NASA and Google Launch Virtual Exploration of Mars

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Feb 02, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and Google announced Monday the release of a new Mars mode in Google Earth that brings to everyone's desktop a high-resolution, three-dimensional view of the Red Planet.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: Preventive Care Continues; Science on Hold

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Sep 04, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

During analysis of four safe-mode events this year, engineers for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter project have identified a vulnerability to the effects of subsequent events.

New Set of High-Resolution Mars Images Online

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Oct 08, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Thousands of image products from 233 recent telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a diversity of surface shapes and textures on Mars.

Mars Orbiter Puts Itself in Safe Mode Again

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Aug 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(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 ...

Mars orbiter enters safe mode after disturbance

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Jun 05, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (10) | 4

NASA says its powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode after being hit by a cosmic ray or solar particle.

Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution

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Sep 03, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 0

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 ...

Mars Orbiter Resumes Normal Science Operations

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Mar 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(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.

Orbiter Safe After Computer Swap

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Aug 10, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode, a precautionary standby status, and in communications with Earth after unexpectedly switching to its backup computer on Thurs. Aug. 6.

Dawn Finishes Mars Phase

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Feb 27, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With Mars disappearing in its metaphorical rearview mirror, NASA's Dawn spacecraft's next stop is the asteroid belt and the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn got as close as 549 kilometers (341 miles) ...

Mars Orbiter's Computer Reboots Successfully

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Mar 12, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(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 ...

NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander

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Dec 02, 2008 | 3.9 / 5 (11) | 10

(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 ...

Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope to focus on Mars

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Mar 24, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Microsoft and NASA on Tuesday announced an alliance to focus the software giant's virtual WorldWide Telescope on space agency images of Mars and other celestial bodies.

Many characteristics of Mars, including ice, are similar to Earth

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Jul 02, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 2

Mars gets as far as 250 million miles away, but many parts of it closely resemble places on Earth, including its landscape, history of water, soil and even its weather, says a Texas A&M University researcher ...

NASA Hearing Daily From Weak Phoenix Mars Lander

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Nov 04, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (15) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has communicated with controllers daily since Oct. 30 through relays to Mars orbiters. Information received over the weekend indicates Phoenix is running out of ...

Mars Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby

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Dec 01, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(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 ...