News tagged with mars science
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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Channels from Mars Hale Crater
(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are seeing sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars, thanks to quick-turnaround observations from orbit of fresh ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution
Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Mars Orbiter Puts Itself in Safe Mode Again
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself into a safe mode Wednesday morning, Aug. 26, for the fourth time this year, while maintaining spacecraft health and communications. While in safe ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Geological landforms indicate 'recent' warm weather on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research led by a UK scientist indicates that Mars had significantly warmer weather in its recent past than previously thought. The research, funded by the UK’s Science and Technology ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Opportunity Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Victoria Crater
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2009 |
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Mars explorer says we'll find life on other planets within 10 years
Within 10 years, we'll find life outside Earth -- that's the prediction of Peter Smith, the University of Arizona professor who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2009 |
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One Mars Rover Sees a Distant Goal; The Other Takes a New Route
(PhysOrg.com) -- On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Mars Orbiter Resumes Normal Science Operations
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has fully recovered from an unexpected computer re-set last week and resumed its scientific investigation of Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Mountain on Mars may answer big question
The Martian volcano Olympus Mons is about three times the height of Mount Everest, but it's the small details that Rice University professors Patrick McGovern and Julia Morgan are looking at in thinking about ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Gullies on Mars show tantalizing signs of recent water activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Planetary geologists at Brown University have found a gully fan system on Mars that formed about 1.25 million years ago. The fan offers compelling evidence that it was formed by melt water ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Socializing on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- After five groundbreaking years exploring the Red Planet, the communications engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pretty much know what they are getting when another downlink from ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2009 |
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