News tagged with martian

Heat Shield Readied for Next Mars Rover

Jul 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, has finished building and testing the heat shield for protecting the Curiosity rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project. This heat shield is even larger than the ...

Geological landforms indicate 'recent' warm weather on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 29, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (13) | 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research led by a UK scientist indicates that Mars had significantly warmer weather in its recent past than previously thought. The research, funded by the UK’s Science and Technology ...

Mars Rover Yielding New Clues While Lodged in Martian Soil

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 25, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (11) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history.

First direct evidence of lightning on Mars detected

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 17, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (14) | 3

For the first time, direct evidence of lightning has been detected on Mars, say University of Michigan researchers who found signs of electrical discharges during dust storms on the Red Planet.

Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Crater

Opportunity Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Victoria Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 21, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (13) | 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.

The search for unusual alien life on Earth and life that can survive on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 21, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

Questions such as "How to search for weird alien life?" and "Would Earth microbes survive if delivered to the surface of Mars?" are addressed in articles that are part of the collection of reports presented ...

Mars Spacecraft Teams on Alert for Dust-Storm Season

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports.

Features of early Martian environment and presence of water drive search for life forms

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 16, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

New Rochelle, April 16, 2009-Solar energy and winds, collisions with asteroids and comets, and changing magnetic fields have all altered the environment of Mars, a planet that may have been able to support ...

Mars Express zeroes in on erosion features

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express has uncovered geological evidence suggesting that some depositional process, revealed by erosion, has been at work on large scales in the equatorial regions of the planet. If ...

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 ...

Report: Images from Mars lander show liquid water

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 11, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (9) | 2

(AP) -- Did NASA's Phoenix Mars lander find evidence of liquid water before it froze to death?

New Views of Martian Moon and Surface

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 09, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (10) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from two observations of the Martian moon Deimos and more than 600 observations of Mars, acquired by the high-resolution camera (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, became ...

Mountain on Mars may answer big question

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 04, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (17) | 1

The Martian volcano Olympus Mons is about three times the height of Mount Everest, but it's the small details that Rice University professors Patrick McGovern and Julia Morgan are looking at in thinking about ...

Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jan 15, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (15) | 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, ...

Phoenix Mars Mission Faces Survival Challenges

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 29, 2008 | 3.9 / 5 (7) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a race against time and the elements, engineers with NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission hope to extend the lander's survival by gradually shutting down some of its instruments and heaters, ...