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»» ESA Mars Express image: Impact Craters in Tyrrhena Terra
[Wednesday, August 1, 2007] The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express obtained images of the Tyrrhena Terra region on Mars.
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»» Caltech Summer Camp Helps Kids Envision City on Mars
[Wednesday, August 1, 2007] Summer camp usually involves making craft projects and singing around the campfire, but at the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, campers use their imaginations and knowledge to design a community on Mars.
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»» Spirit Sees Dustier Sky
[Thursday, August 2, 2007] As of Thursday, July 26, NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity are both enduring levels of reduced power supply. The rovers can survive at these levels, but NASA continues to sharply restrict their activities.
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»» Concern Increasing About Opportunity
[Thursday, August 2, 2007] Rover engineers are growing increasingly concerned about the temperature of vital electronics on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity while the rover stays nearly inactive due to a series of dust storms that has lasted for more than a month.
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»» Online Registration Now Open for $9,000 Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award
[Thursday, August 2, 2007] The X PRIZE Foundation announced the availability of online registration for a new education competition designed to interest students in space, science and technology.
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»» NASA Spacecraft Heads for Polar Region on Mars
[Saturday, August 4, 2007] NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off Saturday, aiming for a May 25, 2008, arrival at the Red Planet and a close-up examination of the surface of the northern polar region.
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»» NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Imagery Release 1 August 2007
[Monday, August 6, 2007] Onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the HiRISE camera offers unprecedented image quality, giving us a view of the Red Planet in a way never before seen. It’s the most powerful camera ever to leave Earth’s orbit.
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»» NASA'S Mars-Bound Phoenix Adjusts Course Successfully
[Friday, August 10, 2007] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander today accomplished the first and largest of six course corrections planned during the spacecraft's flight from Earth to Mars.
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»» 'Extreme analytical chemistry' will help unravel Mars' mysteries
[Saturday, August 18, 2007] Sam Kounaves spends his time unraveling fundamental questions in planetary science by applying "extreme analytical chemistry" to the harshest environments imaginable: Places like Death Valley, Antarctica and now Mars.
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»» NASA Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition Field Report (AMASE 2007): Arriving in Longyearbyen
[Sunday, August 19, 2007] I became more and more excited the closer I got to Longyearbyen, Svalbard. After a busy year working in the SAM Lab at NASA Goddard I am returning to the arctic as part of the Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition, otherwise known as AMASE 07.
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»» Student joins AMASE expedition in Svalbard
[Sunday, August 19, 2007] For two weeks, an international crew of scientists and engineers are field-testing instruments for future Mars missions. Thea Falkenberg, winner of a student contest to join the AMASE expedition, reports back on her experiences through a daily blog.
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»» Planetary Exploration Newsletter: NASA Science Mission Directorate Update - Alan Stern, Associate Administrator/SMD
[Wednesday, August 22, 2007] "... when I arrived at SMD in April, I came with a set of specific goals that apply across all four of SMD's science themes - astrophysics, planetary, heliophysics, and Earth science."
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»» Spirit Update: Dust from Martian Sky Accumulates on Solar Panels
[Wednesday, August 22, 2007] Even though the Martian sky above Gusev Crater continued to clear, solar power levels on NASA's Spirit rover remained fairly constant as dust settling from the atmosphere accumulated on top of the solar panels.
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»» Flares From The Far Side of the Sun May Affect Space Weather of inner Planets
[Thursday, August 23, 2007] Observations of solar flares by spacecraft at Mars, Venus and the Earth show that eruptions on the far side of the Sun may affect our "space weather" back on Earth.
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»» Exomars Exhibits Self-Control In Sampling Mars Terrain
[Thursday, August 23, 2007] Autonomous systems developed for ESA's ExoMars rover, which will allow it to analyse Martian terrain and identify the best point on rocks to drill for samples without need for human intervention.
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»» Calculating the Biomass of Martian Soil
[Thursday, August 23, 2007] A new interpretation of data from NASA's Viking landers indicates that 0.1% of the Martian soil tested could have a biological origin.
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»» NASA MEPAG Report from the 2013 Mars Science Orbiter (MSO) Second Science Analysis Group
[Sunday, August 26, 2007] "A scientifically bold orbital mission in 2013 can address profound and basic scientific gaps that remain in the era beyond MRO."
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»» Revision of the Mars Exploration Program vision of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) Goals Document
[Sunday, August 26, 2007] "In 2000, the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) wasasked by NASA to work with the science community to establish consensus priorities for the future scientific exploration of Mars. ."
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»» NASA Mars Exploration Rovers Resume Driving
[Sunday, August 26, 2007] After six weeks of hunkering down during raging dust storms that limited solar power, both of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have resumed driving.
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»» Brightening Skies Bolster Opportunity
[Sunday, August 26, 2007] Opportunity is healthy and remains perched near the rim of "Victoria Crater." The rover was on a low-power schedule that alternated between a 3-sol plan and a 4-sol plan.
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»» Spirit Tries to Coax Dust from Microscopic Imager
[Sunday, August 26, 2007] For the first time since arriving on Mars in 2004, Spirit attempted to remove dust from the microscopic imager in a "blobs away" campaign to help the rover recover from a series of dust storms.
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»» New images reveal threatening conditions that two rovers face in giant Martian dust storm
[Thursday, August 30, 2007] The mighty Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity continue to persevere in brutal conditions, as revealed in images of the sun they are sending home. The images show how opaque the Martian atmosphere has been in the face of a raging, two-month dust storm.
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»» HiRISE Camera Returns to View Dark Pit on Mars
[Thursday, August 30, 2007] HiRISE has confirmed that a dark pit seen on Mars in an earlier HiRISE image really is a vertical shaft that cuts through lava flow on the flank of the Arsia Mons volcano. Such pits form on similar volcanoes in Hawaii and are called "pit craters."
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»» NASA Invites Reporters for Lunar Mission Tests at 'Desert Rats'
[Thursday, August 30, 2007] News media are invited to spend a day with NASA's planetary rovers, robots and futuristic spacesuits as the agency tests hardware for missions to the moon. A media day for the event, known as Desert RATS, will be held Sept. 12.
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