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| January 22, 2014 |
 Oppy Encounters A Surprise At Solander Point Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 21, 2014 - Opportunity is up on 'Solander Point' at the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production. Opportunity is positioned on the edge of an exposed outcrop where orbital observations suggest the possible presence of small amounts of clay minerals. The rover has been finishing up analysis of the 'Cape Darby' area before moving o ... more |  |
Mysterious stone 'rawled up' to Mars Rover Opportunity Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 21, 2014 - A strange black and white stone has appeared out of nowhere near the Opportunity Mars Rover, which has not moved for more than a month already. The "guest" was noticed in the photos made by the Mars Rover by Vitaliy Egorov, a famous Russian "Martianologist blogger". (PHOTO) The Mars Rover Opportunity has been working on Mars for almost 10 years now - since January 24, 2004. At present, the ... more |  |
Mystery Mars rock reveals unexpected chemical composition Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 21, 2014 - The rock that suddenly appeared next to the NASA's Opportunity rover in the beginning of January turns out to have an irregular chemical composition for Mars: it has too much sulfur, magnesium and manganese, scientists say. In particular, the rock has twice as much manganese as anything previously analyzed on Mars. "Mars keeps throwing new stuff at us," said Mars Exploration rover le ... more |  |
Dutch researcher says Earth food plants able to grow on Mars The Hague (XNA) Jan 21, 2014 - The cultivation of various plant species, also food plants, is possible on soil of planet Mars, ecologist Wieger Wamelink of the Dutch research institute Alterra of Wageningen University told Xinhua recently. Researchers investigated whether it is possible to grow different types of plants in the soil of Mars and on the moon. They did an experiment with 14 plant species on artificial Marti ... more |  |
Lichen on Mars Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2014 - Humans cannot hope to survive life on Mars without plenty of protection from the surface radiation, freezing night temperatures and dust storms on the red planet. So they could be excused for marveling at humble Antarctic lichen that has shown itself capable of going beyond survival and adapting to life in simulated Martian conditions. The mere feat of surviving temperatures as low as -51 ... more |  |
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Megafloods: What They Leave Behind Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2014 - South-central Idaho and the surface of Mars have an interesting geological feature in common: amphitheater-headed canyons. These U-shaped canyons with tall vertical headwalls are found near the Snake River in Idaho as well as on the surface of Mars, according to photographs taken by satellites. Various explanations for how these canyons formed have been offered-some for Mars, some for Idah ... more |  |
A Decade in the Dust Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2014 - NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, were launched from Earth in 2003. The two rovers were designed as robotic geologists, and were to spend 90 days roaming the surface of the red planet and studying the history of liquid water on Mars. Spirit was the first of the two rovers to launch and land on Mars. Spirit left Earth on June 10, 2003, and touched down in Gusev Cr ... more |  |
An Engineer With His Sights on Mars Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 19, 2014 - Born and raised in South Vietnam, Phuc Nguyen came to Goddard as an intern and is now an electronics engineer whose work is soon going to Mars. b>What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard's mission? br> /b> As an electronics engineer, I design electronic components for subsystems to be used on spaceflight instruments ... more |  |
Ten-Years Roving About On Mars Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2014 - Opportunity landed on Mars on Jan. 24, 2004 PST (Jan. 25, 2004 UTC) on what was to be a three-month mission, but instead the rover has lived beyond its prime mission and roved the planet for nearly 10 years. Mission highlights, including a gallery of selected images from both rovers is at http://mars.nasa.gov/mer10/ . Opportunity is currently at 'Solander Point' at the rim of Endeavo ... more |  |
Mars Orbiter Images Rover and Tracks in Gale Crater Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2014 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and its recent tracks from driving in Gale Crater appear in an image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Dec. 11, 2013. The tracks show where the rover has zigzagged around obstacles on its route toward the lower slopes of Mount Sharp, its next major destination. HiRISE first imaged th ... more |  |
