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Universe Today (www.universetoday.com) has great Mars rover news, photos, videos and more
Sunday, May 24
UT Briefs: Shuttle Lands, Re-living Phoenix
Canada Next shuttle mission: STS-127, slated for liftoff on June 13, on a trip to the International Space Station. Do you remember what you were doing a year ago? You may recall the Phoenix Mars lander touched down on the Red Planet a year ago, ...
Friday, Apr 24
Mars Rover Spirit is Rolling Again After Memory Problems
It's been a worrying month for the health of Mars Expedition Rover Spirit. Two weeks ago, the embattled robot failed to wake up after three successive communication sessions, and then over the Easter weekend (April 12th and 13th), mission HQ noticed ...
Tuesday, Mar 31
Crew of Six Begins 105-day Mars Mission Simulation
In addition to the habitable module, there is also a Mars lander module, which the crew during the longer 500-day mission scheduled for later this year will use to simulate a landing on Mars. A medical module and utility module will house other ...
Thursday, Nov 13
Mars Rover Contact Reestablished, Spirit is Alive! | Universe Today
After all, it seems the Phoenix Mars lander succumbed to an arctic dust storm-induced drained battery, and Spirit was also hit by the solar panel's old foe, a dust storm in Gusev Crater. But the key point that needs to be remembered in ...
Tuesday, Oct 28
Engineers Begin Shutting Down Phoenix Lander Instruments
It appears the end is nigh for the Phoenix Mars Lander. Today, engineers have begun to shut down some of the lander's instruments and heaters. But this is in hopes of extending the mission by saving power as available sunlight begins to wane with the approach of Martian autumn. But at the [...]
Precious Gems Discovered on Mars
The discovery of a water-based mineral on Mars by the spectrometer on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests liquid water remained on the planet's surface a billion years later than was previously thought, and it likely played an important role in shaping the planet's surface...
Friday, Oct 24
Could Strange Mars Craters be from a Fallen Third Moon?
Was there a third Martian moon orbiting the planet? Did Phobos and Deimos have a triplet sibling? According to the discovery of two elliptical impact craters, there might just have been another moon, but it ploughed into the Red Planet's surface a long time ago. The moonlet would have been...
Saturday, Oct 11
Frozen Mars North Pole Ice Patterns Observed by HiRISE
As the Phoenix Mars lander will agree, it's cold near Mars' North Pole. Phoenix is currently seeing the winter frost encroach on its location, bright patches of ice appearing on the rocks surrounding it. Another sure sign of winter at this high latitude is the loss of light; soon day will tur...
Wednesday, Nov 29
Podcast: Universe Today - HiRISE View of Mars
If you want to get a good view of something, you'll want a big telescope, or you want to get close. NASA has decided to both, equipping its new Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with the largest spacecraft telescope ever built, and then flying it closer to Mars than any previous spacecraft. This te...
