[Monday, November 03, 2003] Mars is kind of like Texas: things are just bigger there. In addition to the biggest canyon and biggest volcano in the solar system, Mars has now been found to have sand ripples twice as tall as they would be on Earth.

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[Thursday, November 06, 2003] ESA's Mars Express probe is scheduled to arrive at Mars at Christmas: the Beagle 2 lander is expected to touch down on the surface of the Red Planet on the night of 24 to 25 December.

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[Friday, November 07, 2003] A team of scientists has discovered clues from one of Earth's driest deserts about the limits of life on Earth, and why past missions to Mars may have failed to detect life.

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[Wednesday, November 12, 2003] What is the next best thing to humans landing on Mars and exploring the wonders of the Red Planet? The answer: touching, imaging and analysing carefully preserved samples of Martian rock in a state-of-the-art laboratory on Earth.

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[Wednesday, November 12, 2003] NASA's Office of Space Science intends to release an Announcement of Opportunity in March 2004 timeframe to solicit proposals for Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission investigations for a space flight mission to be launched in December 2009.

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[Thursday, November 13, 2003] Outcrops of layered rock abound in the "grand canyon of Mars," the Valles Marineris.

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[Thursday, November 13, 2003] Newly seen details in a fan-shaped apron of debris on Mars may help settle a decades-long debate about whether the planet had long-lasting rivers instead of just brief, intense floods.

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[Thursday, November 13, 2003] Sometime in the distant past, when it was still possible for liquid water to flow across the martian surface, sediments transported through valleys by water formed a fan-shaped deposit in a crater northeast of Holden Crater.

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[Friday, November 14, 2003] This spectacular view of the sunlit cliffs and basaltic sand dunes in southern Melas Chasma shows Mars in a way rarely seen: in full, realistic color.

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[Saturday, November 15, 2003] Europe's mission to the Red Planet, Mars Express, is on schedule to arrive at the planet on Christmas Day, 2003. The lander, Beagle 2, is due to descend through the Martian atmosphere and touch down also on 25 December.

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[Thursday, November 20, 2003] NASA's Spirit spacecraft made its third trajectory correction maneuver on Friday, Nov. 14, fine tuning its flight path toward Mars with an engine-firing operation planned into the seven-month trip.

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[Thursday, November 20, 2003] EarthDial is a project to get schools, community organizations and individuals around the world to build their own sundials and display them on the Internet using 24-hour webcams. Both Mars rovers are equipped with sundials, referred to as Marsdials.

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[Monday, November 24, 2003] CSA and MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. MDA have announced that MDA has been awarded $1.2 million by the CSA for Phase A for a key scientific instrument of the NASA Phoenix Mission, set to go to Mars in 2007.

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[Tuesday, November 25, 2003] To help capture the scientific output of the recent 3rd International Conference on Mars Polar Science & Exploration, the conveners have made arrangements with the planetary science journal Icarus for the publication of the 3rd Mars Polar Science special

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[Tuesday, November 25, 2003] This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) picture shows layers exposed in the upper wall of a meteor impact crater, and the dry talus that has been shed from this layered slope.

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[Tuesday, November 25, 2003] Preparations for the January Mars landings by NASA's two mobile robotic geologists, Spirit and Opportunity, will be discussed at a press briefing 1:00 p.m. EST, Dec. 2, 2003.

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[Wednesday, November 26, 2003] On Oct. 28, 2003, during a period of intense solar activity, the martian radiation environment experiment instrument stopped working properly. Controllers' efforts to restore the instrument to normal operations have not been successful.

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[Thursday, November 27, 2003] This image shows sand dunes and large ripples in a crater in the Hellespontus region of Mars. Unlike the majority of dunes on Earth, sand dunes on Mars are mostly made up of dark, rather than light, grains.

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[Friday, November 28, 2003] This picture presents a view of the thick, dust-mantled surface of the upper west flank of Pavonis Mons. Strong slope winds move and redistribute some of the fine sediment on the surface of this volcano, creating a pattern of light and dark wind streaks.

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[Friday, November 28, 2003] One of the articles in the upcoming issue of National Geographic deals with the search for life on Mars. Vote now to help make sure that a picture of Mars is on the cover!

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[Friday, November 28, 2003] The Mars Express spacecraft, despite a series of intense solar flares that occurred late October-early November in active sunspots regions, is in good health and is operating normally.

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[Saturday, November 29, 2003] The north and south polar regions of Mars exhibit thick deposits of layered sediment. These deposits are considered to contain a record of climate changes that occurred in the relatively recent past.

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