 MARS ROVER MISSION |
The smooth surfaces of angular and rounded rocks seen in this image of the martian terrain released by NASA Tuesday Jan. 6, 2004 may be the result of wind-polishing debris. The pictue was taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. NASA unveiled a breathtaking color photo of the surface of Mars, the sharpest photograph ever taken on the surface of Mars.
- FEB 04, 2004 NASA super-sizes Mars rover pictures - PASADENA, Calif. - Thirty pints of ink, 3,000 square feet of photographic paper ?and counting. That’s what NASA has burned through printing otherworldly, super-sized pictures of Mars that are sent to dozens of museums, many of which display them immediately. It’s part of NASA’s aggressive effort to promote interest in the Red Planet and the agency’s stunning photos...
- FEB 03, 2004 NASA Twin Rovers Analyze Mars Surface - NASA's twin rovers reached out to scoop and analyze the martian surface some 6,600 miles apart, both machines using their robotic arms as intended following a software glitch. "We have two operational rovers on Mars," mission manager Jennifer Trosper told a Monday news conference at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
- Jan. 28, 2004 Life once existed on Mars, Australian scientists say - Australian scientists believe they have found evidence that life once existed on Mars. They have found that microscopic fossils of primitive bacteria-like organisms in a Mars meteorite match characteristics of bacteria found in mud in Queensland...
- Jan. 27, 2004 NASA Says Second Mars Rover Experiencing Problems - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As NASA scientists pored over striking new photos from Mars revealing finely layered formations of ancient bedrock, engineers labored on Tuesday to diagnose problems with two robotic rovers on opposite sides of the Red Planet...
- Jan. 26, 2004 Amazing Photos From Mars - The second Mars rover (Opportunity), has landed in a crater on Mars and is sending Earth some amazing photos...
- Jan. 25, 2004 Second Mars Rover Sends Pictures to Earth - PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's Opportunity rover zipped its first pictures of Mars to Earth early Sunday, delighting and puzzling scientists just hours after the spacecraft bounced to a landing on the opposite side of the red planet from its twin rover, Spirit. The pictures showed a surface smooth and dark red in some places, and strewn with fragmented slabs of light bedrock in others. Bounce marks apparently left by the rover's air bags when it landed were clearly visible...
- Jan. 23, 2004 NASA Scrambles to Diagnose Rover Signal Problems - NASA scientists on Thursday scrambled to find out what had gone wrong with the Mars rover Spirit after 24 hours of garbled communications and intermittent silence caused by an unknown malfunction. The scientists reported that at 9 a.m. PST (noon EST) on Thursday Spirit had radioed a signal indicating it was receiving Earth transmissions even though it had not resumed sending data back to Earth..
- Jan. 22, 2004 NASA Team Loses Contact with Mars Rover - PASADENA - NASA scientists said on Thursday that they had lost contact with the robot rover Spirit on Mars and were unsure what had caused the problem. Spirit project manager Pete Theisinger told a news briefing that there was a "very serious anomaly" in communications with the six-wheeled craft, which landed on Mars on Jan. 3 on a planned three month mission to explore the geologic history of the planet...
- Jan. 20, 2004 Mars Rover Takes 'Sunday Drive' Across Red Planet - After a weekend of driving that took it about 10 feet across the surface of Mars, the Spirit rover was parked on Monday in front of a rock that NASA scientists plan to study for much of the next week....
- Jan. 15, 2004 NASA Rover Rolls Off Lander and Onto Mars - The Spirit rover successfully rolled onto Mars early Thursday, placing its six wheels on solid martian ground for the first time since the robot bounced down on the Red Planet nearly two weeks ago...
- Jan. 14, 2004 `Bizarre' images of Mars sent by rover - PASADENA, Calif. ?NASA's Spirit rover has rolled for the first time since reaching Mars, backing up 10 inches atop its platform as it began to reposition itself in preparation for exploring the Red Planet's surface later this week. "Spirit is a rover," flight director Chris Lewicki said Tuesday. The six-wheeled robot, which previously stood up from a crouched position, had otherwise been largely immobile since landing Jan. 3...
- Jan. 7, 2004 `Bizarre' images of Mars sent by rover - The first color photography of the Spirit mission, made public on Tuesday, showed that the robotic rover was resting on a broad, ruddy plain of Mars among gray rocks of all sizes and shapes, streaks of windblown dust tracks, a patch of cohesive soil that looks like mud but cannot be and hills set against a pink sky on the distant horizon. Scientists used words like "bizarre" and "shock and awe" to describe the scene. Planners of the exploring excursions, set to begin early next week, saw nothing on the landscape to impede the 180kg, six-wheel rover's wide-ranging maneuvers....
- NASA Unveils Color Snapshot of Mars - PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA unveiled a breathtaking color snapshot Tuesday of the surface of Mars shot by its Spirit rover using a camera with the robotic equivalent of 20/20 vision. The new color image is the sharpest photograph ever taken on the surface of Mars. NASA scientists called the picture a "postcard," sent across 105 million miles of space to Earth from its Spirit rover...
- Rover Yields 3-D, 360-Degree View of Mars - PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Combining 21st-century rocket science and 1950s B-movie technology, NASA on Monday released a 3-D, black-and-white panoramic picture of the bleak surface of Mars snapped by the newly landed rover Spirit...
- NASA Releases Color Photos From Mars - PASADENA, Calif. ?NASA proudly showed off on Monday thumbnails of the initial color photographs shot of Mars from its Spirit rover ?the first taken of the planet in seven years....
- Mars Rover Has Simple Sundial Technology - HONOLULU - The advanced technology of the Mars Rover came fully equipped with one of the simplest devices imaginable ?a tiny sundial that can tell time on both Mars and Earth...
- Healthy Rover Shows its New Neighborhood on Mars - NASA's Spirit Rover is starting to examine its new surroundings, revealing a vast flatland well suited to the robot's unprecedented mobility and scientific toolkit...
- Mars Photos - Raw photo feeds from NASA as they come in...
- Missions to Mars show the limitations of robotics - One of the arguments wielded against human exploration of space is that almost all research and discovery can be done with automated machinery, robots and remote control. The apparent silence of Europe's first Mars lander, if it doesn't argue to the contrary, provides yet another cautionary tale...
- NASA - Spirit from Earth Lands on Mars... Latest News on mission...
- Spirit's First Images of the Red Planet - PASADENA, Calif. -- "What a night," said Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator for Spirit from Cornell University. "Spirit has shown us her new home, Gusev Crater. It’s a glorious place…a wonderful place from a science perspective," he said in a midnight press event at JPL...
- U.S. Rover Calls Home, Beams Back Color Photos - Jan. 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. robotic probe Spirit beamed panoramic color images of unprecedented clarity back to Earth Sunday after establishing direct contact with NASA scientists guiding its search for ancient signs of life on Mars.
- Destination: Gusev Crater - Spirit's landing site was chosen because of the strong evidence that water once flowed there...
- Mars May Be Emerging from an Ice Age - NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey missions have provided evidence of a recent ice age on Mars. In contrast to Earth's ice ages, a martian ice age waxes when the poles warm up and water vapor is transported toward lower latitudes. Martian ice ages wane when the poles cool and lock water into polar icecaps...
- Mars, Stars, and Life's Origins - Humans on their tiny planet have found a stellar way to usher in a new year, if not a new era. In recent days, they've successfully probed the planet Mars, a comet, and the galaxies in separate attempts to discover the essential ingredients for organic life beyond Earth...
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