New Viewing Technique Bolsters Case For Life On Mars
Houston, Texas (SPX) Feb 8, 2006
New examinations of a Martian meteorite found nearly a century ago have strengthened the possibility that the red planet once harbored life.
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Making 3D Images Of Fossils Will Have Applications Beyond Earth
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and colleagues have produced 3-D images of ancient fossils - 650 million to 850 million years old - preserved in rocks, an achievement that has never been done before.
Spirit Makes It Four Miles At Home Plate
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2006
Over the Super Bowl weekend, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission controllers wrapped up all their work on a formation called Upper Overgaard. "It was a struggle, but everything's done, it's all in focus, and we're ready to move on," said chief scientists Steve Squyres. "With everything we wanted at Upper Overgaard in the can, we're now ready to move on to Roosevelt. Commands have been uplinked, and we'll see what we see next."
Hardened Lava Meets Wind on Mars
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 6, 2006
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its microscopic imager to capture this jagged mini-landscape on a rock mission scientists have called "GongGong." Measuring only 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) across, its surface records two of the most important and violent forces in the history of Mars - volcanoes and wind.
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Spirit Completes Fourth Mile On Mars
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2006
Spirit is healthy and continues to make progress toward "Home Plate" after driving more than 150 meters (492 feet), taking images, making atmospheric observations, and analyzing geology.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Is On The Approach
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2006
NASA's next martian orbiter has gotten one step closer to the red planet with the transition from cruise phase to approach phase!
Mozart On Mars - Sol 715-721
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 02, 2006
Opportunity is healthy and is continuing the characterization of an outcrop called "Olympia." The rover is on top of a feature called "Overgaard." The plan is to complete a mosaic with the microscopic imager, then drive toward a feature called "Roosevelt" and examine it with tools on the robotic arm.
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THOR MarsMission To Seek Underground Water
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 02, 2006
A proposed new robotic mission to Mars plans to make the first exploration of subsurface water ice in a potentially habitable zone.
Alcatel Alenia Space Starts The Exomars Mission Design
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 01, 2006
In the frame of a contract signed with the European Space Agency (ESA), Alcatel Alenia Space has started the ExoMars mission design. The ExoMars mission aims at sending a lander rover to Mars in order to find traces of past or present life.
Inside Rocks, Implications For Finding Life On Mars
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2006
UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and colleagues have produced 3-D images of ancient fossils - 650 million to 850 million years old - preserved in rocks, an achievement that has never been done before.
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Opportunity Takes Microscopic Images, Collaborates With Mars Express
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2006
Opportunity remains healthy following another busy week. The main activity last week was taking microscopic images of a feature nicknamed "Lower Overgaard." The science team identified individual, high-priority targets of interest, nicknamed "Scotch," "Bourbon," and "Branchwater."
Spirit Nears Home Plate
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2006
Spirit continues to make progress toward "Home Plate," a conspicuous circular feature scientists hope to investigate before the Martian winter, in search of layered rock outcrops that may provide additional information about the geology of the "Columbia Hills."
Celebrating Two Years Of Mars Express Discoveries
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 27, 2006
Mars Express, the spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency into a near Martian orbit, will have been in business for two years in January 2006. This project - the successor to Russia's Mars-96 - has been a major achievement of European and Russian planetary science.
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