Universe Today (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
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 turn to night, forcing [...]
Universe Today (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The days are getting shorter for the Phoenix Mars Lander, and as fall approaches on Mars’ northern plains, the scientists and engineers for the mission are quickly trying get as much done before power levels on the lander drop too low for any more scientific activities. In the image here, blue-ish white frost appears [...]
MSNBC.com: Space News (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
After more than four months on the arctic plains of the red planet, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's days are finally numbered.
Live Science (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Setting sun, freezing temperatures will likely spell the end for Phoenix mission.
Space.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Setting sun, freezing temperatures will likely spell the end for Phoenix mission.
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
WASHINGTON — America's next daring adventure on Mars — a one-ton rolling science laboratory scheduled to launch next October — is in deep trouble.Huge cost overruns and technical difficulties may cause the $2 billion Mars Science Laboratory to be delayed or canceled outright, members of a NASA advisory committee were warned Thursday."Our problem is enormous," said Jim Green, director...
nanoarchitecture.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Research conducted by material scientists may lead to the ability to extract water from the Moon and possibly Mars by shooting microwave beams into their surface, according to Bill Kaukler, Associate Research Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The Phoenix Mars lander scratched just two inches below the surface of Mars to expose water ice. In the Moon’s...
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Shortly after Lehman Brothers collapsed in mid-September, the EGC Group, a Melville-based advertising agency, donated 24 hours to developing ad campaigns for five of Long Island ’s largest nonprofit organizations worried that with the economy in Source: www.newsday.com Mars lander finds minerals suggesting past water - Associated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft [...]...
