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»» Opportunity's Eighth Anniversary View From 'Greeley Haven' (False Color)
[Wednesday, January 25, 2012] This mosaic of images taken in mid-January 2012 shows the windswept vista northward from the location where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is spending its fifth Martian winter, an outcrop informally named "Greeley Haven."
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»» 2012 NASA planetary Science Summer School
[Sunday, January 22, 2012] NASA is accepting applications from science and engineering post-docs, recent PhDs, and doctoral students for its 24th Annual Planetary Science Summer School, which will hold two separate sessions this summer.
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»» Phobos-Grunt Has Returned To Earth
[Sunday, January 15, 2012] According to RIA Novosti: "Phobos-Grunt fragments have crashed down in the Pacific Ocean. The spacecraft fell at about 21:45 on Sunday Moscow time [17:45 GMT]."
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»» NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Update: Studying Rock Target 'Amboy' (With Photos)
[Friday, January 13, 2012] Opportunity is positioned for winter on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is tilted about 15 degrees to the north for favorable solar energy production.
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»» New App Grabs Latest Mars Rover Opportunity Images For You
[Friday, January 13, 2012] Mars Images lets you browse the latest images from the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover. Scroll through the thumbnails of the latest downlink from Mars and view any image in fullscreen mode.
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»» ESA Coordinates International Satellite Reentry Campaign for Phobos-Grunt
[Friday, January 13, 2012] An international campaign to assess the imminent atmospheric reentry of Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars craft is being coordinated by experts in ESA's Space Debris Office.
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»» Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report
[Monday, January 9, 2012] An engine firing on Jan. 11 will be the biggest maneuver that NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft will perform on its flight between Earth and Mars.
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»» Mars Rover to Spend Winter at 'Greeley Haven' named for late ASU geologist Ronald Greeley
[Friday, January 6, 2012] NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next few months during the coldest part of Martian winter at Greeley Haven, an outcrop of rock on Mars recently named informally to honor ASU Regents' Professor Ronald Greeley.
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»» Image: Fresh Crater North of Tharsis Region on Mars
[Thursday, January 5, 2012] This impact crater is approximately one kilometer in diameter. The ejecta blanket (remnants of the material from the original impact) is still visible indicating that the crater may be very fresh.
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»» Image: Faults in Ius Chasmaes on Mars
[Wednesday, January 4, 2012] Ius Chasma is one of many steep-sided interconnected depressions (chasmata) that comprise Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system in the Solar System.
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»» Image: Spring Fans Bursting from Cracks in Ice on Mars
[Tuesday, January 3, 2012] Sand dunes in the North polar region of Mars are covered every winter by a layer of carbon dioxide ice (dry ice). In the springtime the ice on the dunes cracks, often in polygonal patterns.
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»» Mars Rover Opportunity Update: December 23-27, 2011
[Monday, January 2, 2012] Opportunity is positioned at a candidate site for Mars' southern hemisphere winter. The rover is at the north end of 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, tilted about 15 degrees to the north for favorable solar energy production.
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»» Mars Rover Opportunity Wheel Passes Checkup After Stalled Drive (with photos)
[Thursday, December 29, 2011] This period began with a campaign of using the Microscopic Imager (MI) and Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) to examine a target called "Komati" on the "Saddleback" outcrop.
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»» Take a Virtual Sleigh Ride Over the Real Landscapes of Mars
[Wednesday, December 21, 2011] NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab put together this great video of real landscapes on Mars with imagery from the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter accompanied by some holiday music.
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»» Meteorite Shock Waves Trigger Dust Avalanches on Mars
[Friday, December 16, 2011] When a meteorite careens toward the dusty surface of the Red Planet, it kicks up dust and can cause avalanching even before the rock from outer space hits the ground, a research team led by an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona has discove
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»» NASA Mars-Bound Rover Begins Research in Space
[Thursday, December 15, 2011] NASA's car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars. The research will aid in planning for future human missions to the Red Planet.
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»» AIP FYI Number 146: Administration to Announce Decision on Mars Missions in February
[Thursday, December 15, 2011] Members of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics expressed frustration at a hearing about what they and a prominent planetary scientist charged was the Obama Administration's lack of commitment to two missions to Mars in 2016 and 2018.
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»» Mars Rover Opportunity to Stop and Study Rocks (with photos)
[Monday, December 12, 2011] Opportunity is currently exploring one of the candidate sites for winter, on the north end of "Cape sols 2791-2797, November 30 - December 6, 2011: York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater.
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»» NASA Statement on Roscosmos, NASA, ESA, and Future Mars Missions
[Thursday, December 8, 2011] Representatives from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) met in Paris on 7 December 2011 to explore partnership opportunities involving future Mars missions.
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»» NASA Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited by Water
[Thursday, December 8, 2011] NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet environments on Mars.
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»» ESA responds to Phobos-Grunt tracking request
[Wednesday, December 7, 2011] Communication attempts on Monday, Tuesday and today, which made use of a redundant transmitter on board the spacecraft, did not succeed. The Agency has agreed to continue the effort until Friday, 9 December.
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»» ESA suspends tracking support to Russian Mars mission
[Friday, December 2, 2011] In consultation and agreement with Phobos-Grunt mission managers, ESA engineers will end tracking support today.
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