[Thursday, September 1, 2005] The top of the hill is moderately flat and fairly easy to navigate. Even though sol 581 (Aug. 21, 2005) marked a major accomplishment for Spirit, the "little rover that could" had no time to rest.

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[Thursday, September 1, 2005] Working atop a range of Martian hills, NASA's Spirit rover is rewarding researchers with tempting scenes filled with evidence of past planet environments.

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[Thursday, September 1, 2005] Meaningful exploration in the hostile environs of the moon and Mars will depend on mobility. Tough, dependable equipment will be needed to get there, work there and get back safely.

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[Monday, September 5, 2005] The Mars Immunoassay Life Detection Instrument (MILDI) would use a tiny biochip to detect life on Mars based on the assumption that Mars has the same prebiotic chemicals as Earth.

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[Monday, September 5, 2005] This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a dust devil caught in the act of creating a dark streak on the floor of the large, south mid-latitude crater, Mendel.

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[Tuesday, September 6, 2005] Perched on the crest of "Husband Hill," Spirit took images for a summit panorama and used instruments on the robotic arm to investigate soil targets.

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[Tuesday, September 6, 2005] Editor's note: This chart was part of a series of internal presentations made at NASA during June 2005 on the progress of the Exploration Systems Architecture Study.

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[Wednesday, September 7, 2005] This composite of red and blue Mars Global Surveyor daily global images acquired on 6 July 2005 shows an isolated water ice cloud extending more than 30 kilometers (more than 18 miles) above the martian surface.

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[Saturday, September 10, 2005] A breakthrough by a team of British, US and French scientists will help protect astronauts, spacecraft and satellites from radiation hazards experienced in space.

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[Monday, September 12, 2005] Spirit is in good health, power positive, and has no issues. This week the telecom team changed Spirit's uplink rate from 1000 bits per second to 2000 bits per second.

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[Tuesday, September 13, 2005] A large team of NASA scientists, led by earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis details the first solid set of evidence for water having existed on Mars at the Gusev crater, exploration site of the rover Spirit.

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[Tuesday, September 13, 2005] The 2005 field season on Devon Island has been the smoothest since the start of the Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse project in 2002. This year, the level of CSA activities in the Arctic warranted the chartering of an aircraft to carry staff and equipment.

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[Wednesday, September 14, 2005] The Mars Institute is seeking applications for a new position on the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP): Project Manager - Canada. Application deadline with electronic submission only is Wednesday, October 5, 2005, 11:59 pm PST.

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[Wednesday, September 14, 2005] ESA has started a technical investigation into the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on board Mars Express, after a problem developed in the instrument a few months ago.

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[Wednesday, September 14, 2005] A bike-like centrifuge that creates artificial gravity may help astronauts combat muscle atrophy in space.  Through a study the NSBRI is exploring the concept of a Space Cycle for inflight resistance-training exercise.

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[Thursday, September 15, 2005] Three cameras on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter worked as expected in a test pointing them at the moon and stars on Sept. 8.

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[Sunday, September 18, 2005] NASA's Mars Global Survey orbiter has observed some interesting changes at Mars. Researchers will announce and discuss the discoveries at a listen-and-logon news briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 20.

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[Tuesday, September 20, 2005] New impact craters formed since the 1970s suggest changes to age-estimating models. And deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress.

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[Friday, September 23, 2005] ESA's Mars Express mission has been extended by one Martian year, or about 23 months, from the beginning of December 2005.

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[Sunday, September 25, 2005] If NASA wants to enjoy enhanced support, NASA needs to work to bring people along to a new appreciation of what space exploration is really about - but this has to be done with society's viewpoint as a starting point - not NASA's.

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[Monday, September 26, 2005] Opportunity is healthy and continuing its drive toward "Erebus Crater." Images taken this week show the interior of the crater. Plans for the next few sols are to get closer to the crater's edge and do extensive imaging.

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[Monday, September 26, 2005] NASA will showcase two intelligent robots on Monday, October 3, in the outdoor 'Marscape' at NASA Ames Research Center, located in California's Silicon Valley.

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[Tuesday, September 27, 2005] Global Aerospace Corporation proposes that the Mars exploration vehicle combining the global reach similar to that of orbiters and high resolution observations enabled by rovers could be a balloon.

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[Wednesday, September 28, 2005] Spirit completed a campaign of using the tools on its robotic arm to examine the feature "Cliffhanger." Spirit scuffed the soil using its wheels in the area around Cliffhanger, and then observed both the scuffed and undisturbed soil.

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[Thursday, September 29, 2005] As NASA prepares for the future exploration of Mars, students on Earth can now let their imagination and curiosity soar though the canyons of Valles Marineris and over the top of Olympus Mons on the red planet.

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