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Who Wants to Go to Mars - One Way? Bethesda MD (SPX) Jan 07, 2014 - The maverick startup company, Mars One, has selected over 1,000 would be and hopeful emigrants who have applied for a one-way trip to Mars. The pool of applicants included over 200,000 people. Several questions immediately come to mind. Why would anyone voluntarily apply for a one-way trip to Mars, let alone to anyplace? How is it possible to establish a permanent settlement on another pla ... more |  |
 U of Maryland undergraduates discover rare eclipsing double asteroid College Park MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - Students in a University of Maryland undergraduate astronomy class have made a rare discovery that wowed professional astronomers: a previously unstudied asteroid is actually a pair of asteroids that orbit and regularly eclipse one another. Fewer than 100 asteroids of this type have been identified in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, said Melissa Hayes-Gehrke, who teaches t ... more |  |
One-way trip to Mars? Sign me up, says Frenchwoman Paris (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - A comfortable, middle-class Parisian life may be the envy of many people, but Florence Porcel would give it all up to be among the first Earthlings to settle on Mars - even with no option of return. "I have always felt a bit cramped on Earth," the self-confessed space junkie told AFP, delighted to be shortlisted with some 1,000 other aspiring voyagers for Mars One - a private project to co ... more |  |
More than 1,000 chosen for one-way Mars reality-TV mission The Hague (AFP) Jan 02, 2014 - More than 1,000 candidates - from 200,000 hopefuls - have been chosen to train for a private Mars colonisation mission to be partly funded by a reality-TV show following their training and subsequent steps, organisers said Thursday. They are to be whittled down to just 24, who will be sent over six launches starting in 2024, according to Mars One, the Dutch-based non-profit group behind th ... more |  |
Potential Martians: Mars One selects 1,058 hopefuls among 200,000 applicants Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 01, 2014 - The Mars One project has announced the selection of 1,058 hopefuls from over 200,000 applicants to become potential "human ambassadors" on the Red Planet. Eventually, no more than 40 people will be selected to go Mars to never return. "We're extremely appreciative and impressed with the sheer number of people who submitted their applications," Mars One Co-Founder and CEO Bas Lansdorp said, ... more |  |
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Decade-Old Rover Adventure Continues on Mars and Earth Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 06, 2014 - Eighth graders didn't have Facebook or Twitter to share news back then, in January 2004. Bekah Sosland, 14 at the time, learned about a NASA rover landing on Mars when the bouncing-ball video on the next morning's Channel One news in her Fredericksburg, Texas, classroom caught her eye. "I wasn't particularly interested in space at the time," she recalled last week inside the spacecraft ope ... more | |
Clues from Orbit Aiding Exploration Of Opportunity Rover Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 06, 2014 - The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for energy production. Opportunity is positioned on the edge of an exposed outcrop where orbital observations suggest the possible presence of small amounts of clay minerals. The rover's activities have been relatively uncomplicated over the holiday period. On Sol 3521 (Dec. 19, 2013), the robotic arm was used to collect a Microscopic Imag ... more |  |
'Mars One' will reveal if there is life outside Earth Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 31, 2013 - Mars One is a non-profit organization that plans to establish a permanent human colony on Mars by 2025. The private spaceflight project is led by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp, who announced plans for the Mars One mission in May 2012, who revealed the details of the mission in an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia. b>Mr. Lansdorp, how did the idea of Mars One project come to y ... more |  |
Mars One mission: big work ahead Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 31, 2013 - Around 200,000 people have applied for a one-way mission to Mars, though it's still pretty unclear if and when the ambitious project to colonize the "red planet" is going to take place. Some believe that it may happen in the 2020s. Determined to forge ahead with its plans whatever the financial or technical challenges, the company behind the Mars One project first intends to send an unmann ... more | |
Curious Results from Mars Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2013 - NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on Mars with dramatic style in August, 2012. Now that the rover has spent more than a year exploring the martian surface, scientific data from the mission is starting to make its way into journals and popular news here on Earth. In fact, there is so much data coming back from the rover that it is sometimes hard to understand what all of the different fin ... more |  |
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