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Next NASA Mars Mission Rescheduled for 2011

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 04, 2008 | 4 / 5 (6) | 0

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in the fall of 2011. The mission will send a next-generation rover with unprecedented research tools to study the early environmental ...

Site List Narrows For NASA's Next Mars Landing

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 20, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (12) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Four intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science Laboratory.

NASA Invites Students to Name New Mars Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 18, 2008 | 3.2 / 5 (5) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover. NASA, in cooperation with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' movie WALL-E from Pixar Animation ...

NASA and Google Launch Virtual Exploration of Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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 ...

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