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Strange Martian Landforms Are Paleo Climate Clues
Tuscon AZ (SPX) Oct 30, 2008One of the most fun and fascinating aspects of space exploration is discovering geological processes and terrain different from those found on our home planet, says Matt Balme, who is leading a team that's decoding Martian mystery landscapes known as Transverse Aeolian Ridges or TARs. Balme, a research scientist with the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, says TARs have no exact ... more US space probe completes successful Mercury fly-pass 
Washington (AFP) Oct 29, 2008The US space probe MESSENGER made its second successful fly-by of the year of the planet Mercury on October 6, revealing like never before 30 percent of the solar system's smallest planet, scientists said Thursday. MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) soared past the innermost planet's equator at an altitude of 201 kilometers at a speed of ... more NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 29, 2008In a race against time and the elements, engineers with NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission hope to extend the lander's survival by gradually shutting down some of its instruments and heaters, starting today. Originally scheduled to last 90 days, Phoenix has completed a fifth month of exploration in the Martian arctic. As expected, with the Martian northern hemisphere shifting from summer ... more NASA Orbiter Reveals Details Of A Wetter Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 29, 2008NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars. This discovery suggests that liquid water remained on the planet's surface a billion years later than scientists believed, and it played an important role in shaping the planet's surface and possibly hosting life. Researchers examining data from the orbiter's Compact Reconnaissa ... more Mars pioneers should stay there permanently, says Buzz Aldrin 
Paris (AFP) Oct 23, 2008The first astronauts sent to Mars should be prepared to spend the rest of their lives there, in the same way that European pioneers headed to America knowing they would not return home, says moonwalker Buzz Aldrin. In an interview with AFP, the second man to set foot on the Moon said the Red Planet offered far greater potential than Earth's satellite as a place for habitation. With what ... more |
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Sriharikota, India (PTI) Oct 23, 2008Scientists world over have detailed maps of Mars but not of the moon. Chandrayaan-I, India's maiden moon mission, is carrying 11 instruments which will help prepare comprehensive maps of the earth's only natural satellite -- the moon. The maps could be of immense help when Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and other space agencies plan to land spacecraft on the lunar surface or ... more Laser could aid search for life on Mars 
Idaho Falls, Idaho (UPI) Oct 21, 2008 U.S. government scientists say they've developed technology that enables a laser to detect minuscule traces of cells in a mineral likely present on Mars. Researchers said the instrument they created at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory could help scientists select martian surface samples with the most promise for yielding signs of life. The new laser blast ... more Europe delays ExoMars mission, again 
London (UPI) Oct 18, 2008 The European Space Agency says it's delaying its unmanned mission to Mars until 2016 and may seek help from Russia and the United States. It is the second big delay for the ExoMars Rover -- Europe's flagship space mission, the BBC reported Saturday, noting the launch already had been pushed back from 2011 to 2013 because of difficulties with the early stages of the mission's design. ... more Simulating Survival In Space 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2008Cabin Fever - the phrase invokes grisly stories of claustrophobia and backwoods murder. If close confinement tends to provoke intense emotions and even violence over time, then how will humans cope on a long voyage to Mars? While it's obvious that the future explorers of Mars will need protection from the stress of space travel and the harsh martian environment, they also may need ... more |
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Tuscon AZ (SPX) Oct 17, 2008An odd, solitary hill rising part-way down an eroding slope in Mars' north polar layered terrain may be the remnant of a buried impact crater, suggests a University of Arizona planetary scientist who studied the feature in a new, detailed image from the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The north polar layered deposits are stacked up to several kilometers thick and ... more Phoenix Mars Mission Honored By Popular Mechanics 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission is being honored with a Breakthrough Award by Popular Mechanics magazine in New York City. In its fourth year, the awards recognize innovators who improve lives and expand possibilities in science, technology, engineering and exploration. Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, principal investigator for Phoenix, is accepting the award on behalf of the Phoenix ... more ESA Closes In On The Origin Of Mars' Larger Moon 
Parsi, France (ESA) Oct 17, 2008European space scientists are getting closer to unravelling the origin of Mars' larger moon, Phobos. Thanks to a series of close encounters by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, the moon looks almost certain to be a 'rubble pile', rather than a single solid object. However, mysteries remain about where the rubble came from. Unlike Earth, with its single large moon, Mars plays host to two ... more Young Researchers To Explore The Mysteries Of Our Solar System 
London, UK (SPX) Oct 16, 2008Three young researchers are starting exciting new fellowships in UK Universities dedicated to exploring and uncovering the mysteries of our Solar System. The new positions - part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Aurora Fellowships scheme - all begin this academic year and will run for three years. The next round of recruitment for Aurora Fellows was announced this ... more
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