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Friday, 27 March 2009 10:30

Mars webcam back online

The 'webcam' aboard the Mars Express probe has been shut down for three months, but now it is back online.
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Thursday, 26 March 2009 19:34

Three-month Martian journey turns into five years

Two rovers landed on Mars in January 2004 for what was expected by NASA to be a three-month tour of the Martian landscape. It’s now 2009, five years later, and Spirit and Opportunity just keep going and going and going. We know eventually their journey will end, but not just yet!

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Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:15

Astronauts test themselves for space cooties

Two of the STS-119 astronauts onboard the International Space Station tested themselves for possible biological contamination before taking a spacewalk in what NASA calls the "first-ever test of planetary protection technology."
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Friday, 20 March 2009 03:45

Vote for favorite name of NASA Mars Science Lab

After nine favorite names were selected by grade school students for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, now it is your turn to vote for your favorite one, which will become the new name for  NASA's new robotic rover mission to planet Mars.

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Friday, 06 February 2009 23:21

Mercury, Mars formed from leftovers of Earth, Venus

According to a new theory (which some are calling 'radical') by U.S. astronomer Brad Hansen, the two larger inner planets of our Solar System (Earth and Venus) formed first and the leftover materials came together to form the two smaller inner planets (Mercury and Mars).
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Tuesday, 03 February 2009 04:48

Google, NASA add planet Mars to Google Earth 5.0

On Monday, February 2, 2009, NASA announced its collaboration with Google to bring a high-resolution, three-dimensional view of Mars. The Google Earth 5.0 will provide maps of the Red Planet so you can explore the planet just like NASA robots on its surface and NASA spacecraft orbiting above.

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Sunday, 01 February 2009 22:10

Elderly Spirit rover may have dementia on Mars

Beginning on January 24, 2009, NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory became worried when the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit began having problems recording its Martian activities onto its memory as it and its sister rover Opportunity continue to explore the planet's surface.

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Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:58

Five-year anniversary of Opportunity knocking on Martian door

On January 25, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover B, popularly known as Opportunity, landed successfully on the planet Mars. It continues to provide us valuable data on the Red Planet, now five years later.
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Friday, 16 January 2009 02:58

NASA confirms methane actively produced on Mars

On January 15, 2009, NASA announces an important discovery, the first of its kind: Methane is being actively produced in the atmosphere of the planet, which confirms that Mars is not dead but geologically or biologically active.

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Friday, 19 December 2008 23:06

Carbonates found on Mars, increases chance of past life

The NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found carbonate minerals on the planet Mars. Its discovery by U.S. and French scientists is now prompting planetary astronomers to rethink their theories that Mars once had a primarily global acidic environment (which is not very conducive to life).
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 09:12

Mars webcam goes dark

Mars has moved behind the Sun (from an Earthbound perspective), so the webcam aboard the Mars Express space probe has been shut down until the northern spring.
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Friday, 05 December 2008 01:58

Two-year delay for NASA's Mars mission

The launch of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has been delayed by two years to the northern autumn of 2011. As Scotty used to say, "you cannae change the laws of physics!"
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Friday, 21 November 2008 01:56

Huge buried glaciers of water ice found on Mars

NASA announced that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found what is being called "vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris." NASA scientists call it the largest amount of water ice on Mars other than at the poles.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 03:12

No TCP/IP for NASA's deep space Internet

It's been a decade in the making, but NASA has successfully tested a new deep-space communications network modelled on the Internet. Images have been transmitted to and from a spacecraft 20 million miles away.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 01:58

WALL-E and NASA are looking for Right Name for new Mars Rover

NASA has announced that it is looking for a name to call its new Mars rover, which should be launched toward Mars in 2009. The Walt Disney robot WALL-E is teaming up with NASA in this naming contest for U.S. students ranging in ages from five to 18 years old.

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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 03:41

Mars Phoenix Lander says good-bye

According to a Monday, November 10, 2008 NASA media release, the Phoenix Mars Lander has “ceased communications” but its mission team will continue to listen to see if Phoenix “phones home” from the planet Mars.
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Friday, 07 November 2008 21:16

'Star Trek' force field could help protect real astronauts in space

British, Portuguese, and Swedish physicists have come up with a strong magnetic shield that may be able to protect astronauts from dangerous space radiation as they make extended missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Better get Scotty to engineer the project!

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Saturday, 01 November 2008 19:39

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander may not arise again

The Martian winter is producing bitter cold and giant dust storms are cutting sunlight to its solar arrays. The deadly combination may be too much for the now-silent NASA Phoenix lander, which has extended its mission on the planet for two months longer than planned.

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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 00:45

It's snowing on Mars

The NASA Phoenix Mars Lander has identified snow falling from Martian clouds. A Phoenix scientist says, “Nothing like this view has ever been seen on Mars.”
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 08:01

NASA rover Opportunity moving to new digs on Mars

NASA announced on September 22, 2008, that its Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is moving to a larger home on the planet Mars—a crater that is over twenty times larger than its previous home inside Victoria Crater.

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