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such as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope or a new Mars lander -- are running far above the funds available from the White House or Congress. ... and more »

Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech) LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - The Mars Rover Spirit hasn't budged a centimeter for three months. The rover has been buried up to its ... and more »

It is engineering to the rescue again, this time courtesy of NASA: Aerogel, the compound created to keep the Mars Rover from incinerating, is liberally ...

Groundbreaking research can occur without humans -- witness the Mars Rover and Hubble telescope. NASA should not have to sacrifice programs that are truly ... and more »

Aerojet's Propulsion Critical to Delta II Launch of Air Force ... PR Newswire (press release) as well as the Phoenix Mars Lander, the recent NASA Kepler mission, THEMIS, MESSENGER and the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) spacecraft, to name a few. ... and more »

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26 (UPI) -- NASA says its Mars rover Spirit, which has been stuck in loose martian sand since April, is losing power due to a dust storm that's blocking its ... NASA Adds 2nd Test Rover to Help Free SpiritRobots.net Mars rover still stuck in martian sandUnited Press International

The exhibit also features an interactive Mars rover that can be operated by remote control just like NASA does it, a space capsule simulator visitors can ... and more »

A group of us including our fearless expedition leaders, the Mars rover crew from NASA JPL, members of the Slice team from NASA Goddard, the Life Marker ...

 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 ...

 MD Alexandra was also one of nine finalists in the NASA "Name the next Mars Rover" competition, a national contest drawing 9000 entries. Alexandra chose the name "Vision" and was happy to participate although she was not the winning entry. ...

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 »

From space, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter takes a closer look at four possible landing sites for NASA’s next Mars rover. NASA EDGE: STS-125 ... www.channels.com

 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. ...

Schuerger's past research found at least 13 separate factors on Mars that can kill Earth microbes, not counting perchlorate salts uncovered by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in the polar region of Mars. Still, current NASA missions to Mars take precautions ...

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: NASA experts are taking fuzzy pictures and testing different recipes for Red Planet dirt as they try to get a stuck Mars rover moving again.

  MA Marchant's understanding of how buried ice deforms the Earth's surface in Antarctica helped NASA scientists guide the Phoenix Mars Lander to the sample of Martian ice that it scooped up last summer. In addition, Marchant and researchers from Brown ...

National's highly reliable products were used in 32 NASA programs, including the Venus probe and the Mars Rover, which is still roving the surface and sending back photos today. The PC era drove the next significant growth phase for the industry. ...

 CA By JIM SULLINGER Curiosity" and a stellar essay have landed a 12-year-old Kansas girl the honor of naming NASA's next Mars rover. NASA announced Wednesday that Clara Ma, a sixth-grader at Sunflower Elementary School in Lenexa, Kan., and her suggested ...

The Moscow Times  IL The pending retirement of the current space shuttle fleet is on the horizon, so each NASA mission to space remains extremely important. The US space agency finally named the Mars Science Laboratory, its next Mars rover, with help from sixth-grader ...

Among the 50 minutes of bonus features are an original NASA newsreel of the Apollo 11 moon landing and a Mars Rover landing animation—both best suited for a much older audience—as well as a segment from Activity TV on how to make sock puppy puppets and ...

 CA KSC's energy from space NASA Kennedy space center is getting a little greener with construction of solar arrays which will power some 1000 homes and part of the space center. Flagship Mars Rover Gets Name: Curiosity A young lady who lives in my area ...

 MO Curiosity" and a stellar essay have landed a 12-year-old Kansas girl the honor of naming NASA's next Mars rover. NASA announced Wednesday that Clara Ma, a sixth-grader at Sunflower Elementary School in Lenexa, Kan., and her suggested name, Curiosity, ...

 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 ...

 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. ...

 CA Ihde showed photos taken by the Mars Phoenix Lander and mentioned JPL's plans to launch another Mars rover in two years. The reception also included astronaut snacks, such as the Styrofoam-like space ice cream and Tang, made popular by NASA astronauts ...

By JIM SULLINGER “I was really surprised and really excited,” Lenexa sixth-grader Clara Ma says of winning a NASA contest to name the new Mars rover. “Curiosity” and a stellar essay have landed a 12-year-old Lenexa girl the honor of naming NASA's next ...

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 PA Ma's name suggestion was picked from 9000 submitted to NASA in a nationwide contest. Her prize is a trip to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, where she will sign her name on the rover. The six-wheeled Curiosity, designated the Mars Science ...

