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»» Phoenix Scrapes 'Almost Perfect' Icy Soil for Analysis
[Tuesday, July 1, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander enlarged the "Snow White" trench and scraped up little piles of icy soil on Saturday, June 28, the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Scientists say that the scrapings are ideal for the lander's analytical instruments.
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»» Mars Sample Return: the next step in exploring the Red Planet
[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] ESA and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) will be co-hosting, in cooperation with NASA and the International Mars Exploration Working Group (IMEWG), an International Conference on 9 and 10 July 2008.
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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Lander to Bake Ice-Rich Soil Next Week
[Friday, July 4, 2008] The next soil sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander"s Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) will be ice-rich.
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»» HMP Research Station Status Report for July 9, 2008
[Wednesday, July 9, 2008] A week after the initial Mars Institute advanced team arrived to setup the research station for this years field season operations are running smoothly. The weather so far has been great and the first researchers are conducting their work.
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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Lander Delivers Soil-Chemistry Sample
[Wednesday, July 9, 2008] Phoenix Mars Lander used its robotic arm to deliver a second sample of soil for analysis by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory, data received from Phoenix on Sunday night confirmed.
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»» NASA's Orbiting HiRISE Camera Saw Phoenix Heat Shield in Freefall
[Wednesday, July 9, 2008] Scientists running HiRISE, on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have processed more details in an amazing image their camera captured as the Phoenix spacecraft descended through Mars' atmosphere during its landing on May 25, 2008.
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»» Unlocking Martian Rocks
[Thursday, July 10, 2008] Signs of life on Mars may be hiding under its rocks, or perhaps hiding inside those rocks. A new study offers a simplified technique for detecting biological and pre-biotic molecules that become trapped inside minerals.
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»» Sample-Collection Tests by NASA Mars Phoenix Lander Continue
[Thursday, July 10, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer, or TEGA.
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»» NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Uses Soil Probe and Swiss Scope
[Saturday, July 12, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has touched Martian soil with a fork-like probe for the first time and begun using a microscope that examines shapes of tiny particles by touching them.
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»» NASA Mars Rover Spirit: Biding Time sol 1594-1600, June 27-July 03, 2008
[Saturday, July 12, 2008] Spirit continues to ride out the winter by doing minimal activities to conserve power. The rover conducts very light science activities and relays data to NASA's Odyssey orbiter for transmission to Earth. The rest of the time, Spirit mostly sleeps.
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»» NASA Mars Opportunity: Photos of Scenic View - sol 1574-1580, June 28-July 04, 2008
[Saturday, July 12, 2008] Opportunity has completed work on the stand-off portion of the full-color panorama of the layered cliff known as "Cape Verde."
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»» Review of NASA's Human Research Program : A Letter Report
[Saturday, July 12, 2008] Planning for long-duration space flights requires consideration of complex disease prevention, behavioral health, and clinical treatment issues issues resulting from the hazards of the space environment and from limitations to in-mission medical care.
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»» HMP Research Station Status Report for July 13, 2008
[Monday, July 14, 2008] New HMP participants flew to Devon Island today. Participants include Katsak Manik and James Hunter, both from Resolute, who will be helping with many tasks at base camp, Nadeem Ghafoor of MDA Space Missions, and Elaine Walker, EPO, Mars Institute.
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»» Space Agencies Continue Talks on Global Exploration Strategy
[Tuesday, July 15, 2008] Representatives of 11 space agencies from around the world gathered in Montreal July 10 - 12 to continue the coordination of programs to extend human and robotic presence throughout the solar system.
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»» NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Extending Trench
[Tuesday, July 15, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens.
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»» NASA MRO Image: Phoenix Lander and Hardware
[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] As the Phoenix Lander investigates the Martian surface, HiRISE continues to image it and its surroundings. This scene is oriented with north located approximately down. Illumination is from the upper right.
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»» Mars Express to rendezvous with Martian moon Phobos
[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] Scientists and engineers are preparing ESA's Mars Express for a pair of close fly-bys of the Martian moon Phobos. Passing within 100 km of the surface, Mars Express will conduct some of the most detailed investigations of the moon to date.
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»» New Findings Show Diverse, Wet Environments on Ancient Mars
[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] Mars once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life, according to two new studies based on data from the CRISM and other instruments on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
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»» NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to Begin Rasping Frozen Layer
[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice.
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»» Phoenix Mars Lander Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample
[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into cement-hard frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop.
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»» ESA Mars Express Imagery: Echus Chasma
[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express has returned images of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet.
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»» The NASA-ESA Comparative Architecture Assessment
[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] In January 2008, NASA and ESA agreed to conduct a comparative architecture assessment to determine if their respective lunar architecture concepts could complement, augment, or enhance the exploration plans of the other.
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»» MSSS Delivers First Science Instrument to JPL for 2009 Mars Rover Mission Payload
[Thursday, July 17, 2008] Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS), has delivered the first of four science cameras it is developing for the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2009 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover mission.
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»» Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct
[Tuesday, July 22, 2008] Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, but many of these minute creatures are living on a geologic timescale.
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»» NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares For Next Sample Analysis
[Wednesday, July 23, 2008] The latest activities of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have moved the mission closer to analyzing a sample of material, possibly icy soil, from a hard layer at the bottom of a shallow trench beside the lander.
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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Lander Collects Icy Soil But Needs To Work On Delivery
[Sunday, July 27, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Landers robotic arm collected a more than adequate amount of icy soil for baking in one of the landers ovens but will need to adjust how it delivers samples.
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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Revises Method To Deliver Icy Sample
[Sunday, July 27, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm will use a revised collection-and-delivery sequence overnight Sunday with the goal of depositing an icy soil sample in the lander's ove
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»» NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil
[Monday, July 28, 2008] Scientists and engineers on NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission spent the weekend examining how the icy soil on Mars interacts with the scoop on the lander's robotic arm, while trying different techniques to deliver a sample to one of the instruments.
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»» Mars Express acquires sharpest images of martian moon Phobos
[Wednesday, July 30, 2008] Mars Express closed in on the intriguing martian moon Phobos at 6:49 CEST on 23 July, flying past at 3 km/s, only 93 km from the moon. The ESA spacecraft's fly-bys of the moon have returned its most detailed full-disc images ever.
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»» NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Close-up Images of 'Snow Queen' Show Changes
[Wednesday, July 30, 2008] A distinctive hard-surface feature called "Snow Queen" beneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander visibly changed sometime between mid-June and mid-July, close-up images from the Robotic Arm Camera show.
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