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»» Mars: Time for a New Chronology?
[Wednesday, January 3, 2007] By counting craters, scientists have broken the geologic history of Mars into three eras: Noachian, Hesperian, and the present-day Amazonian. Each era is named for the location where the characteristic terrain was first identified.
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»» Spirit Status 2 January 2007
[Wednesday, January 3, 2007] A sudden dust storm cut short Spirit's investigation of a volcanic rock and kicked enough dust into the Martian atmosphere to drive solar power levels to an all-time low.
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»» Opportunity Status 2 January 2007
[Wednesday, January 3, 2007] During the holiday break on Earth, Opportunity completed a campaign of scientific study of a rock target called "Rio De Janeiro" before driving away on Sol 1039 (Dec. 26, 2006).
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»» Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: January 1-5, 2007
[Friday, January 5, 2007] NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) was developed by Arizona State University, Tempe.
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»» New Analysis of Viking Mission Results Indicates Presence of Life on Mars
[Monday, January 8, 2007] We may already have 'met' Martian organisms, according to a paper presented Sunday (Jan. 7) at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle.
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»» NASA Selects Proposals for Future Mars Missions and Studies
[Monday, January 8, 2007] On Monday, NASA selected for concept study development two proposals for future robotic missions to Mars. These missions would increase understanding of Mars' atmosphere, climate and potential habitability in greater detail than ever before.
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»» Live Blog From NASA Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) Meeting
[Tuesday, January 9, 2007] The Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) is meeting today and tomorrow. Keith Cowing will be live blogging on NASA Watch 
»» NASA Decides That A Software Error Doomed The Mars Global Surveyor Spacecraft
[Wednesday, January 10, 2007] Yesterday, NASA's John McNamee, Mars Exploration Program addressed the issue of the recent failure of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft. Apparently, incorrect software doomed the spacecraft.
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»» NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Images Mars Pathfinder Site
[Thursday, January 11, 2007] Pathfinder landed on Mars on July 4, 1997 and continued operating until September 27 of that year. The landing site is on an ancient flood plain of the Ares and Tiu outflow channels.
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»» Opportunity Status 5 January 2007
[Friday, January 12, 2007] Opportunity continued scientific studies of a rock called "Santa Catarina" on the rim of "Victoria Crater." Scientists suspect that Santa Catarina may be a meteorite or a rock blasted out from beneath the surface of Victoria.
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»» Spirit Status 5 January 2007
[Friday, January 12, 2007] The dust storm season has apparently arrived at Gusev, causing delays in Spirit's fourth Earth year of exploring Mars. Spirit has kept an eye on the sky, measuring atmospheric dust that could prevent sunlight from reaching the rover's solar panels.
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»» Spirit Status 12 January 2007
[Monday, January 15, 2007] Spirit spent much of the past week studying a layered rock exposure known as "Montalva." During the study, the rover used the brush on the rock abrasion tool, the microscopic imager, the alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer, and the Moessbauer spectrometer.
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»» Opportunity Status 12 January 2007
[Monday, January 15, 2007] On the morning of Opportunity's 1,048th sol, or Martian day, the rover entered auto mode, meaning that, in order to protect itself from a sequencing error, the rover cancelled all scheduled activities.
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»» Opportunity Status 19 January 2007
[Sunday, January 21, 2007] Opportunity continues to make progress in acquiring long-baseline stereo images of "Victoria Crater." To do this, the rover moves laterally from one point to another between taking images with the left and right eyes of the panoramic camera.
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»» NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Panorama from 'Cape Verde'
[Sunday, January 21, 2007] NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this vista of "Victoria Crater" from the viewpoint of "Cape Verde," one of the promontories that are part of the scalloped rim of the crater.
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»» NASA Mars Exploration Rovers Get New Driving Capability (Animation)
[Sunday, January 21, 2007] Until recently, NASA's two Mars rovers could figure only one or two steps ahead in planning a path and driving on their own. New software uploaded to the rovers onboard computers now enables them to look ahead and plan a path.
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»» NASA Mars Exploration Rovers Get New Driving Capability (Site of Test)
[Sunday, January 21, 2007] Until recently, NASA's two Mars rovers could figure only one or two steps ahead in planning a path and driving on their own. New software uploaded to the rovers onboard computers now enables them to look ahead and plan a path.
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»» It just carries on working: The German HRSC onboard Mars Express now in its third year
[Monday, January 22, 2007] After more than 3800 orbits of Mars, the camera has imaged an area larger than North and South America with a resolution of between ten and twenty metres per pixel, in colour and in 3D.
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»» MARS Journal open for submissions
[Monday, January 22, 2007] The MARS Journal, a new online peer reviewed open access journal, is now open for submission of manuscripts. The MARS Journal will publish scholarly papers in three general categories.
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»» Satellite View of Opportunity's Journey around Victoria Crater
[Monday, January 29, 2007] To identify various alcoves and cliffs along the way, science team members are using names of places visited by the 16th-century Earth explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew aboard the ship Victoria, who proved the Earth is round.
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