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Exploring 'Perseverance Valley' During Winter![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2017 Opportunity is continuing the winter exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. Winter is constraining the available energy, so the project has to rover hop (drive) from one energy-favorable "lily pad" to the next. (These lily pads are locations where the terrain is tilted sufficiently to the north to maximize the Sun's illumination on the rover's solar panels.) At these lily pad locations, Opportunity has been conducting an extensive stereo survey of the morph ... read more |
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![]() Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 21, 2017 River deposits exist across the surface of Mars and record a surface environment from over 3.5 billion years ago that was able to support liquid water at the surface. A region of Mars named Aeolis D ... more ![]() ![]() Beijing (AFP) Sept 20, 2017 China's programme to launch a mission to Mars in 2020 is "well underway", its top planner said Wednesday as the country moves forward with its ambitious space programme. ... more ![]() ![]() Miami (AFP) Sept 19, 2017 Six people have emerged from an isolated dome in Hawaii where they spent the past eight months on a mock Mars mission, living in close quarters, eating dried foods and trying to get along. ... more ![]() ![]() Sydney, Australia (The Conversation) Sep 19, 2017 As humans spread out across the Earth, the locations of new colonies were driven by the accessibility of resources: not only food and water, but also arable land, forests and minerals. Access ... more |
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![]() Paris (ESA) Sep 19, 2017 An impactor smashing into an ice-rich surface gave rise to the complex flow features around this ancient crater on Mars. Impacts of comets and asteroids have shaped the surfaces of rocky planets and ... more ![]() ![]() Bethesda, MD (SPX) Sep 13, 2017 Sending humans to Mars has been a dream of scientists and a large part of the population ever since Nicolaus Copernicus first postulated that it was a planet, about 500 years ago. Even before that f ... more ![]() ![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 14, 2017 NASA scientists have found evidence that Mars' crust is not as dense as previously thought, a clue that could help researchers better understand the Red Planet's interior structure and evolution. A ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 14, 2017 NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has begun the steep ascent of an iron-oxide-bearing ridge that's grabbed scientists' attention since before the car-sized rover's 2012 landing. "We're on the climb now, d ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Sep 12, 2017 In past decades, spacecraft have sent back huge amounts of complex data about Mars, providing a wealth of information about the planet. More than ever, the scientific community needs a way to sift t ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2017 Opportunity is continuing the winter exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. Winter is constraining the available energy, so the project has the rover doing " ... more |
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![]() ![]() Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability ![]() ![]() Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 05, 2017 Life on Mars may still be light years away - but it clearly hasn't stopped us from thinking ahead. Next year six space-suited and booted astronauts will head to the Dhofar desert in Oman in an attem ... more ![]() ![]() Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2017 Bowie wasn't lying about Ziggy's bandmates - there are spiders from Mars. Sort of. ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2017 Opportunity is exploring "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour crater as mission planners prepare to park the rover for a winter layover. Winter substainally constrains the energy ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint 'survival' whispers from one of ESA's Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for ... more |
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![]() Paris (ESA) Sep 21, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Researchers create first global map of water in moon's soil ![]() ![]() Call For Ideas For Research On The Deep Space Gateway ![]() ![]() Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is dry |
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![]() Beijing (AFP) Sept 20, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Chinese company eyes development of reusable launch vehicle ![]() ![]() Spacecraft passes docking test ![]() ![]() China, Russia to Have Smooth Space Cooperation, Says Expert |
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![]() Riga, Latvia (SPX) Sep 20, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Europe urged to reconsider pullout from 'Armageddon' asteroid mission ![]() ![]() Ancient meteorite impact triggered highest surface temperature in Earth's history ![]() ![]() Radar Reveals Two Moons Orbiting Asteroid Florence |
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![]() Washington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Hibernation Over, New Horizons Continues Kuiper Belt Cruise ![]() ![]() Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery ![]() ![]() New Horizons Files Flight Plan for 2019 Flyby |
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![]() Sacramento CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() NASA's $3.9 bn Cassini spacecraft makes death plunge into Saturn ![]() ![]() Cassini Spacecraft Demise Is Bittersweet for PSI's Hansen ![]() ![]() CU Boulder Scientists Ready for Cassini Mission to Saturn Grand Finale |
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![]() Canberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 21, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Dust devils contribute large amount of particulate matter to atmospheres of Earth, Mars ![]() ![]() Boeing to Design and Build Seven Medium Earth Orbit Satellites for SES ![]() ![]() Team gathers unprecedented data on atmosphere's organic chemistry |
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![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 19, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Crewed Missions Beyond LEO ![]() ![]() Tech dreams live or die on startup battlefields ![]() ![]() Diet tracker in space |
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![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 15, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() The return of the comet-like exoplanet ![]() ![]() Scientists propose new concept of terrestrial planet formation ![]() ![]() KFU astronomers discovered an exoplanet together with Turkish and Japanese colleagues |
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![]() London, UK (SPX) Sep 13, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() US Air Force Academy to Use VBS3 and VBS Fires for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Training ![]() ![]() Drones can almost see in the dark ![]() ![]() China touts military drone helicopter at exhibition |
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![]() Washington (UPI) Sep 11, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() NASA captures images of strong solar flares ![]() ![]() Space-inspired Star Storm to premiere next month ![]() ![]() NASA's Lunar mission captures solar eclipse as seen from the moon |
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![]() Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 19, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() ISRO to resume satellite launches by December ![]() ![]() Dragon Splashes Down in Pacific With NASA Science Experiments ![]() ![]() Rocket fever launches UB students to engineering competition in New Mexico |
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![]() Washington (UPI) Sep 15, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Keeping NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in the dark ![]() ![]() Exchanges of identity in deep space ![]() ![]() Accretion-powered pulsar reveals unique timing glitch |
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![]() Washington DC (SPX) Sep 19, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Granting weightless wishes ![]() ![]() MSU gravitational physicist receives NASA award to explore extreme gravity and the universe ![]() ![]() First look at gravitational dance that drives stellar formation |
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![]() Washington DC (UPI) Sep 18, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() The beam of invisibility ![]() ![]() Aussie quantum tech has its sights set on human biochemistry ![]() ![]() First neutron beam produced: A great milestone for CSNS |
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![]() Manchester UK (SPX) Sep 21, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Artificial 'skin' gives robotic hand a sense of touch ![]() ![]() Orbital ATK Begins Assembly of Industry's First Commercial In-Space Satellite Servicing System ![]() ![]() NASA awards SSL new funding for Dragonfly on-orbit assembly program |
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![]() Beijing (AFP) Sept 20, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Chinese company eyes development of reusable launch vehicle ![]() ![]() Spacecraft passes docking test ![]() ![]() China, Russia to Have Smooth Space Cooperation, Says Expert |
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