[Friday, July 1, 2005] Spirit has had an extremely successful week. On June 24, 2005 (sol 524), the rover drove 26 meters (85 feet). The following two sols, Spirit performed remote sensing.

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[Saturday, July 2, 2005] Working closely with experts from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), award-winning designer James Moon has come up with a lightweight, compact eco-friendly vehicle for use in one of the Earth's most extreme environments.

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[Saturday, July 2, 2005] The Mars Program Office at JPL/NASA intends to sponsor a field test/demonstration for robotic drilling systems sometime in the period Dec. 2005 to Feb. 2006.

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[Saturday, July 2, 2005] The MARS Journal, a new online peer reviewed open access journal, is now open for submission of manuscripts.

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[Wednesday, July 6, 2005] Opportunity made its way back toward "Purgatory Dune" for a chance to explore its own tracks. During the drive the rover stopped along the way to study the soil at "North Dune."

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[Thursday, July 14, 2005] "These Martian Earth-like radiative habitable environments may be primary targets for future Martian astrobiological missions."

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[Friday, July 15, 2005] Logistical and research activities at the HMP Research Station are moving ahead smoothly. Pascal Lee, Project Lead, remains in Resolute Bay to coordinate key logistics and research payload forwarding for the 2005 field campaign.

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[Saturday, July 16, 2005] "I'm really sorry it's been so long since I've done an update! I try to do them at least weekly, but occasionally the workload just gets to be a little too much."

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[Sunday, July 17, 2005] Americans continue to show solid support for NASA's plans to explore, discover and understand our universe by returning the Space Shuttle to flight, completing the ISS, and sending robot probes and humans to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

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[Monday, July 18, 2005] NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), to be launched on August 10 aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, will be the focus of a news media opportunity at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 20.

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[Monday, July 18, 2005] Germany joined the Preparatory Phase of the European Space Exploration Program Aurora. It thus becomes the 12th country participating in the programme, which allows scientists and industrial companies from Germany to participate in the Aurora Program.

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[Tuesday, July 19, 2005] A futuristic design by Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton Architects has won the competition for the new British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Halley Research Station.

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[Tuesday, July 19, 2005] After an evening of poor weather we woke up today to much improved conditions. The winds have been light and the sun has made a rare appearance. The temperature at noon was a balmy 6 C (43 F).

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[Wednesday, July 20, 2005] Within the last few years, however, two simple chemicals intimately associated with life on Earth have been discovered on Mars. Large amounts of frozen water were discovered at the surface, and traces of methane appeared in the atmosphere.

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[Wednesday, July 20, 2005] "We were very fortunate to have flights available to put into camp on the day following our arrival in Resolute Bay, and we were able to carry enough equipment with us to be off to a flying start. It all worked like clockwork."

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[Wednesday, July 20, 2005] "Today was a perfect example of why we need to be prepared for anything when working in the high Arctic, an extreme environment even in the brief summer."

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[Thursday, July 21, 2005] Scientists have long thought that the Red Planet was once temperate enough for water to have existed on the surface, and for life to possibly have evolved. But a new study by Caltech and MIT scientists gives this idea the cold shoulder.

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[Thursday, July 21, 2005] The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and its launch vehicle are nearing final stages of preparation at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for a launch opportunity that begins Aug. 10.

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[Friday, July 22, 2005] The Astronaut Glove Challenge award will go to the team that can design and manufacture the best performing glove within competition parameters. The $250,000 purse will be awarded at a competition scheduled for November 2006.

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[Friday, July 22, 2005] "We've just had another one of our lovely "cleaning events", with gusts of wind sweeping dust off of Opportunity's solar arrays. So both rovers are now in very solid shape power-wise. It was a good week on Mars."

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[Monday, July 25, 2005] The overall goal is to obtain lessons learned for Supply Chain Management to remote environments and to test new technologies and procedures that will enhance the ability of humans and robots to jointly explore environments on Earth, Moon and Mars.

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[Monday, July 25, 2005] Over the coming decade, NASA should develop and implement new methods and requirements to detect and eliminate microorganisms on robotic spacecraft sent to Mars to prevent possible contamination of the planet.

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[Thursday, July 28, 2005] The crater is 35 kilometres wide and has a maximum depth of approximately 2 kilometres beneath the crater rim. The circular patch of bright material located at the centre of the crater is residual water ice.

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[Thursday, July 28, 2005] "Over the course of the next week the Hamilton Sundstrand team will test the suit in various scenarios including as part of traverse with the Mars-1 Humvee Rover. Tomorrow we'll have a photo report of the Hamilton Sundstrand space suit activity."

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[Friday, July 29, 2005] Today's activities centered around a traverse into Haughton Crater so that Dr. Jeff Jones could complete his sampling of unvisited locations looking to see if human associated microbes have altered the local microflora for a planetary protection study.

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[Sunday, July 31, 2005] The decision on what new launch vehicles NASA plans to use is rapidly coming into focus. In some ways these launchers will be new - yet they will also look very familiar using hardware and concepts that have long and well-established flight histories.

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