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»» NASA's Next Mars Spacecraft Arrives in Florida for Final Checkout
[Tuesday, May 3, 2005] NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) arrived at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility on April 30 aboard a C-17 cargo plane and was taken to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to begin processing.
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»» Alliance Spacesystems, Inc. Selected to Build Robotic Arm for Phoenix Mission to Mars
[Wednesday, May 4, 2005] Phoenix will be landing on the icy northern pole of Mars in May of 2008. It is believed that the ice-rich soil there may be one of the few habitable environments where a biological system can survive.
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»» Beam Me to Mars
[Wednesday, May 4, 2005] An exciting NASA-funded research project could send astronauts racing to Mars up to six times faster. The solution - proposed by Dr. Robert Winglee of the University of Washington - sounds like science fiction.
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»» MGS Finds Viking Lander 2 and Mars Polar Lander (Maybe)
[Thursday, May 5, 2005] Observations by MGS MOC in 2004 of the
Mars Exploration Rover (MER) landing sites provided guidance for
a re-examination of the previously identified MPL candidate.
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»» NASA Plans Dramatic Changes to its Exploration Systems Approach
[Thursday, May 5, 2005] "NASA has initiated the Exploration Systems Architecture Study in an effort to minimize the gap between the final Space Shuttle mission and the maiden flight of an operational CRew Exploration Vehicle"
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»» NASA Mars Rover Status Report 3 May 2005
[Friday, May 6, 2005] The Opportunity team continues working with an engineering test rover to determine the safest way to attempt to drive the rover out of the dune where it's currently parked on Mars.
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»» NASA Mars Rover Status Report 6 May 2005
[Friday, May 6, 2005] Opportunity is imaging the plains and performing atmospheric science observations while waiting for engineers on Earth to give it the go-ahead to move. The team is diligently working to determine why Opportunity dug itself into a small dune.
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»» NASA Rover Team Tests Mars Moves on Earth
[Friday, May 6, 2005] Mars rover engineers are using a testing laboratory to simulate specific Mars surface conditions where NASA's rover Opportunity has spun its wheels in a small dune. Careful testing is preceding any commands for Opportunity to resume moving to get out of t
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»» Deployment of second MARSIS boom delayed
[Monday, May 9, 2005] The deployment of the second antenna boom of the Mars Express Sub-Surface Sounding Radar Altimeter (MARSIS) science experiment has been delayed pending investigation of an anomaly found during deployment of the first antenna boom.
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»» First MARSIS boom successfully deployed
[Wednesday, May 11, 2005] Thanks to a manoeuvre performed on 10 May 2005 at 20:20 CET, ESA flight controllers have successfully completed the deployment of the first boom of the MARSIS radar on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft.
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»» Mars Express Status Report April 2005
[Thursday, May 12, 2005] A problem in maintaining the correct thermal environment for OMEGA caused one week of no science operations for this instrument in February. The problem has since been fixed.
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»» Map of life on Earth could be used on Mars - Finding the 'peculiar' ancestor
[Friday, May 13, 2005] A geologist from Washington University in St. Louis is developing new techniques to render a more coherent story of how primitive life arose and diverged on Earth - with implications for Mars.
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»» Nature Study Explains Mystery of Mars Icecaps
[Friday, May 13, 2005] A geologist from Washington University in St. Louis is developing new techniques to render a more coherent story of how primitive life arose and diverged on Earth - with implications for Mars.
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»» NASA Mars Exploration Rover Update 17 May 2005
[Friday, May 20, 2005] On Opportunity's first three drives to get out of the sand trap, the rover has advanced a total of 7.4 centimeters (2.9 inches) in getting off the dune.
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»» One Mars Orbiter Takes First Photos of Other Orbiters
[Friday, May 20, 2005] Photographs from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft released today are the first pictures ever taken of a spacecraft orbiting a foreign planet by another spacecraft orbiting that planet.
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»» Significant Runoff on Early Mars Identified in River Channels By National Air and Space Museum Geologists
[Saturday, May 21, 2005] Mars is now a cold, dry desert, but robotic satellites and rovers have returned new evidence of a warmer and wetter climate more than 3.5 billion years ago, when conditions may have been more favorable for life.
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»» NASA Sources Sought Notice: Pressure Suits to Protect Crews From Hostile Environments Throughout All Mission Phases to Support the Vision for Space Exploration
[Monday, May 23, 2005] The Government is currently conducting a trade study to determine the quantity and type of pressure suits that may be required to meet the requirements of the VSE.
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»» NASA's Rovers Continue Martian Missions
[Tuesday, May 24, 2005] NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is trying to escape from a sand trap, while its twin, Spirit, has been busy finding new clues to a wet and violent early Martian history.
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»» NASA Roadmap for the Robotic and Human Exploration of Mars
[Thursday, May 26, 2005] The Vision for Space Exploration provides new impetus and specific goals for the nation's Mars exploration program. These have been adopted as NASA's strategic objectives and constitute the charter of the Mars roadmap.
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»» Traces of stowaway Algae Could Survive on Mars, Study Finds
[Monday, May 30, 2005] Some hardy Earth microbes could survive long enough on Mars to complicate the search for alien life, according to a new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers.
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