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Phoenix Completes Longest Work Shift
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 24, 2008Phoenix early Tuesday finished its longest work shift of the mission. The lander stayed awake for 33 hours, completing tasks that included rasping and scraping by the robotic arm, in addition to atmosphere observations in coordination with simultaneous observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. "Our rasping test yesterday gave us enough confidence that we're now planning for the ... more NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 22, 2008To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time. Phoenix is using its weather station, stereo camera and conductivity probe to monitor changes in the lower atmosphere and ground surface at the same time NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter studies ... more Mars Sample Return: Bridging Robotic And Human Exploration 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 22, 2008The first robotic mission to return samples to Earth from Mars took a further step toward realisation with the recent publication of a mission design report by the iMARS Working Group. The report, defines key elements of the future internationally-funded mission involving the cooperation of ESA, NASA and other national agencies. iMARS, which stands for the International Mars ... more NASA Studies Earth's High Arctic For Evidence Of Life On Early Mars 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2008Later this month, NASA's Spaceward Bound program will send a team of scientists and teachers to explore the permanently frozen landscape of Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian high Arctic. During the July 25 to Aug. 2, 2008, expedition, scientists will challenge their minds in an extreme polar research environment as they map icy structures and study microbes that live in the permafrost. ... more When Mars Was A Water World 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2008Mars once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life, according to two new studies based on data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) and other instruments on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). "The big surprise from these new results is how pervasive and long-lasting Mars' ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 18, 2008Little did Bucknell University geology professors Craig Kochel and Jeffrey Trop know as they were working in Alaska that they would soon predict one of the most important planetary observations ever made. The pair were in Alaska for an eight day trip in July 2006, studying geological features and the processes that create them. As they studied photographs taken of the surrounding area ... more Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers A 3D View Of Its Surrounds 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 18, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. The images in the new 3-D Gallery combine views from the left and right "eyes" of the lander's Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) so that they appear three-dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses. The first 14 images in the gallery were handpicked by Mark Lemmon, SSI lead scientist ... more MSSS Delivers Mars Rover Science Instrument To JPL 
San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 18, 2008Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS), has delivered the first of four science cameras it is developing for the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2009 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover mission. This camera, the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI--see Figure 1) is designed to provide a sequence of hundreds of 2 Megapixel color images of the martian surface during the rover's descent about two ... more Space chiefs ponder ISS transport problem, post-2015 future 
Paris (AFP) July 17, 2008The heads of five agencies building the International Space Station staged talks here Thursday on tackling a looming transport problem for the ISS and gave positive signals for extending the orbital outpost's life beyond 2015. The ISS will need extra transport for crew and freight to substitute for the US space shuttle, scheduled to be retired in 2010 when the ISS is completed. ... more |
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Paris (AFP) July 15, 2008Pluto - downgraded two years ago to the status of a dwarf planet - has an exotically-named chum on the fringes of the Solar System. The Paris-based International Astronomical Union has decided to honour a Kuiper Belt object, 2005 FY9, with the name of Makemake, after the creator of humanity and the god of fertility in the Rapa Nui culture of Easter Island. ... more Phoenix Mars Lander Rasping At Frozen Layer 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 16, 2008A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice. The lander has used its arm in recent days to clear away loose soil from a subsurface layer of hard-frozen material and create a large enough area to use the motorized rasp in a trench informally named "Snow White." ... more Phoenix Mars Lander Extends Trench 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 16, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens. The trench was about 20 by 30 centimeters (8 by 12 inches) after work by the arm on Saturday. The team sent commands yesterday to extend the longer dimension by about 15 centimeters (6 inches). ... more Russia To Study Martian Moons Once Again 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 15, 2008On July 7 and July 12, 1988, the Soviet Union launched two space probes, Phobos-1 and Phobos-2, to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars and its moons, Phobos, named after the Greek word for Fear, and Deimos, Terror. Both spacecraft were to have conducted studies of the interplanetary environment en route to Mars, take observations of the Sun and survey the plasma environment around the ... more
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