Topic: United States
The US space agency is getting ready to launch later this month the biggest, most expensive robotic vehicle ever built to explore Mars for signs of previous life there, NASA said Thursday.The Curiosity rover, known formally as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), ...
The US space agency said it is giving up on trying to contact its Spirit rover on Mars, saying the robot explorer likely froze to death in the Red Planet's harsh winter."NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars ...
On Thursday, Nov. 18th, we had a very exciting day. Our Mars drill was to be operated by a class of 5th grade students from Valley View School in Pleasanton, California. We got up early in the morning to set up the ...
The article presents the highlights of the 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) held in Houston, Texas on March 12-16, 2007. In a special session on MRO, John Mustard (Brown University, USA) re- ported detection of phyllosilicate assem- blage with unaltered ...
Exploration has always been dangerous but in the last half a century we have tried to change that in our space program. The story "Transit of Earth" is about the risks of space travel and the loneliness that inevitably must be felt ...
A group of junior high school students a first class California discovered a mysterious cave on Mars. The discovery was not carried out by visiting the red planet, but when they were doing research projects for studying imagery taken by NASA spacecraft ...
Summer vacations for a class of California seventh graders might pale in comparison to the class trip they recently took to Mars. The science class from Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found the opening while working on a research project with ...
Such an atmosphere should have led to the formation of outcrops rich in carbonate minerals, for which evidence has been sparse. Using the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, we have now identified outcrops rich in magnesium-iron carbonate (16 to 34 weight percent) in ...
This is a digest of the stories posted to newscientist. Mars glacier lubricant could fuel rockets The ice at the planet's north pole may be moving on a bed of salty sludge, which one day could be handy for fuel. Dyson helps ...
President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to cancel work on a new rocket and instead fund a heavy-lift launcher to take humans to the moon, asteroids, and the moons of Mars. NASA would see its 2011 budget grow by $1 billion ...
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