Earlier telescopes had difficulty in detecting the Martian storms which covered the barren planet with its bright, oxidized Martian soils. Dust devils whipped apart the soil-covered plains, revealing darker, sub-surface soil—with the Martian winds making the planet much warmer as its own climate change was developing. Not related to our own greenhouse climate changes or driven [...]
“The tests we have done in our test facility during the past few days show the robotic arm can deliver the simulated Martian soil through the opening with the doors in this configuration,” said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, Tucson, lead scientist for TEGA. “We plan to save the cells where doors can [...]
According to astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross, “NASA has a shot at discovering life’s remains on Mars.” The scientist notes that, “Just as meteors travel from Mars to Earth so also do they travel from Earth to Mars. Over the past four billion years, at least several billion tons of Earth material, much of it life-carrying [...]
Thursday, June 19, 2008, was the day that NASA scientists and the University of Arizona’s Phoenix Lander mission team have been waiting for, a day when newly found ice layers on Mars offer to the world actual scientific evidence there has been water on the red planet at some time, handing over the golden key [...]
The Martian area by the name of “Wonderland” received the attention of the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander on Tuesday, which began digging by taking its first scoop of soil from the NASA called “national park” regions which the mission scientists have been preserving for science.
The test trench, “Snow White” was created by the robotic arm [...]
“I am excited about the new partnership between NASA and Oceaneering,” said Glenn Lutz, project manager for the spacesuit system at Johnson. “Now it is time for our spacesuit team to begin the journey together that ultimately will put new sets of boot prints on the moon.”
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With the new space developments by Oceaneering International Inc. [...]
”It’s been more than 11 years since we had the idea to send a microscope to Mars and I’m absolutely gobsmacked that we’re now looking at the soil of Mars at a resolution that has never been seen before,” said Tom Pike of Imperial College London. He is a Phoenix co-investigator working on the lander’s [...]
“What we found was that although we had an awful lot of dirt on that screen, almost none of it made it down into the oven,” said TEGA co-investigator William Boynton, of the University of Arizona.
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After such a successful trip and landing on Mars, it would seem that the NASA Mars Phoenix Mission would be [...]
“We’re a little surprised at how much this material is clumping together when we dig into it,” said Doug Ming a Phoenix science team member from NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston.
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A new revision of delivering soil samples to the Phoenix laboratory instruments has been done by the Arizona University engineers, while operating on the Robotic [...]
On Sunday, spacewalkers Michael Fossum and Ronald Garan pressurized the International Space Station’s ammonia cooling lines by replacing a nitrogen tank about the size of a refrigerator tank. Toting the empty 550 pound tank out and then bringing in a full one, Garan was able to see Earth from an excellent viewpoint as [...]
