News tagged with lander
NASA 'Drops' Next Generation Robotic Lander During Autonomous Tests
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Taking a Bite of Antarctic Ice
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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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 ...
Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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(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 and X Prize Announce Winners of Lunar Lander Challenge
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Nov 03, 2009 |
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(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.
LADEE Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere
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Oct 26, 2009 |
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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 ...
'Look Ma, No Parachute!' Lunar Lander Floats on Electric-blue Jets
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 15, 2009 |
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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!
Biosphere 2 Opens Phoenix Mars Lander Exhibit
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Sep 18, 2009 |
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(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
Rockets vie in simulated lunar landing contest
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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(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 ...
NASA may delay 2020 moon launch
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Apr 22, 2009 |
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NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are quietly being revised and are in danger of slipping past 2020.
Mars explorer says we'll find life on other planets within 10 years
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Apr 21, 2009 |
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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.
Liquid saltwater is likely present on Mars, new analysis shows
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Mar 17, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Report: Images from Mars lander show liquid water
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Mar 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Did NASA's Phoenix Mars lander find evidence of liquid water before it froze to death?
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 ...
New dreams rise from Phoenix's ashes
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Nov 18, 2008 |
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(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.
Phoenix Mars Lander Out Of Communication
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Oct 30, 2008 |
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(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 ...
