Mars rover

 DC Clara Ma (in front) with Suparna Mukherjee, Julie Townsend, Jaime Waydo (in back row) are featured here in the laboratory where an engineering model of the next Mars rover, Curiosity, is being tested. Ma won an essay contest and named the rover. ...

A rover set to explore Mars in seven years will lack a major piece of monitoring equipment because of a budget squeeze, an official from the European Space Agency said Tuesday. The ExoMars rover scheduled to land on the Red Planet's surface in 2016 ...

 France LE BOURGET, France (AFP)--NASA is likely to shoulder a major chunk of a planned unmanned European mission to Mars that has been troubled by rows over design and budget, the European Space Agency, or ESA, said on Monday. The ExoMars mission ...

While the rover's landing site won't be as far north as was the Phoenix Mars Lander's (which landed last summer in the arctic plains of Mars), it will be further north of NASA's two rovers currently on the Martian surface, Spirit and Opportunity. ... Inside the rover factory msnbc.com

 CA Another former student is working in the Jet Propulsion Lab for NASA and is part of the Mars Rover Team. “I have a very laid-back style. I really try to take the time to get to know each child and what makes that child tick,” Uppman said. ...

 CT There is even a set up for the Mars Rover; you can sit and see what the Mars Rover is seeing. "We have the worlds first real-time flyover," said Wartner. "We are getting live data feeds directly from outer space, via NASA, and for the first time ...

 DC Clara Ma, 12, of Lenexa, Kans., submitted an essay that won a national contest for naming the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. The rover has been named Curiosity, as this sixth-grader from Sunflower Elementary School proposed in the ...

Development of Yardney's first major lithium-ion battery began in 1998 when the company won a contract to develop a battery for a planned NASA Mars lander. ... and more »

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 NY By Freakonomics NASA research suggests that there may be life on Mars after all — but that, up 'til now, we've been destroying it when we visit. (Does this hurt the case for space exploration?) As New Scientist tells the tale, The Phoenix Mars lander, ...

 VA NASA has enough features on its Website to keep virtual space travelers busy for some time. In May, the agency added to its world-class content arsenal with some new dynamic interactive views of the International Space Station and the Mars Rover. ...

Winter is coming and Spirit is trapped out of the sustaining light of the sun. Five Years on Mars : SUN NOVEMBER 2 8P et/pt : http://channel ... it.truveo.com

The Moscow Times The US space agency finally named the Mars Science Laboratory, its next Mars rover, with help from sixth-grader Clara Ma. The new rover -- scheduled to ... This Week In Space: The Late Great Planet EarthDaily Kos all 35 news articles »

 Romania I thought that I would never be able to get close to it, so for me, naming the Mars rover would at least be one step closer,” she added. “Students from every state suggested names for this rover. That's testimony to the excitement Mars missions spark ...

 CA This looks like more confirmation of what was earlier reported (see "Scientists: Phoenix Mars Lander Found Liquid Water.", 'Americans in Space', Mar 10, 2009) by scientists about the Mars water issue. By trying to closely replicate conditions on Mars ...

 NY NASA has selected a sixth-grade student's entry and named its new Mars Rover Curiosity. 12-year-old Clara Ma has won a trip to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., where she will be able to sign the rover as it is being built. ...

I thought that I would never be able to get close to it, so for me, naming the Mars rover would at least be one step closer." "Curiosity is an everlasting flame that burns in everyone's mind. It makes me get out of bed in the morning and wonder what ...

 KS WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Kansas sixth-grade student has won a contest to name NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover. Clara Ma, a 12-year-old from the Sunflower Elementary school in Lenexa, submitted the winning name, "Curiosity. ...

NASA's next rover, the Mars Science Laboratory, finally has its new name: Curiosity. The name comes courtesy of Clara Ma, a 12-year-old sixth-grade student at Sunflower Elementary school in Lenexa, Kan.

UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg) | Enlarge PASADENA, Calif., May 27 (UPI) -- The US space agency says its new Mars rover finally has a name thanks to 12-year-old Clara Ma from a Lenexa, Kan., elementary school. The new National Aeronautics and Space ...

 Romania By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor A growing number of space experts believe that they may have been going about finding life on Mars the wrong way. They argue that landers such as the twin Vikings and the Phoenix Mars Lander may have unwillingly destroyed ...

 CA We are all over our solar system... we have 2 functioning rovers on Mars since (gasp) 2004! That's 5 years! Doing amazing science. Space is hard. We're just coming up on the 1-year anniversary of the Phoenix Mars Lander mission, which plunked itself ...

 Romania The theory was confirmed by the Phoenix Mars Lander, which acquired the first samples on location, as it descended on the planet's surface. The probe also hinted at the fact that salts in the soils must have allowed the water to remain liquid at ...

NASA teamed up once again with Microsoft to offer online users two new three-dimensional, interactive tours – one of the orbiting outpost and another of the next Mars rover. Space enthusiasts can see and interact with photos of the station and the ...

PASADENA, Calif., May 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its Mars rover Spirit is facing a dangerous situation, slipping in soft soil with its ... www.upi.com

The Mars rover Spirit has gotten stuck in soft Martian dirt while driving along a low plateau.

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 CA Well, now you can access the space exploration experience without leaving your chair, thanks to the NASA and its new interactive photographic collection of internal and external views of the ISS and the next Mars rover. The interactive tour was ...

