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January 07, 2014

Decade-Old Rover Adventure Continues on Mars and Earth
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 06, 2014
Eighth graders didn't have Facebook or Twitter to share news back then, in January 2004. Bekah Sosland, 14 at the time, learned about a NASA rover landing on Mars when the bouncing-ball video on the next morning's Channel One news in her Fredericksburg, Texas, classroom caught her eye. "I wasn't particularly interested in space at the time," she recalled last week inside the spacecraft operations facility where she now works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "I remember I was ... read more

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Clues from Orbit Aiding Exploration Of Opportunity Rover The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for energy production. Opportunity is positioned on the edge of an exposed outcrop where orbital observations suggest the possible presence of smal ... more		More than 1,000 chosen for one-way Mars reality-TV mission More than 1,000 candidates - from 200,000 hopefuls - have been chosen to train for a private Mars colonisation mission to be partly funded by a reality-TV show following their training and subsequent steps, organisers said Thursday. ... more		Potential Martians: Mars One selects 1,058 hopefuls among 200,000 applicants The Mars One project has announced the selection of 1,058 hopefuls from over 200,000 applicants to become potential "human ambassadors" on the Red Planet. Eventually, no more than 40 people will be ... more
				'Mars One' will reveal if there is life outside Earth Mars One is a non-profit organization that plans to establish a permanent human colony on Mars by 2025. The private spaceflight project is led by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp, who announced plans ... more		Mars One mission: big work ahead Around 200,000 people have applied for a one-way mission to Mars, though it's still pretty unclear if and when the ambitious project to colonize the "red planet" is going to take place. Some believe ... more

Curious Results from Mars NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on Mars with dramatic style in August, 2012. Now that the rover has spent more than a year exploring the martian surface, scientific data from the mission is star ... more		Dwarf Planet Ceres - 'A Game Changer in the Solar System' In March of 2015, NASA's Dawn mission will arrive at the dwarf planet Ceres, the first of the smaller class of planets to be discovered and the closest to Earth. Ceres, which orbits the Sun in the a ... more		'Sign of life': defence boom lifts German factory orders MDA Space wins role in US SHIELD missile defense program Starfighters completes supersonic tests for GE Aerospace ramjet program		ISRO end year on high note after Mars mission The successful launch of India's first inter-planetary Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), the sending up of India's first navigation satellite midnight, the launch of the Indo-French satellite SARAL, and s ... more
				Mars rover Curiosity gets software upgrade, improved capabilities NASA says its Mars rover Curiosity has had a technology "tuneup," a software upgrade that will advance the rover's capabilities. ... more		Mars One mission: one way ticket to new life 200,000 people from 140 countries have applied for a one-way ticket to Mars. The applicants agreed to stay on the Red Planet for the rest of their lives and be filmed for a reality TV program, accor ... more

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Mars Express heading towards daring flyby of Phobos Late this month, ESA's Mars Express will make the closest flyby yet of the Red Planet's largest moon Phobos, skimming past at only 45 km above its surface. The flyby on 29 December will be so ... more		Curiosity Team Upgrades Software, Checks Wheel Wear The team operating NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed a software upgrade on the vehicle and is next planning a check of wear and tear on the rover's wheels. "Curiosity is now operating ... more		China geospatial information industry approaches 1 trillion yuan output Creating hallucination-free, psychedelic-like molecules by shining light on life's basic building blocks Drones take thermal readings to track dolphin health		JPL to Test New Supersonic Decelerator Technology A giant crane will tower above NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., shooting out of a hilly mesa like an oversized erector set, ready to help test components of NASA's Low Density S ... more
				New Views of Mars from Sediment Mineralogy The first detailed examination of clay mineralogy in its original setting on Mars is offering new insights on the planet's past habitability, research led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scien ... more		Opportunity Communications Remain Slow Due To Odyssey Issues Opportunity is up on 'Solander Point' at the rim of 'Endeavour Crater.' The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production. Mars Odyssey went into safe mode and ... more

Wake Up Yutu

Chang'e-3 satellite payload APXS obtained its first spectrum of lunar regolith

Chang'e 3 Lander and Rover From Above

China launches communications satellite for Bolivia

China's moon rover continues lunar survey after photographing lander

China's Yutu "naps", awakens and explores

CU-Boulder to fly antibiotic experiment on ants to space station

New Science Bound for Station on Orbital's Cygnus

Antares and Cygnus Launch Update

The Sounds of New Horizons

On the Path to Pluto, 5 AU and Closing

SwRI study finds that Pluto satellites' orbital ballet may hint of long-ago collisions

	NASA poised to launch Mars atmosphere probe What happened to the water on Mars? How did the Red Planet's atmosphere become so thin over time? NASA's MAVEN probe is scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to find out. ... more		Ancient fresh water lake on Mars could have sustained life Scientists have found evidence that there was once an ancient lake on Mars that may have been able to support life, in research published in the journal Science. A team of researchers from NASA's Ma ... more		First Rock Dating Experiment Performed on Mars Although researchers have determined the ages of rocks from other planetary bodies, the actual experiments-like analyzing meteorites and moon rocks-have always been done on Earth. Now, for the first ... more		The Tough Task of Finding Fossils While Wearing a Spacesuit Someday, human explorers might momentously discover fossils on Mars, proving that the Red Planet once supported extraterrestrial life. An interplanetary expedition of this sort will have overcome ma ... more

Dancing isn't enough: industry pushes for practical robots

AI gobbling up memory chips essential to gadget makers

From sci-fi to sidewalk: exoskeletons go mainstream

NASA Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help		SSTL selected for first private Mars mission		Mars One Selects Lockheed Martin to Study First Private Unmanned Mission to Mars		SwRI scientists publish first radiation measurements from the surface of Mars		Bid to colonize Mars wins high-profile backing
MRO Reveals A More Dynamic Red Planet		Mars One spaceflight project 'can succeed'		Opportunity ascending Solander Point at rim of Endeavour Crater		Mars lake may have been friendly to microbes: NASA		Rover results include first age and radiation measurements on Mars

One-way ticket to Mars: space colonists wanted!

Three NASA space instruments hit a science 'trifecta'

Martian Laser Surpasses 100,000 Zaps

Mangalyaan Reaches First Distance Milestone On Route To Mars

Quietly Cruising Through The Asteroid Belt

Controllers prepare for spacecraft's rendezvous with protoplanet Ceres

NASA's Dawn Fills out its Ceres Dance Card

Opportunity Rover Robotic Arm Within Reach of Rock Outcrop

MAVEN Performs First Trajectory Correction Maneuver

ExoMars program marks critical milestone for ESA and Russia

The State of Super Earths

India's spacecraft successfully begins journey to Mars

Deep Space Perils For Indian Spacecraft

Curiosity Resumes Science After Analysis of Voltage Issue

Sounding Rocket to Peek at Atmosphere of Venus

How Habitable Is Mars? A New View of the Viking Experiments

Winter Means Less Power for Solar Panels

Unusual greenhouse gases may have raised ancient Martian temperature

Research uncovers secrets of Mars' birth from unique meteorite

Billionaire eyes private Mars mission in 2017

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