http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (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 the moon or other airless planetary bodies. http://www.physorg.com/news177614572.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:23:23 EST news177614572 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 objective: to test a set of ice-penetrating drills and select one for use on a future mission to the martian polar north, the same region of the planet that NASA`s Phoenix lander investigated in 2008. http://www.physorg.com/news177613575.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:07:23 EST news177613575 (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 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. http://www.physorg.com/news176629880.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:52:02 EST news176629880 (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. http://www.physorg.com/news176456283.html Space & Earth Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:50:01 EST news176456283 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 occasional asteroid impacts disrupt the decades-long spell of profound stillness. http://www.physorg.com/news175800054.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:21:47 EST news175800054 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! http://www.physorg.com/news174846013.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:30:01 EST news174846013 (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 http://www.physorg.com/news172502798.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:30:01 EST news172502798 (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 off the attempt until next month. http://www.physorg.com/news172389719.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:02:35 EST news172389719 NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are quietly being revised and are in danger of slipping past 2020. http://www.physorg.com/news159646447.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:16:05 EST news159646447 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. http://www.physorg.com/news159548452.html Space & Earth Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:01:26 EST news159548452 (PhysOrg.com) -- Salty, liquid water has been detected on a leg of the Mars Phoenix Lander and therefore could be present at other locations on the planet, according to analysis by a group of mission scientists led by a University of Michigan professor. This is the first time liquid water has been detected and photographed outside the Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news156526578.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:36:48 EST news156526578 (AP) -- Did NASA's Phoenix Mars lander find evidence of liquid water before it froze to death? http://www.physorg.com/news155990881.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:59:16 EST news155990881 (PhysOrg.com) -- After nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the lander and listen for its beep. http://www.physorg.com/news147459818.html Space & Earth Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:03:38 EST news147459818 (PhysOrg.com) -- Carlos Lange has some sentimental thoughts about the shut down of the Phoenix Mars Lander, but science never sleeps and he's set his sights on a new mission to the Red Planet. http://www.physorg.com/news146234489.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:41:29 EST news146234489 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander, with its solar-electric power shrinking due to shorter daylight hours and a dust storm, did not respond to an orbiter's attempt to communicate with it Wednesday night and Thursday morning. http://www.physorg.com/news144607044.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:37:24 EST news144607044 (PhysOrg.com) -- As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis. http://www.physorg.com/news142785747.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:42:27 EST news142785747 (PhysOrg.com) -- If the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander can nudge a rock aside today, scientists on the Phoenix team would like to see what's underneath. http://www.physorg.com/news141320965.html Space & Earth Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:49:25 EST news141320965 (PhysOrg.com) -- New pictures from NASA's Phoenix Lander show just what a busy summer the spacecraft on Mars - and its science team at The University of Arizona in Tucson - has been having. http://www.physorg.com/news139163064.html Space & Earth Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:24:24 EST news139163064 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has continued studies of its landing site by widening a trench, making overnight measurements of conductivity in the Martian soil and depositing a sample of surface soil into a gap between partially opened doors to an analytical oven on the lander. http://www.physorg.com/news137685829.html Space & Earth Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:03:49 EST news137685829