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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 04:27
NASA to go to Mars with MAVEN robotic spacecraft
NASA announced on September 15, 2008, that it will send the unmanned Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft to find out why the planet lost most of its atmosphere billions of years ago.
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Saturday, 30 August 2008 18:56
Mercury, Venus, and Mars team up in southwestern sky
In September 2008, the three planets of Mercury, Venus, and Mars will be visible low in the southwestern sky just after sunset. Each will be viewable, especially with the use of binoculars.
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 21:01
NASA's Opportunity takes to the open road on Mars
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover (MER) “Opportunity” is rolling out of Victoria Crater after a successful year-long investigation of the Martian hole. It will now target the cobbles found on the Martian plain Meridiani Planum.
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 20:33
Smallest ever space image taken by Phoenix Mars Lander
NASA announced on August 15, 2008 that its Phoenix Mars Lander has imaged a single particle of Martian dust using its atomic force microscope at a “… higher magnification than anything ever seen from another world.”
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 20:18
Mars may be more Mars-like than Earth-like after corrosive chemical found
With intelligent Earthlings bubbling about the possibility of life on the planet Mars, the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander is now suggesting that Martian soil may contain perchlorate, a chemically reactive salt, and one less conducive to the presence of life on the planet Mars.
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Friday, 01 August 2008 02:15
NASA confirms water on Mars by Phoenix Mars Lander
NASA just released, on Thursday, July 31, 2008, the announcement that the Phoenix Mars Lander has identified water in a soil sample on the surface of Mars. A NASA scientist with the Mars exploratory mission exclaims, "We have water!"
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 04:08
Mars Express sends 'sharpest ever' photos of Phobos
The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe has transmitted the sharpest and most detailed images of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons.
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 19:48
Evidence of ancient lakes, rivers found in clay Martian soil
The NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has provided new data to scientists that show a host of “wet environments” existed billions of years ago on Mars. Scientists describe the amount of ancient Martian water as “pervasive and long-lasting.”
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Sunday, 29 June 2008 21:15
Mars, Saturn, Regulus put on evening show in July skies
During the first ten days of July 2008, the two planets Mars and Saturn and the bright star Regulus will be seen low in the western sky after dusk and into the evening, less than one-third the way up from the horizon.
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Friday, 27 June 2008 06:44
Life can exist on Mars
According to NASA scientists with the Phoenix Mars Landers, Martian soil could support life--based on initial analysis from the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory.
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 18:52
Mars once rained water, according to California study
According to research led by University of California--Berkeley geoscientists, the atmosphere of ancient Mars once held enough liquid water for a light drizzle or dew to fall onto the surface of the planet.
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 10:49
Solar system's largest crater discovered by NASA
The giant northern basin on Mars is the largest impact crater in the solar system, according to US scientists.
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Monday, 23 June 2008 22:08
NASA: There Is ice on Mars!
On June 20, 2008, NASA announces that water ice has been discovered near the landing site of the Phoenix Mars Lander on the planet Mars.
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Monday, 23 June 2008 00:14
Will we also colonize Earth microbes on Mars?
According to a New Scientist article, NASA researchers found one hundred species of terrestrial bacteria in the assembly room of the Phoenix Mars Lander.
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Friday, 20 June 2008 18:49
NASA scientists convinced Mars has ice!
The Phoenix Mars Lander photographed tiny pieces of bright, white material inside a dug out trench, and four days later they disappeared. Scientists say salt can’t evaporate but ice can when exposed to Martian atmosphere, making for great evidence for finding water on Mars.
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 18:26
Phoenix Lander digging with stressed out memory
NASA mission managers had some problems on Tuesday, June 17, 2008, with the Lander’s non-volatile flash memory, had it take the day off on Wednesday, and are telling it to do activities on Thursday that doesn't require its memory.
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Monday, 16 June 2008 22:30
Videos from Mars Lander on iTunes
Video clips of the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft are viewable on iTunes U.
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Monday, 16 June 2008 19:28
Microscope studies Mars soil up close and personal
The Phoenix Mars Lander is equipped with an Optical Microscope that is showing NASA scientists detailed images of soil particles, with sizes down to one-tenth the diameter of a human hair. Let's be clear, though, no human hairs have been found on Mars.
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 18:50
7 is lucky number for Phoenix Mars Lander
After six failures, the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander has finally succeeded in getting dirt into its “not-so-easy” bake oven. Phoenix scientists dance the (Martian) night away!
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Monday, 09 June 2008 22:46
Phoenix Lander shakes to loosen clumpy soil
The robotic arm on the Phoenix Mars Lander dropped some Martian soil into an analyzer on Friday, June 6, 2008. The soil was too clumpy, causing it not to fall into the oven. So, mission managers have sent a “shaking” command to the Lander to see if the motion will loosen up the clumpy soil.
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