[Tuesday, July 01, 2003] This Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera image shows a series of depressions made on a dust-mantled slope as a boulder rolled down it, sometime in the recent past. The full image picture covers an area only 810 meters (about 886 yards) across

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[Tuesday, July 01, 2003] The place I will live in for nearly a month was chosen for its similarities to Mars. Those who visit the place call it "Mars on Earth" - Devon Island, Haughton Crater.

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[Tuesday, July 01, 2003] Boeing has been named by the Department of Energy to lead in the creation of a next-generation power system for future Mars surface missions and the exploration of deep space.

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[Wednesday, July 02, 2003] ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft is progressing further every day on its journey to the Red Planet. In the weeks since its launch, engineers have started to thoroughly test the spacecraft and its equipment.

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[Sunday, July 06, 2003] The launch of the MER-B Mars Exploration Rover "Opportunity" has been postponed an additional 24 hours. The delay is due to the failure of a battery cell associated with a component of the launch vehicle's flight termination system.

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[Monday, July 07, 2003] We awoke this morning to some good news: weather conditions here and at Devon Island, plus the condition of our landing strip on Devon Island, were all within acceptable limits. As such we were going to get at least three flights in today.

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[Monday, July 07, 2003] This is the dusty time of year for Mars. The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team has been anticipating for months that late June through July 2003 will be a time of large dust storms and considerable haze.

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[Monday, July 07, 2003] After several delays the last couple of weeks due to problems with the Boeing Delta II the Mars Exploration Rover (MER-B) Opportunity successfully lifted off for Mars today at 11:18:15 p.m. EDT (0318:15 GMT).

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[Tuesday, July 08, 2003] On Friday 4 July, and Saturday 5 July 2003, engineers successfully carried out overnight tests on the Mars Express lander, Beagle 2.

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[Thursday, July 17, 2003] On the night of 3 July 2003, the Mars Express spacecraft was pointed backwards to obtain a view of the Earth-Moon system from a distance of 8 million km while on its way to Mars.

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[Thursday, July 17, 2003] The Mars-1 Rover arrived at the NASA Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) Base Camp at 10:30 PM CDT on 17 July 2003 after an overland traverse across Devon Island.

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[Friday, July 25, 2003] ESA is inviting European and Canadian industry to participate in its exciting ExoMars mission in order to provide an answer to this age-old question.

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[Friday, July 25, 2003] "Breathtaking" new maps of likely sites of water on Mars showcase their association with geologic features such as Vallis Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system.

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[Sunday, July 27, 2003] The Columbia Space Shuttle tragedy was unexpected, unforeseen, and unavoidable. But it has spawned a unique opportunity to lay out a positive new direction for the U.S. civil space program.

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[Monday, July 28, 2003] This picture shows retreating patches of frost on a field of large, dark sand dunes in the Noachis region of Mars. Large, windblown ripples of coarse sediment are also seen on some of the dunes.

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[Monday, July 28, 2003] The message these dunes provide: winds blow through this region from the lower right toward the upper left. The steep slip face slopes of these dunes, which point toward the upper left, indicate the wind direction.

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[Wednesday, July 30, 2003] NASA has prepared a draft protocol for the testing and evaluation of samples that may be returned from Mars by future missions in its Mars exploration program. Public comments are being solicited.

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