Deep space probe vehicle to be based on Orion - Oman Tribune

31 May 2011 Posted in Mars News

DailyTech
Deep space probe vehicle to be based on Orion
Oman Tribune
“Nasa is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated on March 22, 2010,” it said. Spirit was only supposed to endure for three months but carried on a bountiful career that lasted more …
Deep space vehicle to use Orion designsDaily News - Galveston County
NASA's Next Crew Vehicle Will be Based on OrionUniverse Today
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Planetary Radio Scattered Clouds and Fog…On Mars - The Planetary Society

31 May 2011 Posted in Mars News
Planetary Radio Scattered Clouds and Fog…On Mars
The Planetary Society
He has become an expert on Martian weather and climate. Bill Nye is also talking about the weather — the wild weather we've been having on Earth. Emily Lakdawalla looks back on Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, and Bruce Betts is back with a new space …

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One-way ticket to Mars - Washington Post

31 May 2011 Posted in Mars News
One-way ticket to Mars
Washington Post
“Just like with earlier explorers, they are prepared to set out knowing they won't come back, but willing to do it because their time on Mars would be so remarkable.” The idea, which is clearly not what NASA managers have in mind for Mars exploration, …

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Rendezvous with an asteroid - Arizona State University

31 May 2011 Posted in Mars News

National Geographic
Rendezvous with an asteroid
Arizona State University
The device is a modified version of the highly successful miniature infrared spectrometers carried on Spirit and Opportunity, NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers. The new asteroid sample-return mission is called OSIRIS-REx, an acronym standing for …
Ariz. State to be part of asteroid missionUPI.com
NASA Plans Asteroid Sample ReturnAviation Week
UA is Top University Contributing to Global Planetary Exploration ResearchUA News (press release)
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ESA Cleared To Restart Work on 2016 Mars Mission - Space News

30 May 2011 Posted in Mars News

Space News
ESA Cleared To Restart Work on 2016 Mars Mission
Space News
PARIS — The European Space Agency (ESA) on May 26 gave a sufficiently strong endorsement of a redesigned Mars exploration program with NASA to permit contract payments to restart in July, ESA officials said, adding that the new …

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An Epitaph for Rover Spirit (2004-2010) - SkyandTelescope.com

30 May 2011 Posted in Mars News

BBC News
An Epitaph for Rover Spirit (2004-2010)
SkyandTelescope.com
This bird's-eye view combines a self-portrait of the spacecraft deck and a panoramic mosaic of the Martian surface as viewed by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. It is with a bittersweet sense of both sadness and pride that NASA …
NASA Declares Spirit Mars Rover Gone - but not ForgottenTMC Net
Would you go to Mars, knowing you'd (probably) never come back?Vancouver Sun
JPL pulls plug on Mars roverValley Sun
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Mobility in Robotic Space

24 May 2011 Posted in Mars News

The state of the art in robotic space mobility (e.g. not including conventional rocket propulsion) includes the Mars Exploration Rovers and the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory, and for human surface mobility the Apollo lunar roving …

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JPL Shares Excitement of Exploration at Open House - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

24 May 2011 Posted in Mars News

LAist
JPL Shares Excitement of Exploration at Open House
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
In this image, visitors to Open House at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are touching the solar panels of a full-scale model of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover. JPL's annual Open House on Saturday, May 14, and Sunday, May 15, …
The Open House of NASA's Jet Propulsion LaboratoryHighlander Newspaper
JPL Shares Excitement of Exploration at Open HouseRedOrbit

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Mars Rover Driving Leaves Distinctive Tracks - Space Ref (press release)

24 May 2011 Posted in Mars News

NASA
Mars Rover Driving Leaves Distinctive Tracks
Space Ref (press release)
A dance-step pattern is visible in the wheel tracks near the left edge of this scene recorded by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech When NASA's Opportunity Mars rover uses an onboard navigation capability during …
One-way ticket to MarsWashington Post

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Scheduling the Unknown - Astrobiology Magazine

24 May 2011 Posted in Mars News

Astrobiology Magazine
Scheduling the Unknown
Astrobiology Magazine
In an effort to maximize their scientific return, PLRP will be using planning software developed by the Human-Computer Interaction Group at NASA Ames Research Center initially as a task-planning tool for NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers. …

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