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Final Attempts to Hear from Mars Phoenix Scheduled

(PhysOrg.com) -- From May 17 to 21, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will conduct a fourth and final campaign to check on whether the Phoenix Mars Lander has come back to life.

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created May 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

No Peep from Phoenix in Third Odyssey Listening Stint

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter heard no signal from the Phoenix Mars Lander when it listened from orbit while passing over Phoenix 60 times last week.

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created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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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created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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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created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Spirit Finishes Pre-Winter Drives

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is now parked for the winter. The rover team is commanding Spirit this week to make additional preparations for the Mars southern hemisphere winter season. ...

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created Feb 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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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created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA listens for silent Mars lander

(AP) -- Will Phoenix rise from the dead? Don't bet on it.

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created Jan 17, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2

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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created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

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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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit, positioning itself to look down at the day side of the planet in mid-afternoon instead of late ...

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created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mars and Earth Activities Aim to Get Spirit Rolling Again

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's rover project team is using the Spirit rover and other spacecraft at Mars to begin developing the best maneuvers for extracting Spirit from the soft Martian ground where it has become ...

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created May 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Scientists monitor developing Mars dust storm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a new dust storm that has ...

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created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Mars Spacecraft Teams on Alert for Dust-Storm Season

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports.

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created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Mars Orbiter's Computer Reboots Successfully

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter properly followed commands today to shut down and restart, a strategy by its engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey's ...

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created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Odyssey Flight Team to Check Status of Backup System

(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter plans a procedure next week to address a long-known, potential vulnerability of accumulated memory corruption.

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created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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