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NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends To Level Ground
NASA's Mars Exploration
Rover Opportunity has
climbed out of the large
crater that it had been
examining from the inside
since last September. ... > full story
Antarctic Research Helps Shed Light On Climate Change On Mars
Eroded gullies on the flanks
of Martian craters may have
been formed by snowmelt as
recently as a few hundred
thousand years ago and in
sites once occupied by
... > full story
NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing Out Of Victoria Crater
NASA's Mars Exploration
rover Opportunity is heading
back out to the Red Planet's
surrounding plains nearly a
year after descending into a
large Martian crater to
... > full story
Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image Of Martian Dust Particle
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander
has taken the first-ever
image of a single particle
of Mars' ubiquitous dust,
using its atomic force
microscope. The particle --
... > full story
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Martian Life Or Not? NASA's Phoenix Team Analyzes Results
August 6, 2008 — Describing the latest findings from the Red Planet as "neither good nor bad for life," Phoenix Mars mission scientists spoke on research in progress concerning an ongoing investigation of perchlorate ... > full story -
NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended
August 2, 2008 — Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by ... > full story -
Mars Express Acquires Sharpest Images Of Martian Moon Phobos
August 1, 2008 — Mars Express closed in on the intriguing martian moon Phobos at 6:49 CEST on July 23, flying past at 3 km/s, only 93 km from the moon. The ESA spacecraft's fly-bys of the moon have returned its most ... > full story -
3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander
July 22, 2008 — NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. The images in the new 3-D Gallery combine views from the left and right "eyes" of the lander's ... > full story -
Mars Sample Return: Bridging Robotic And Human Exploration
July 22, 2008 — The first robotic mission to return samples to Earth from Mars took a further step toward realization with the recent publication of a mission design report by the iMARS Working Group. The report, ... > full story -
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp
July 21, 2008 — The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander June 18 to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ... > full story -
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander To Begin Rasping Frozen Layer
July 16, 2008 — A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ... > full story -
Ancient Mars Had Widespread Water, Potential To Support Life
July 16, 2008 — Mars once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life, according to two new studies. Vast regions of the ancient highlands of ... > full story -
Sample-Collection Tests By NASA's Phoenix Lander Continue
July 9, 2008 — NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer ... > full story -
Phoenix Scrapes To Icy Soil In Wonderland
June 29, 2008 — NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single ... > full story
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