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Opportunity Uses Robotic Arm Tools on RockPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 06, 2012 Opportunity continues to explore the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater, specifically the transition layer between Cape York and Meridiani Planum. Mars Odyssey has returned to service and supported downlinks on both Sols 2995 and 2996 (June 27 and 28, 2012). Previously Ultra High Frequency relay for the rover had been limited to just two relay passes per week from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. On Sol 2990 (June 21, 2012), in-situ measurements including the Microsc ... read more |
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 Evidence for Mars Life Could Come From Phobos A mission to a martian moon could return with alien life, according to experts at Purdue University, but don't expect the invasion scenario presented by summer blockbusters like "Men in Black 3" or ... more | .. |
 Life's molecules could lie within reach of Mars Curiosity rover Stick a shovel in the ground and scoop. That's about how deep scientists need to go in order to find evidence for ancient life on Mars, if there is any to be found, a new study suggests. That's with ... more | .. |
 Butterfly ejecta and wrinkle ridges in Melas Dorsa On 17 April 2012, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft acquired im ... more | .. |
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 Mars Panorama: Next Best Thing to Being There From fresh rover tracks to an impact crater blasted billions of years ago, a newly completed view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the ruddy terr ... more | .. |
 Fireworks Over Mars: The Spirit of 76 Pyrotechnics One month and a day after celebrating its independence with fireworks exhibitions throughout the country, America will carry its penchant for awe-inspiring aerial pyrotechnic displays to the skies o ... more | .. |
 Martian moon Phobos could be life clue 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. ... more | .. |
 Houston Workshop Marks Key Step in Planning Future Mars Missions 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 strategy in the coming decades. A report that ... more |
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 Getting a Feel for the Terrain It's a hot summer day, and your eyes spot an ice cream cart up ahead. Without even really thinking, you start walking that direction. Planetary scientists would like to give robots that kind of visu ... more | .. |
 Exhumed rocks reveal Mars water ran deep 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 the first billion years of the Red Plane ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing A maneuver on Tuesday adjusted the flight path of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target beside a Martian mountain. The car-size, one-ton ro ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Drives a Little 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, Ultra High Frequency (UHF) relay for ... more |
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 NASA tweaks flight path of Mars mission 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. ... more | .. |
 Extensive Water in Mars Interior 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 originating from inside the Red Planet. ... more | .. |
 Orbiter Out of Precautionary 'Safe Mode' 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 probably be completed by next week. ... more | .. |
 Researchers calculate size of particles in Martian clouds of CO2 snow 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 carbon dioxide. Most of the Martian atm ... more |
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As world burns, India's Amitav Ghosh writes for the future
Fire on Ice: The Arctic's Changing Fire Regime
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 ESA tests self-steering rover in 'Mars' desert 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 was charting its own course through Ch ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Faces Slow Going Due To Communication Issues Opportunity has been investigating light-toned veins around the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Recently, things became complicated, first by Mars Odyssey orbiter going ... more | .. |
Test of Spare Wheel Puts Odyssey on Path to Recovery 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 use with two other reaction wheels in a ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rover Team Aims for Landing Closer to Prime Science Site 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 its ultimate destination for science ... more |
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 Impact atlas catalogs over 635,000 Martian craters 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 pounding its surface over billions of ... more | .. |
 e2v imaging sensors launched into space on NASA mission to Mars 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 mission, which plans to land a rover name ... more | .. |
  CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils ... more | .. |
Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself into Standby Safe Mode NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a precautionary standby status early Friday, June 8, Universal Time (Thursday evening, Pacific Time), when the spacecraft detected unexpected characterist ... more |
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 Robotic Arm Gets to Work on Veins of Gypsum 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 feet (11 meters) to the northeas ... more | .. |
 Russia May Join Mars Orbiter Project in Nov. - ESA 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, ESA spokesman Rene Pischel said on F ... more | .. |
 NASA's Mars rover zeroes in on August landing 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, the US space agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Rocket Sled Tests Are Technology Pathway to Safely Land Humans, Habitats and Cargo on Mars 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 Planet's atmosphere and slowing down ... more |
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 Mars crater shows evidence for climate evolution ESA's Mars Express has provided images of a remarkable crater on Mars that may show evidence that the planet underwent significant periodic fluctuations in its climate due to changes in its rotation ... more | .. |
 On The Hunt For Light-Toned Veins Of Gypsum Opportunity completed her in-situ (contact) investigation of a dust patch on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is now on the hunt for more light-toned veins of gyp ... more | .. |
 Wind may have driven avalanches on Martian dunes In the sand dunes in the north polar sand sea of Mars, sand avalanches that appear as wedge-shaped alcoves can be seen above fan-shaped deposits. The avalanches, which are typically several meters a ... more | .. |
 Mars missions may learn from meteor Down Under A discovery about the make-up of the atmosphere of Mars could help inform future missions searching for life there. Scientists have tried to find out how the planet's environment came to contain met ... more |
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