Mars News from MarsDaily.com 03-JUL-09 en-us London, UK (SPX) Jun 30, 2009 - New research led by a UK scientist indicates that Mars had significantly warmer weather in its recent past than previously thought.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2009 - Spirit is continuing her ambitious remote sensing and in-situ (contact) science observations at the location called "Troy" on the west side of Home Plate.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2009 - Opportunity has been moving toward a candidate patch of rock outcrop in preparation for a rest of the mobility system over the coming holiday. There continues to be concern with the elevated motor currents seen in the right front wheel.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2009 - NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history.]]> San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 25, 2009 - With the whoosh of compressed gas and the whir of unspooling wire, a team of Boulder scientists and engineers tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep inside Mars.]]> Tampa FL (SPX) Jun 25, 2009 - 4Frontiers Corporation is pleased to announce that it is spearheading this summer's expedition to the Mars Society's Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2009 - Spirit remains stationary on the west side of Home Plate in the location called "Troy". The rover continues to be busy with an ambitious observation campaign employing both remote sensing and in-situ (contact) science with the robotic arm (instrument deployment device, IDD).]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2009 - Opportunity has been stationary this week resting the right-front drive actuator. During this time, the rover is conducting a series of robotic arm (IDD) activities.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2009 - NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit, positioning itself to look down at the day side of the planet in mid-afternoon instead of late afternoon.]]> Paris, France (ESA) Jun 22, 2009 - On 14 July, a crew of six will leave their Mars mission simulator and see the Sun once again. The crew, which includes a French pilot and a German engineer selected by the European Space Agency, will have completed 105 days of confinement and numerous scientific experiment runs inside the isolation facility at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow.]]>