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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 ...

Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 07, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (17) | 6

(AP) -- A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space - an idea spurred by science fiction novels.

Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 05, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

(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 ...

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, ...

Icebreaker: Scientist brings out big gun to explore behavior of ice in planetary collisions

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every month, Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay fires her 20-foot gun in the basement of Harvard's Hoffman Lab, sending shivers through the concrete and steel structure that can be picked up by seismometers ...

Channels from Mars Hale Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 28, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) ...

Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 20, 2009 | 4 / 5 (22) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface. In reality, they will live and work in a sealed facility ...

Cooking Up Water From the Moon? NASA Studies Water Extraction With Microwaves

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intrigued by NASA lunar missions in the 1990s which suggested the existence of ice within craters at the moon's poles, NASA scientist Dr. Edwin Ethridge and his team started cooking up a way ...

Migrating Microbes

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 15, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

With every spacecraft that leaves Earth, millions of microbes hitch a ride into space. As astrobiologists search for life in other worlds, preventing forward and back contamination remains a key priority.

Tiny technology may yield major finds -- and possible perils

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Oct 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (7) | 3

Imagine a particle so small it would take a million of them to stretch across the period at the end of this sentence. Imagine such particles could help catch cancer cells floating in your bloodstream before they could metastasize ...

Scientists work to free Mars rover Spirit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (11) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past several weeks, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory finished experimentation on methods to get the rover Spirit unstuck from its location near a plateau called Home Plate.

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