News articles tagged with 'Mars' (Page 2)
Mars: How low can you go?
— 9 Oct 2010 08:38 | AstronomyThere are few places on Mars lower than this. On the left of this image, the floor of Melas Chasma sinks nine kilometres below the surrounding plains. New images from ESA's Mars Express…
NASA'S Mars atmosphere mission given the green light to proceed to development
— 6 Oct 2010 05:44 | AstronomyNASA's mission to investigate the mystery of how Mars lost much of its atmosphere passed a critical milestone on October 4, 2010. NASA has given approval for the development and 2013…
Peculiar phenomena during northern spring on Mars
— 22 Sep 2010 18:36 | AstronomyScientists may have solved the mystery of the carbon dioxide ice disappearance early in the Northern Martian springs followed later by its sudden reappearance, revealing a very active…
Mars rover Opportunity approaching possible meteorite
— 22 Sep 2010 09:34 | AstronomyImages that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took at the end of an 81-metre (266-foot) drive on Sept. 16 reveal a dark rock about 31 metres (102 feet) away. The rover's science…
Martian methane lasts less than a year
— 21 Sep 2010 12:48 | AstronomyMethane in the atmosphere of Mars lasts less than a year, according to a study by Italian scientists. Sergio Fonti (Universita del Salento) and Giuseppe Marzo (NASA Ames) have used…
The Martian moon Phobos may have formed by catastrophic blast
— 21 Sep 2010 12:46 | AstronomyScientists now have firm indications that the Martian satellite Phobos formed relatively near its current location via re-accretion of material blasted into Mars' orbit by some catastrophic…
Herschel Mars observations: First results
— 21 Sep 2010 12:43 | AstronomyThe Herschel Space Observatory is providing the first exciting results on Mars, from its guaranteed-time key program 'Water and related chemistry in the Solar System'. An accurate globally-averaged…
Missing piece inspires new look at Mars puzzle
— 4 Sep 2010 09:54 | AstronomyExperiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building…
Mars's mysterious elongated crater
— 28 Aug 2010 10:04 | AstronomyOrcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its…
UA-operated stereo camera selected for Mars mission
— 4 Aug 2010 10:49 | AstronomyNASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and have selected five science instruments - including one from the…