 CA The UK has both world-class expertise in the study of meteorites and experience in the area of "planetary protection" gained during its preparations for the failed Beagle 2 Mars lander mission. In July last year, Esa awarded a team led by aerospace and ...

ASU planetary scientist Phil Christensen, who has been playing key roles on NASA's Mars Odyssey mission as well as the Mars rover missions, says the geological effects seen to date could have been created by liquid water over a time span of hundreds or ...

 NY One local second grader needs your help naming the next Mars rover Adia, from the Town of Ava, is a finalist in a national contest NASA is putting on. She wants the next Mars rover to be named Amelia, after Amelia Earhart. ...

I just checked out the NASA effort to get the public involved in the project to send its new rover to Mars and have hot news about why you should vote to name the rover. Eight out of the nine name choices are borrrrrrring, but one is highly ... Vote In Mars Rover Naming Contest WDIV

 FL It’sa bit like that with the Mars lander, some believe. According to Scientific American’s Web site: A team of researchers analyzing images and data gathered by the now-defunct Phoenix spacecraft believes that the lander spotted liquid water on ...

 UK - Jan 31, 2009 Tom Haylock, who specialises in what he terms ‘human systems integration’, is developing a Mars rover out in the desert. Simply being around like-minded ...

By Sharon Begley The two Mars rovers that have been investigating the geology (areology?) of the red planet since soon after they landed on opposite sides of Mars in 2004 have nice, safe names that combine solidity and seriousness with a soupcon of inspiration: Spirit and Opportunity. Can you do better?

By Laura June Dear Phoenix lander, you always find new ways to both delight and torture us. We listened anxiously for your updates about the weather on Mars, watched you "think" your way out of nearly fatal situations, and marveled at your liquid discoveries. It seems like only yesterday we were prepari...

By Nancy Atkinson It appears the end is nigh for the Phoenix Mars Lander. Today, engineers have begun to shut down some of the lander's instruments and heaters. But this is in hopes of extending the mission by saving power as available sunlight begins to wane with the approach of Martian autumn. But at the [...]

By Ian O'Neill Was there a third Martian moon orbiting the planet? Did Phobos and Deimos have a triplet sibling? According to the discovery of two elliptical impact craters, there might just have been another moon, but it ploughed into the Red Planet's surface a long time ago. The moonlet would have been...

By Ian O'Neill As the Phoenix Mars lander will agree, it's cold near Mars' North Pole. Phoenix is currently seeing the winter frost encroach on its location, bright patches of ice appearing on the rocks surrounding it. Another sure sign of winter at this high latitude is the loss of light; soon day will tur...

By Nancy Atkinson The Mars Science Laboratory, a souped-up Mars rover scheduled to launch next year might be delayed, scaled down or canceled due to technical problems and cost overruns. The nuclear powered rover designed to search for microbial life on the Red Planet, has already cost $1.5 billion and if i...

By Stephanie Patterson You know those insect-like micro air vehicles (MAV) we've been seeing? Well, the ExoFly aerobot is based on that camera-equipped DelFly design, only this time it's gearing up for a trip to Mars -- maybe even Titan or Venus. Turns out flapping-wing flight is perfect for the low-density Mar...

Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic plains in May on a three-month mission to study whether the environment could be friendly to microbial life. One of its biggest discoveries so far is confirming the presence of ice on the planet. NASA extended the three-month mission through the end of t...

By kevin@aylwardfamily.com (Wizbang) Play clip. Play clip. Play clip. Play clip. It's dangerous. Play clip. Play clip. Play clip. Play clip. I'm no fan of Mike Huckabee. His stand on taxation and big government drive me up the wall. Take this interchange during the CNN-YouTube debate on the question of federal support for a trip to Mars.

By Tim Cavanaugh The goal, according to NASA's Chris McKay and U of M's Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez, is to use trees as "the engines of the biosphere" to pump "powerful gases," with the goal of bringing human-caused global warming to the cold and thin atmosphere of the Red Planet.

The Phoenix Mars Mission may answer some ageold questions Is Mars suitable for life? And if its not now, was it ever? v Voyage of the Mars probe v Look inside the Mission s The Phoenix Mars Mission program

By Regine Back to my notes from Biorama, a one day event organized by Capsula and the Digital Research Unit on July 13 in Huddersfield. The event brought together an exciting bunch of artists whose work explores notions of life, science and digital realities. Biorama (Part 1)

By asa(asa@mozilla.org) update: From images and data gathered by the amazing Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, here's a glimpse of where Opportunity sits, on the edge of Victoria Crater, awaiting an opportunity to descend. Comments for "opportunity riding the storm out"

Visitors looking to take a trip out of this world, explore the stars and make a stop on Mars can do so this week at the 9th annual AstroFest. AstroFest begins tomorrow and lasts until Saturday in Davey Laboratory. Chris Palma, outreach fellow for the Eberly College of Science, said the event h...

By Leonard David NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover has a tough assignment ahead - perhaps driving down into the large Victoria crater that it’s presently surveying. But before “wheels down” into Victoria, a careful safety review that involves NASA Headquarters must conclude that the trip is doable. That’s...

By John Vaccaro The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft unexpectedly lost radio contact in November, 2006.  When attempts to reconnect with MGS were unsuccessful, NASA convened an internal review board. The board was formed to determine why NASA's Mars Global Surveyor went silent and to make recomm...

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) If you want to get a good view of something, you'll want a big telescope, or you want to get close. NASA has decided to both, equipping its new Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with the largest spacecraft telescope ever built, and then flying it closer to Mars than any previous spacecraft. This te...