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»» Spirit Status: Remarkable Rover Continues to Astonish
[Saturday, June 2, 2007] Spirit is still making new discoveries despite dragging its feet, so to speak, after losing use of the right front wheel 426 sols, or Martian days, ago.
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»» Opportunity Studies Rocks Representative of Crater Wall
[Saturday, June 2, 2007] While stationed at the "Madrid/Guadarrama" outcrop on the "Cape of Good Hope," Opportunity has been studying a cobble with unusual spectral characteristics as measured by the panoramic camera.
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»» Surface Samples Key to Understanding Mars Astrobiology
[Monday, June 4, 2007] Collecting rock and soil samples should be the highest priority scientific objective for Mars exploration, according to a new report from the National Research Council.
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»» Request for Proposals for the Mars Critical Data Products Initiative IV (CDP IV)
[Monday, June 4, 2007] The Mars Exploration Program Office (MEP) released a Request for Proposals for the Mars Critical Data Products Initiative IV (CDP IV) on May 18th.
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»» Tune in for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Image Targeting Challenge Webcast
[Monday, June 4, 2007] The HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is helping NASA search for signs of past and present water on Mars. Students were recently challenged to help choose regions of Mars to photograph. Nine selected areas have been imaged.
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»» HiRISE Releases 1,200 Images, Launches Viewer on Website
[Monday, June 4, 2007] Anyone connected by Internet can now see planet Mars better than at any time in history, through the eye of HiRISE, the most powerful camera ever to orbit another planet.
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»» Opportunity Status: Checking Out New Driving Capabilities
[Sunday, June 10, 2007] Opportunity is healthy and continues to circumnavigate "Victoria Crater" back toward "Duck Bay."
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»» Model Methanogens
[Monday, June 11, 2007] University of Arkansas researchers have tested the methane production of three different types of microorganisms in different soil types that resemble those found on Mars to test the possibility of these soils harboring life.
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»» Noted astrobiologist Imre Friedmann has died
[Tuesday, June 12, 2007] Noted astrobiologist Imre Friedmann died yesterday morning. Friedmann guided the developing careers of many of today's leading astrobiologists.
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»» NASA Research Supports Presence of Large Oceans on Early Mars
[Thursday, June 14, 2007] NASA-funded astrobiologists at the University of California, Berkeley have discovered evidence supporting the presence of large oceans of liquid water on early Mars.
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»» Scientists simulate the effects of blowing Mars dust on NASA's Phoenix lander
[Monday, June 18, 2007] Gusting winds and the pulsating exhaust plumes from the Phoenix spacecraft's landing engines could complicate NASA's efforts to sample frozen soil from the surface of Mars, according to University of Michigan atmospheric scientist Nilton Renno.
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»» NASA Ames Research Center K10 Rovers to Visit Haughton Crater on Devon Island
[Monday, June 18, 2007] The rovers will conduct a comprehensive site survey of the "Drill Hill" area using a 3D lidar (for topographic mapping) and the JPL CRUX ground-penetrating radar (for subsurface mapping).
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»» ESA seeks candidates for simulated 'Missions to Mars' in 2008/2009
[Tuesday, June 19, 2007] ESA is preparing for future human exploration missions to Mars. We are currently looking for volunteers to take part in a 520-day simulated Mars mission.
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»» Spirit's Solar Panels Get A Spring Cleaning
[Wednesday, June 20, 2007] Spirit got a second spring cleaning on Mars with a dust-cleaning event that increased power from the rover's solar arrays by 120 watt-hours. Spirit previously experienced dust-lifting winds in 2005.
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»» Mars Science Laboratory Rover Laser Tool Ready for Testing
[Friday, June 22, 2007] When the JPL-NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover launches in 2009, it will carry this combination laser-telescope unit and enable the gadget-packed rover to know a great deal about rocks in its general vicinity.
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»» Earth as a Classroom
[Wednesday, June 27, 2007] In July 2007 several hundred students will get look over the shoulder of space researchers at a remote research base in the Canadian arctic. The place: Devon Island, a place many call "Mars on Earth".
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»» Scientists find that Earth and Mars are different to the core
[Thursday, June 28, 2007] Research comparing silicon samples from Earth, meteorites and planetary materials, published in Nature (28th June 2007), provides new evidence that the Earth's core formed under very different conditions from those that existed on Mars.
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»» NASA Mars Rover Ready For Descent Into Crater
[Friday, June 29, 2007] Opportunity is scheduled to begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into massive Victoria Crater. This latest trek carries real risk for the long-lived robotic explorer, but NASA and the Mars Rover science team expect it to provide valuable science.
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