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 said. Now her signature will travel to the Red Planet on the largest and most sophisticated rover ever sent to Mars. ... Switched - NASA

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 ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY National's highly reliable products were used in 32 NASA programs, including the Venus probe and the Mars Rover, which is still roving the surface and sending back photos today. The PC era drove the next significant growth phase for the industry. ...

The last time I checked, we hadn’t put a man on Mars…… So who’s been cleaning the Mars “Opportunity” rover? According to the NASA rover team ... bretthenebery.wordpress.com

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Controversies now surround the space agency, mostly regarding its new Mars rover and the tremendous costs involved with retiring the shuttle fleet by 2010 and completing Project Constellation by 2015. If confirmed, Bolden will occupy this position in ...

 Sri Lanka Java is the programming language used by NASA for Mars exploration satellite and Mars Rover mission. Not only that, but Java is the programming language for future mobile devices like mobile phones and PDA computers. The upcoming mCommerce market will ...

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for an ambitious digging ... fr.truveo.com

PASADENA, Calif., May 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its Mars rover Opportunity has recorded environmental changes that occurred during ... www.upi.com

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The Spirit Mars rover has been stuck in the red planet's soil for a couple of weeks, so NASA is trying out a bunch of procedures--some involving other Mars craft--in order to figure out how to best extract Spirit from its predicament. ... NASA Works To Free Mars Rover Spirit OfficialWire

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Spirit took this image with its front hazard-avoidance camera on Day 1899 of its mission. NASA is pulling out all the stops to try to get the mired Spirit rover out of the Martian sand and rolling again. NASA's rover project team is using the Spirit ...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory  NY by OfficialWire NewsDesk PASADENA, CA — (OfficialWire) — 05/19/09 — The US space agency says it's considering the best maneuvers for freeing the Mars rover Spirit that's become immobilized in soft martian soil. The National Aeronautics and Space ...

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by Staff The US space agency says it's considering the best maneuvers for freeing the Mars rover Spirit that's become immobilized in soft martian soil. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said a diagnostic test conducted Saturday provided ...

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 Ohio The US space agency says it's considering the best maneuvers for freeing the Mars rover Spirit that's become immobilized in soft martian soil. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said a diagnostic test conducted Saturday provided ...

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory 18, 2004, three days after it successfully rolled off the lander. (UPI Photo/NASA/JPL) | Enlarge PASADENA, Calif., May 19 (UPI) -- The US space agency says it's considering the best maneuvers for freeing the Mars rover Spirit, which has become ...

A NASA Mars rover is stuck in a patch of soft ground and scientists are not sure they can get it out. feeds.nytimes.com

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 India At NASA, the students were introduced to rocket science, presentation, training of astronauts, project work, rocket building and launching, designing of Mars Rover, and building of International Space Station. Interaction with space scientists, ...

 United States The Mars rover Spirit has become stuck in loose dirt while ambling around a low plateau, NASA said last week. NASA is working to free the 5-year-old machine, which has far outlasted its primary three-month mission. Zoos in the United States, ...

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Tweet to Earth: 'Launch was awesome!!' Then the message is passed along to Massimino's Twitter account by NASA. The space agency has also created Twitter accounts for many of its space missions, including a popular Twitter feed that was ghost-written for the Phoenix Mars Lander. ...

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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 ...

Boston (dbTechno) - NASA has a major problem on their hands as the Mars rover Spirit is stuck in the soft soil of the red planet. The Mars rover Spirit has managed to sink into the ground on the planet, with the wheels becoming stuck. ... Mars rover Spirit is stuck in sand Los Angeles Times

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 MD PASADENA, Calif. - The Mars rover Spirit has become stuck in loose dirt while ambling around a low plateau, NASA said yesterday. The rover slipped during a recent series of backward drives and its wheels were stuck halfway in the ground. ...

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 United States By ERIC BERGER The Mars rover Spirit has become stuck in soft Martian dirt while driving along a low plateau. NASA officials said Monday that engineers had temporarily stopped sending driving commands to Spirit while they diagnose the problem. ...

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gt;The long-lived Mars rover Spirit is stuck in the sand on Mars, and controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., are scrambling to extricate the vehicle before it becomes entombed on the Red Planet. ... NASA Mars Rover Spirit Stuck In The Soft Soil Of Red Planet dBT...

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 AZ PASADENA — The Mars rover Spirit has become stuck in loose dirt while ambling around a low plateau, NASA said Monday. The rover slipped during a recent series of backward drives and its wheels were stuck halfway in the ground. A team at NASA's Jet ...

