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Mars Odyssey Still Hears Nothing From Phoenix
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander showed no sign during February that it has revived itself after the northern Mars winter. NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will check again in early April.
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Mar 02, 2010 |
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No Signal Heard During First Day of Resumed Listening for Phoenix
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey began a second campaign Monday to check on whether the Phoenix Mars Lander has revived itself after the northern Martian winter. The orbiter received no signal from the ...
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Feb 24, 2010 |
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NASA Orbiter Listening for Phoenix Lander Hears Nothing
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has completed 11 overflights, listening for the Phoenix Mars Lander on Jan. 19 and 20, without hearing anything from the lander.
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Jan 20, 2010 |
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NASA listens for silent Mars lander
(AP) -- Will Phoenix rise from the dead? Don't bet on it.
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Jan 17, 2010 |
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NASA to Check for Unlikely Winter Survival of Mars Lander
(PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning Jan. 18, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic ...
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Jan 12, 2010 |
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Mars Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Saturday, Nov. 28, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's ...
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Dec 01, 2009 |
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NASA 'Drops' Next Generation Robotic Lander During Autonomous Tests
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has successfully completed a series of autonomous "drop" tests of a robotic lander test article - in a record 10 months - to demonstrate the ability to perform a controlled landing on ...
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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Taking a Bite of Antarctic Ice
Scientists with NASA’s IceBite project are heading this week for University Valley, a hanging valley perched more than 1600 feet (more than 1 mile) above sea level in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. Their ...
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images
(PhysOrg.com) -- Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard ...
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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NASA and X Prize Announce Winners of Lunar Lander Challenge
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA will award $1.65 million in prize money Thursday to a pair of innovative aerospace companies that successfully simulated landing a spacecraft on the moon and lifting off again.
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Nov 03, 2009 |
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LADEE Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere
Right now, the Moon is a ghost town. Nothing stirs. Here and there, an abandoned Apollo rover — or the dusty base of a lunar lander — linger as silent testimony to past human activity. But these days, only ...
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Oct 26, 2009 |
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'Look Ma, No Parachute!' Lunar Lander Floats on Electric-blue Jets
How do you fly on a world with no atmosphere? Wings won't work and neither do propellers. And don't even try that parachute!
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Oct 15, 2009 |
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Biosphere 2 Opens Phoenix Mars Lander Exhibit
(PhysOrg.com) -- A full-size model Phoenix Lander has landed at Biosphere 2 before it heads, ultimately, to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C
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Sep 18, 2009 |
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Rockets vie in simulated lunar landing contest
(AP) -- A privately built rocket vying for NASA prize money lifted off in the Mojave Desert and flew half of a simulated lunar lander mission Wednesday before an engine problem forced its developers to call ...
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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NASA may delay 2020 moon launch
NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are quietly being revised and are in danger of slipping past 2020.
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Apr 22, 2009 |
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