volunteers for participation in a 520-day simulation of an expedition to Mars, the institute said Monday.]]> Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Oct 28, 2009 - Is the Earth the only place in our Solar System on which living organisms exist? Is there, for example, life on Mars? The goal of the European space mission ExoMars is to resolve this question. To this end, the atmosphere on Mars is being simulated at the German Aerospace Center in Gottingen.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2009 - Spirit has recovered from X-band fault and is using her steerable high-gain antenna (HGA) normally. The clearing of the X-band fault was to occur on Sol 2056 (Oct. 15, 2009), but a Deep Space Network (DSN) station outage at the last minute prevented the commands from reaching the rover.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 26, 2009 - Opportunity surveyed another meteorite and has been driving ambitiously to the west and south to get around a field of large ripples. On Sol 2038, Opportunity circumnavigated a meteorite called "Mackinac," conducting mid-drive imagery of the rock, then drove away covering about 70 meters (230 feet) to the southwest.]]>