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»» White House Briefed On Potential For Mars Life
[Friday, August 1, 2008] The White House has been alerted by NASA about plans to make an announcement soon on major new Phoenix lander discoveries concerning the "potential for life" on Mars, scientists tell Aviation Week & Space Technology.
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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Data More Negative On Potential For Life
[Monday, August 4, 2008] NASA will announce today that new data from the Phoenix Mars lander indicate that it is looking less conclusive that soil analyzed by the lander's soil chemistry experiment is Earth-like and can support life.
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»» Martian Clays Tell Story of a Wet Past
[Friday, August 8, 2008] Layers of clay-rich rock have been found in Mars' Mawrth Vallis, a potential landing site for future rovers. This work suggests that abundant water was once present on Mars and that hydrothermal activity may have occurred.
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»» Bringing Martian Samples to Earth-- Preparations Outlined in Journal Astrobiology
[Tuesday, August 12, 2008] A critical component of NASA's Mars exploration program involves bringing planetary samples back to Earth for in-depth analysis, plans for which are detailed in the latest issue of Astrobiology.
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»» Soil Studies Continue at Phoenix Mars Lander Site
[Tuesday, August 12, 2008] Vibration of the screen above a laboratory oven on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Saturday, Aug. 9, succeeded in getting enough soil into the oven to begin analysis.
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»» Psychologists show new ways to deal with health challenges in space
[Friday, August 15, 2008] As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and then on to Mars, psychologists are exploring the challenges astronauts will face on missions that will be much longer and more demanding than previous space flights.
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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image of Martian Dust Particle
[Friday, August 15, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.
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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Camera Sees Morning Frost at the Landing Site
[Saturday, August 16, 2008] Water frost appears in an image the SSI took on Aug. 14, 2008, at 6 a.m. local Mars time on Sol 79, the 79th Martian day after landing. The frost begins to disappear shortly after 6 a.m. as the sun rises on the landing site.
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»» NASA Opportunity Mars Rover Update: Opportunity Fights Uphill Battle
[Monday, August 18, 2008] "Victoria Crater" continues to challenge Mars rover drivers as they try to find a location where Opportunity can do scientific studies of rocks near the "Cape Verde" cliff face.
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»» NASA Spirit Mars Rover Update: With Batteries Charged, Spirit is Ready for More
[Monday, August 18, 2008] Spirit has fully recovered from a recent rundown in battery power. Energy has improved to levels not seen since sol (Martian day) 1604 (July 7, 2008).
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»» Research Helps Scientists Better Understand Dust Devils on Mars and Earth
[Thursday, August 21, 2008] Since no grid of weather stations exists on Mars, scientists depend on computer models to study the climate. Balme hopes to make those models more accurate by using data from terrestrial dust devil observations as analogs for the Martian ones.
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»» NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site By Trenching
[Thursday, August 21, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure.
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»» Mid-depth Soil Collected For Lab Test On NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander
[Thursday, August 21, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer. The sample was delivered it to a laboratory oven on the spacecraft.
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»» Mars Express VMC: An ordinary camera in an extraordinary place!
[Friday, August 22, 2008] The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) is mounted on Mars Express, ESA's deep-space probe now orbiting the Red Planet. It originally provided simple, low-tech images of Beagle lander separation, and is now back in action as the 'Mars Webcam'.
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»» NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing Out Of Victoria Crater
[Wednesday, August 27, 2008] NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.
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»» NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground
[Friday, August 29, 2008] NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has climbed out of the large crater that it had been examining from the inside since last September.
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»» NASA Mars Lander Digs Deeper as Third Month Nears End
[Friday, August 29, 2008] The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug.
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»» Antarctic research helps shed light on climate change on Mars
[Friday, August 29, 2008] Researchers examining images of gullies on the flanks of craters on Mars say they formed in sites once occupied by glaciers. The features are eerily reminiscent of gullies formed in Antarctica's mars-like McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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»» NASA Phoenix Mission Conducting Extended Activities on Mars
[Friday, August 29, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, having completed its 90-day primary mission, is continuing its science collection activities. Science and engineering teams are looking forward to at least another month of Martian exploration.
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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Mission: Picking up Clues from the Discard Pile
[Friday, August 29, 2008] As NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander excavates trenches, it also builds piles with most of the material scooped from the holes. The piles, like this one called "Caterpillar," provide researchers some information about the soil.
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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Mission: Ice Cold Sunrise on Mars
[Friday, August 29, 2008] This red-filter image taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager, shows the sun rising on the morning of sol 90, Aug. 25, 2008, the last day of the Phoenix nominal mission.
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