October 2003 Top Stories
»» The Odyssey Orbiter Continues to Share the Adventure of Mars Exploration
[Friday, October 03, 2003] NASA's Mars Odyssey team has released another significant installment of science data for the public and science community to review and analyze.
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»» Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Mars In Color
[Saturday, October 04, 2003] This is an enhanced color image from the eastern edge of Acidalia Planitia shows a heavily eroded landscape just south of the outflow channel called Mawrth Vallis.
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»» Nozomi's Swingby of Earth
[Tuesday, October 07, 2003] On June 19, the Mars explorer Nozomi implemented an Earth swingby. This maneuver succeeded in putting Nozomi into an orbit which will enable it to arrive at Mars in mid-December of this year.
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»» Rocks could reveal secrets of life on Earth - and Mars
[Thursday, October 09, 2003] A new UK project could help detect evidence for life on Mars, as well as improve our understanding of how it evolved on Earth.
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»» ESA Mars Express Status 15 Oct 2003
[Wednesday, October 15, 2003] The first Interplanetary Cruise checkout of the Beagle-2 lander was conducted on 7 October 2003. The second and final Beagle-2 checkout for this phase is scheduled for the 3rd of November.
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»» Keith Cowing's Devon Island Journal: Summer 2003
[Thursday, October 16, 2003] Unlike last year, this was my second 'mission' to Devon Island. I have already endured the hardships, and learned what to do - and not to do. As such, this year would be less of an unknown adventure - but, an adventure, none the less it was.
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»» NASA Scientists to Study Lake's Primitive Life to Learn About Mars
[Wednesday, October 22, 2003] Scientists from NASA, the SETI Institute and other institutions will study microscopic life forms in some of the highest lakes on Earth atop a South American volcano to learn what life may have been like on early Mars.
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»» Green Mineral Indicates Red Planet is Dry
[Thursday, October 23, 2003] The presence of olivine, a common green mineral, on Mars suggests that the red planet could have been cold and dry since the mineral has been exposed, which may be more than a billion years.
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»» Congress: Should Mars be Human Space Flight Objective?
[Friday, October 24, 2003] "The whole point of leaving home is, after all, to go somewhere, not
to endlessly circle the block." - Wesley Huntress, Carnegie
Institution.
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»» NASA Adapts Miniature Biological Lab for Use in Space
[Wednesday, October 29, 2003] NASA is adapting tiny laboratories embedded in compact
discs (CDs) to conduct biological tests aboard the
International Space Station and to eventually look for life on
other planets.
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»» NASA Testing K9 Rover in Granite Quarry for Future Mars Missions
[Thursday, October 30, 2003] NASA scientists and engineers are testing new technologies using the K9 rover in a granite quarry near Watsonville, Calif., in preparation for future missions to Mars.
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