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Mars Orbiter's Computer Reboots Successfully
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Mars Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby
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Dec 01, 2009 |
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(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 ...
New underwater robot can hover in place
Sep 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers have designed a new robotic underwater vehicle that can hover in place like a helicopter -- an invaluable tool for deepwater oil explorers, marine archaeologists, oceanographers ...
Odyssey Flight Team to Check Status of Backup System
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Mar 04, 2009 |
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(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.
Mars Odyssey Shifting Orbit for Extended Mission
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The longest-serving of six spacecraft now studying Mars is up to new tricks for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets.
Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Lone llama rescued after month on Pikes Peak
Oct 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A lone llama wandering near the summit of Pikes Peak for a month has been captured and is heading to a new home.
NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander
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Dec 02, 2008 |
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(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 ...
NASA: Arthur C. Clarke will be missed
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Mar 19, 2008 |
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration issued a statement Wednesday, mourning the death of renowned scientist and author Arthur C. Clarke.
Better looks at Mars minerals for ASU instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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A slow drift in the orbit of NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft that mission controllers started nine months ago is now giving an ASU instrument a better and more sensitive view of minerals on the surface of Mars. ...
Celestial clues hint at eclipse in Homer's Odyssey
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Jun 24, 2008 |
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Among countless other debates about Homer's Odyssey -- not the least of which is whether the entire poem can be attributed to Homer himself -- is whether Odysseus returns home to experience a total solar eclipse. But a Rockefeller ...
Mars and Earth Activities Aim to Get Spirit Rolling Again
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May 19, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Odyssey Finds Possible Cave Skylights on Mars
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Sep 21, 2007 |
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano. The find is fueling interest in potential underground habitats and sparking searches for ...
ASU Mars instrument gets new lease on life as NASA extends Mars Odyssey mission
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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A six-minute rocket firing on Sept. 30 has put NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft on track for a new orbit around the Red Planet. The change, part of a two-year extension for the mission, will give an ASU-operated instrument ...
1968 Science Fiction is Today’s Reality
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May 08, 2008 |
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The futuristic epic 2001: A Space Odyssey influenced many to fall in love with the limitless possibilities of space exploration. The movie sparked imaginations and provided a realistic preview of what our ...