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 FL NASA/JPL via Getty Images) PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The Mars rover Spirit has gotten stuck in soft Martian dirt while driving along a low plateau. NASA said Monday that engineers have temporarily stopped sending driving commands to Spirit while they ...

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 NV AP) - The Mars rover Spirit is stuck in soft Martian soil while driving along a low plateau. NASA said Monday engineers have temporarily stopped sending driving commands to Spirit while they diagnose the problem. The six-wheeled Spirit has five ...

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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 NASA has recently been making a big push in using modern consumer technology, the web, and social sites to reach a broader audience. Yesterday it launched a collection of very impressive Photosynth galleries of the ISS and Mars Rover. ...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Deadline Nears for Student Contest to Name NASA's Next Mars Rover  TX Scientists Find 'Missing' Mineral and Clues to Mars Mysteries Elites TV NASA Releases Interactive 3-D Views of Space Station, New Mars Rover Elites TV

This same engine has supported launches of critical missions such as the NASA missions -- MESSENGER, Phoenix Mars Lander, GLAST, THEMIS, STEREO, Deep Impact and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) spacecraft -- and the USAF Global Positioning System ...

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 UK This same engine has supported launches of critical missions such as the NASA missions — MESSENGER, Phoenix Mars Lander, GLAST, THEMIS, STEREO, Deep Impact and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) spacecraft — and the USAF Global Positioning System (GPS) ...

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PR Newswire (press release), NY This same engine has supported launches of critical missions such as the NASA missions -- MESSENGER, Phoenix Mars Lander, GLAST, THEMIS, STEREO, Deep Impact and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) spacecraft -- and the USAF Global Positioning System ...

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This June 2008 NASA photos show the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander carrying a scoop full of Martian soil. NASA has announced they will be extending the Phoenix mission until the end of September after the lander recently found evidence of ...

 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 ...

You've no doubt seen some of the incredible "postcards" the Mars Rover has been sending since landing on the Red Planet in early January. Ever ... it.truveo.com

At the ripe old age of five the Mars rover Spirit is starting to show signs of its age, and NASA scientists are beginning to wonder how much longer it can continue to roll across the Red Planet. Over the past few weeks the rover once ignored its ... Mars Rover Spirit Has More Problems Post Chronicle

 MN AP This artist's rendering released by NASA shows the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory on the surface of Mars. The rovers have performed admirably and made the investment in this exploration worth the cost. However, all such projects reach a point … read ...

 DC After five years, the Mars rover Spirit is still sending NASA scientists data intermittently, long after its three-month mission was supposed to end. Despite mechanical and computer problems, the rover continues to crawl across the Home Plate plateau, ...

 New Zealand For both Epic models, GigaPan utilised technology originally developed by NASA for the Mars Rover to bring advanced high-resolution photography to a wide market. Thousands of GigaPan images are available to explore on the sharing site, ...

 la “It’s possible we will simulate the Mars Rover that NASA has in place and have it be autonomous, meaning we won’t be putting our hands on it, but operating it from a computer,” said RHS teacher Missy Wooley, who will teach the course. ...

For both Epic models, GigaPan utilized technology originally developed by NASA for the Mars Rover to bring advanced high-resolution photography to a wide market. With the Epic and Epic 100, amateur and professional photographers can create visually ...

 TX By BETH FOLEY When was the last time a scientific balloon beat out a Mars rover in popularity? Thanks to a new NASA online game, it’s happened. Taking a page out of the NCAA’s playbook, NASA this year posted its own version of college basketball’s ...

Internships at JPL helped one woman build her career as a software engineer working on robotics. credit: NASA www.redorbit.com

 Romania By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor According to the latest researches coming in from NASA, the Phoenix Mars Lander may have descended right in the middle of a terrain that is extremely microbe-friendly. The most recent investigations seem to hint at the ...

 CA This same engine has supported past launches of Global Positioning System satellites as well as the Phoenix Mars Lander, the recent NASA Kepler mission, THEMIS, MESSENGER and the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) spacecraft, to name a few. ...

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CBC.ca  NY In any case, Mars enthusiasts need not fret during the wait -- a delayed mission sits a long ways from a failed mission. And like the Phoenix Mars Lander, MSL will Twitter away between sampling runs to keep netizens updated. NASA only recently closed ...

