Search results for +"Mars" :
 Trench on Mars Ready for Next Sampling by NASA Lander(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has groomed the bottom of a shallow trench to prepare for collecting a sample to be analyzed from a hard subsurface layer where the soil may contain frozen water. ... |
 N.M. cavers chart unique 'snowy' river of crystals(AP) -- Hundreds of feet beneath Earth's surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum crystals and mineral deposits. The ... |
 Phoenix Completes Longest Work Shift(PhysOrg.com) -- Phoenix early Tuesday finished its longest work shift of the mission. The lander stayed awake for 33 hours, completing tasks that included rasping and scraping by the robotic arm, in addition ... |
 Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night(PhysOrg.com) -- To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time. ... |
Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinctTiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures ... |
 New Project To Develop GPS-Like System For MoonThe same Ohio State University researcher who is helping rovers navigate on Mars is leading a new effort to help humans navigate on the moon. |
 Mars Sample Return: bridging robotic and human explorationThe first robotic mission to return samples to Earth from Mars took a further step toward realisation with the recent publication of a mission design report by the iMARS Working Group. The report, defines ... |
 Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground. |
 3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. The images in the new 3-D Gallery combine views from the left and right "eyes" of the ... |
 Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample(PhysOrg.com) -- A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop. |
 Mars Express to rendezvous with Martian moon(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and engineers are preparing ESA’s Mars Express for a pair of close fly-bys of the Martian moon Phobos. Passing within 100 km of the surface, Mars Express will conduct some of the ... |
 Researchers reveal widespread, hardworking water on ancient Mars(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, scientists have theorized – romanticized, even – that Mars has harbored water. The evidence has grown stronger as recent missions to the Red Planet have revealed in stunning detail ... |
 Phoenix Mars Lander Extending TrenchNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens. |
 For Toy-Like NASA Robots in Arctic, Ice Research Is Child's PlaySeveral snowmobiles navigated speedily over arctic ice and snow in Alaska's outback in late June. This scene might seem ordinary except that the recently unveiled snowmobiles are unmanned, autonomous, toy-size ... |
 Makemake -- or Easter bunny -- enters book of space names Pluto -- downgraded two years ago to the status of a dwarf planet -- has an exotically-named chum on the fringes of the Solar System. |
