News tagged with planetary missions

New cleaning protocol for future 'search for life' missions

Jun 08, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

Scientists have developed a new cleaning protocol for space hardware, such as the scoops of Mars rovers, which could be used on future "Search for Life" missions on other planets.

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NASA starts new science Web site

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 10, 2008 | 4.9 / 5 (8) | 0

The U.S. space agency announced the start of a new Web site designed to provide information about its scientific endeavors and achievements.

European meeting in Athens fuels future space exploration missions to Mars, Moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 31, 2007 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

A European Science Foundation (ESF)-led workshop sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA) has enabled 88 scientists from 11 European countries to agree on science goals for future Europe's planetary exploration programme; ...

C1XS success will provide new understanding of lunar surface

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 18, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

Over its ten months of operation, the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) gathered data for a total of 30 solar flares, giving the most accurate measurements to date of magnesium, aluminium, silicon, calcium ...

NASA and ESA prioritize outer planet missions

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Feb 18, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

At a meeting in Washington last week, NASA and ESA officials decided to first pursue a mission to study Jupiter and its four largest moons, and plan for another mission to visit Saturn's largest moon, Titan, ...

Planetary Society plans new 'solar sail'

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 09, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (14) | 1

(AP) -- Four years after its first solar sail ended up in the ocean instead of orbit, The Planetary Society announced Monday that by the end of 2010 it will try again to launch a spacecraft that will be propelled by the ...

Successful first test of high speed 'penetrator'

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 09, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 0

High speed ‘penetrators’ that could one day be used to breach the surface of planets have successfully passed their first test in the UK, accelerating to 700 miles per hour before striking their target. A team led by University ...

New imaging detectors could take snapshots from deep space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 14, 2007 | 4.2 / 5 (6) | 0

Snapshots from space may someday confirm the presence of lakes and oceans on Europa—one of Jupiter’s moons—and on other planetary bodies. Imaging detectors that capture information from every wavelength in the electromagnetic ...

Water Bears to Travel to Martian Moon, Test Theory of Transpermia

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 13, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (14) | 22

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny microscopic creatures commonly known as water bears (also called Tardigrades), along with a few other life forms, will be sent to the Martian moon Phobos to test whether organisms can ...

The next-best thing to being on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Feb 26, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (8) | 1

Last week, two MIT students began living, working and communicating with the outside world as if they were on a mission to Mars. Whenever they go outside their small, round habitat where eight people are spending ...