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Meteorite Found on Mars Yields Clues About Planet's Past

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 10, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (11) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history. ...

Opportunity Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Victoria Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 21, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.

One Mars Rover Sees a Distant Goal; The Other Takes a New Route

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 18, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (7) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater ...

Spirit Mars Rover: No Wheel Stall in Diagnostic Drive

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 25, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Sol 2095 (Tuesday, Nov. 24), Spirit performed a set of diagnostic actions related to a stall of the right-rear wheel on the previous drive, three days earlier.

LSU gets to the bottom of things -- in Antarctica

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 24, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 1

Antarctica has long held secrets of the earth's history locked in its icy depths, and until recently, there has been very little information on the environments that have been sealed beneath miles of ice for millions of years. ...

Second Planned Extrication Drive is Straight Ahead Again

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 19, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because the first extrication drive for Spirit, on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17), stopped as soon as it began due to an exceeded tilt limit, the plan for an extrication drive on Sol 2090 (Nov. 19) wil ...

NASA and Microsoft Allow Earthlings to Become Martians

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars.

Discoveries in the Deep

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 12, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Scientists from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have been using Pavilion Lake as a testing ground for the future human exploration of other worlds.

NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 12, 2009 | 5 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.

Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 31, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (8) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year.

A Mars Rover Named 'Curiosity'

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 30, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (18) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you found your grandmother's diary, tattered and dust covered, up in the attic, would you read it? Of course you would. Granny was a pistol! Brush off the dust, open up the little book, ...

Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 28, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (11) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes.

LADEE Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 26, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 1

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 ...

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