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»» Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving
[Saturday, May 12, 2012] Team members of the Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate a similar rover, Curiosity, currently flying to Mars for an August landing.
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»» NASA's Out of Date Search for Life on Mars
[Thursday, May 10, 2012] This is a mindset ripe with old thinking. Even without the budget cuts, the costs for a Mars sample return mission have steadily increased over the decades that NASA has planned for it.
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»» NASA MRO Detects Large Changes in Martian Sand Dunes
[Wednesday, May 9, 2012] NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth.
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»» WSU air-quality researcher to lead field studies in support of NASA Mars mission
[Wednesday, May 9, 2012] The proposed mission is intended to help determine whether periodic plumes of methane gas previously detected within the Martian atmosphere are the product of biological or other activity, such as volcanism.
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»» Looking at Water Deposits in Martian Geology
[Tuesday, May 8, 2012] A report in the May 4 edition of the journal Science details discoveries Opportunity made in its first four months at the rim of Endeavour Crater, including key findings reported at a geophysics conference in late 2011.
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»» Signs of Flowing Water on Ancient Mars
[Friday, May 4, 2012] ESA's Mars Express has returned images of a region on the Red Planet that appears to have been sculpted in part by flowing liquid. This again adds to the growing evidence that Mars had large volumes of water on its surface in the distant past.
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»» ASU Graduate Student Discovers New Form of Lava Flow on Mars
[Thursday, May 3, 2012] High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells.
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»» 100 Days and Counting to NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Landing
[Tuesday, May 1, 2012] At 10:31 p.m. PDT on April 27 NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, carrying the one-ton Curiosity rover, was within 100 days from its appointment with the Martian surface.
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»» First Mars Express Gravity Results Plot Volcanic History
[Thursday, April 26, 2012] Mars Express gravity mapping data are providing insights into what lies beneath the Mars' largest volcanoes. The results show that the lava grew denser over time and that the thickness of the planet's rigid outer layers varies across the Tharsis region.
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»» WSU astrobiologist proposes fleet of probes to seek life on Mars
[Tuesday, April 24, 2012] "We really want to address the big questions on Mars and not fiddle around," says Dirk Schulze-Makuch, whose earlier proposals have included an economical one-way trip to the red planet.
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»» NASA MRO Image of Mars: Sedimentary Deposits on the Floor of Ritchey Crater
[Friday, April 20, 2012] Ritchey Crater exposes some of the most colorful rock outcrops on Mars in its central peak. This image reveals comparable diversity in some of the layered sediments and jumbled deposits (megabreccia) on the crater floor.
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»» Life After Mars
[Wednesday, April 18, 2012] Seventeen months of isolation on a simulated trip to Mars came to an end five months ago. Their mission was over and they breathed fresh air again. What have ESA 'marsonauts' Diego Urbina and Romain Charles been doing since they left their 'spacecraft'?
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»» Preparing MAVEN for Mars
[Wednesday, April 18, 2012] MAVEN's hydrazine propellant tank is shown prior to it being installed in the core structure of the MAVEN spacecraft at a Lockheed Martin clean room near Denver in this image taken in April 2012.
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»» NASA Needs an Astrobiology Fact Checker
[Monday, April 16, 2012] One would think that the agency would at least exercise a little more caution in putting things on its official websites that either jump to conclusions, or prompt the reader to do so.
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»» NASA: To Boldly Go or To Loudly Whine?
[Monday, April 16, 2012] When everything goes right, NASA loves to bask in the glowing PR and does not deter people from lofty comparisons to Star Trek. But when something goes wrong (or might go wrong) they like to lower expectations and say "Rocket science is hard".
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»» NASA's Mars Program Planning Group: Same Old Answers or Open To New Ideas?
[Monday, April 16, 2012] At last week's media telecon NASA representatives stressed that this review process and this meeting were going to be "transparent and open" and that people from outside NASA would be encouraged to attend.
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»» NASA MRO Image of Mars: A Wild Assortment of Jumbled Rocks
[Sunday, April 15, 2012] The enhanced-color subimage shows part of the ejecta from an impact crater. The impact broke up already diverse rocks types and mixed them together to create this wild jumble of colors, each representing a different type of rock.
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»» NASA MRO Image of Mars: Cratered Dune Forms
[Friday, April 13, 2012] Known since at least 2003, this is a wonderful case of aeolian sandstone that (a) preserves its original sand dune bedform shapes and (b) lies unconformably over a previously-eroded surface of layered sedimentary rock.
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»» NASA Hosts Teleconference on Status of New Mars Program Plans
[Friday, April 13, 2012] NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 13, to provide an update about the framework and schedule of the newly formed Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG).
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»» NASA MRO Image of Mars: Summer is on Its Way
[Thursday, April 12, 2012] These dark sand dunes in the North polar region, basking in the sunshine of late spring, have shed most of their seasonal layer of winter ice.
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»» The pit-chains of Mars - a possible place for life?
[Tuesday, April 10, 2012] The latest images released from ESA's Mars Express reveal a series of 'pit-chains' on the flanks of one of the largest volcanoes in the Solar System. Depending on their origin, they might be tempting targets in the search for microbial life on Mars.
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