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

 MA The Mars Rover takes pictures of Mars. The rover is trying to find out if there is any life on Mars. When a rocket ship goes around the earth it is going so fast that the astronauts see the sun set and rise every half an hour. ...

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for an ambitious digging ... it.truveo.com

Other notable Delta II launches include critical NASA missions such as the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, MESSENGER, Phoenix Mars Lander, GLAST, THEMIS, STEREO and Deep Impact, as well as the USAF Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIR fleet ...

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NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, along with the Phoenix Mars Lander, were launched by Delta II. Additionally, NASA missions such as Mars Odyssey, Messenger, Dawn, GLAST, and THEMIS all began their journeys on a Delta II. ...

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PR Newswire (press release), NY Other notable Delta II missions include critical NASA missions such as the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, MESSENGER, Phoenix Mars Lander, GLAST, THEMIS, STEREO, Deep Impact and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) spacecraft, as well as the USAF ...

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 MA - Feb 13, 2009 She took over the seat vacated by Samuel Kounaves who resigned from his position to work on the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Mission. Kathleen Bodie who served ...

NASA Receives Shorty Twitter Award NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander ceased communications Nov. 2 after successfully returning unprecedented science data to Earth. Launched Aug. 4, 2007, Phoenix safely touched down on Mars on May 25, 2008, at a site farther north than where any previous ...

 NY The next-generation Mars rover may be a rough-and-tumble robot that can roll down steep slopes, clamber over rocks, and can even be lowered down cliff faces into deep craters. The prototype, called Axel, takes its name from its simple design–a single ...

 Romania By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor On Saturday, experts at NASA finally resumed breathing, after the Mars rover Spirit eventually snapped out of its mysterious set of problems and started moving on the Martian surface again, following several days of not ...

 NY The show is well-written and acted, has a half dozen funny one-liners per episode, and delivers a weekly helping of science and nerd culture in-jokes. In a recent episode, Howard the NASA scientist erased several hours of data from the Mars Rover after ...

He then moved to California to work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Mars rover and sample return programs until late 1979. He also earned another master's degree, in electrical engineering, from the University of Southern California in 1979. ...

This name would also honor Beagle 2, the Mars rover built by the European Space Agency, but lost in 2003. Next week will see the closing of the contest, ... On This Day: Second NASA Rover Lands on Mars findingDulcinea NASA Marshall Scientist Guides Mars Rover 'Spirit' Space Ref (press release)

Deadline Nears for Student Contest to Name NASA's Next Mars Rover PR Newswire (press release), NY - 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is issuing a last call to the nation's youth for entries in a contest to name the agency's next Mars rover. ...

 MA - Dec 8, 2008 NASA also has plans to try and make contact with the Phoenix Mars lander this coming Spring. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites ...

Cool stuff | NASA is looking for a name for the next Mars rover, officially called the Mars Science Laboratory. They've decided to have a contest, and it's open to school ch.

By Andru Edwards It would appear that the Phoenix has ceased to exist. NASA last heard from the Mars lander Nov. 2 and suspected that the decreasing sunshine was not sufficient for the solar arrays to charge. In all, the lander operated for about 5 months. The project’s team are still monitoring the craft in hop...

By Joshua Topolsky Anthropomorphized Mars lander in terminal "Groundhog Day" mode, tugging heartstrings (8 days ago - 45 Comments); SpaceX slated to transport cargo and crew on Falcon 9 (44 days ago - 19 Comments); Circuit City files for bankruptcy (4 ...

NASA Mard lander freezes to death NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has stopped sending signals back to Earth after five months. Scientists believe it has likely frozen to the robot equivalent of death. The lander’s demise was pretty much ...

By Jesus Diaz When I read that the UFO-looking Mars Science Laboratory's aeroshell would use a floating crane—called Sky Crane by NASA—to softly land the rover on Mars, I couldn't believe it. Now, watching this hyperrealistic NASA simulation showing ...

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 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 kmw@reason.com (Katherine Mangu-Ward) Second Life is "a natural test bed for building scientifically accurate representations of other worlds, based on data flowing in from interplanetary probes." Said one NASA Second Lifer: "Imagine your online 'avatar' standing beside a rover as it makes its way across the Martian surfa...

By Simon Barrett In true MacGyver form, the members on the ill fated Apollo 13 mission created a CO2 scrubber using household objects, including Duct Tape! Yes folks, no NASA mission would be complete without a couple of rolls of Duct Tape. One of NASA’s major concerns is to try and come up with canned solu...