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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.

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 ...

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.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft Out of Safe Mode

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 09, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter today has been taken out of the precautionary 'safe mode' it had been in since August.

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.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 16, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft's six science instruments resumed observations today.

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