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Next Departure for Mars Stands Ready to Fly
08.02.07 - A NASA robotic explorer equipped to dig up and analyze icy soil on Mars sits atop a 13-story tall stack of rocket engines prepared for liftoff before sunup on Saturday.
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Mars Dust Storm Update
07.31.07 - Rover engineers are growing increasingly concerned about the temperature of vital electronics on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity while the rover stays nearly inactive due to a series of dust storms that has lasted for more than a month.
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Mars Dust Storm Update
07.20.07 - Having explored Mars for three-and-a-half years in what were missions originally designed for three months, NASA's Mars rovers are facing perhaps their biggest challenge.
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Mars Lander Ready for August Launch to Icy Site
07.09.07 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, the next mission to the surface of Mars, is beginning a new phase in preparation for a launch in August 2007.
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Dust Delays Mars Crater Entry
07.03.07 - A giant dust storm brewing for more than a week on Mars has become worse and is affecting surface operations of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.
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NASA Mars Rover Ready for Descent Into Crater
06.28.07 - NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into the Red Planet's massive Victoria Crater.
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NASA's Next Mars Lander in Florida
05.08.07 - A U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft carried NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft Monday, May 7, from Colorado to Florida, where Phoenix will start a much longer trip in August.
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Spirit Finds Evidence of Ancient Volcanic Explosion
05.03.07 - NASA's Mars Rover Spirit has found evidence of an ancient volcanic explosion. One strong clue is a bomb sag, which on Earth is found when a rock blown skyward by a volcanic explosion falls into soft deposits.
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Report Reveals Likely Causes of MGS Loss
04.13.07 - After studying Mars four times as long as originally planned, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter appears to have succumbed to battery failure caused by a complex sequence of events involving the onboard computer memory and ground commands.
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Mars Global Surveyor Mission Highlights
04.13.07
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Through a Telescope Darkly
04.04.07 - Mars scientist Diana Blaney studies the Red Planet from Hawaii.
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Mars Odyssey Mission Status
03.27.07 - Engineers for NASA's Mars Odyssey mission are examining data from the orbiter to determine whether onboard backup systems never used by the 6-year-old spacecraft could still be available if needed.
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Status
03.22.07 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself into safe mode -- a precautionary status with minimized activities -- on March 14. It remained healthy and in communication with Earth, but with no science observations, while the flight team examined engineering data. On March 20, the team brought the spacecraft back out of safe mode.
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Mars' South Pole Ice Deep and Wide
03.15.07 - New measurements of Mars' south polar region indicate extensive frozen water. The polar region contains enough frozen water to cover the whole planet in a liquid layer approximately 11 meters (36 feet) deep. A joint NASA-Italian Space Agency instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft provided these data.
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NASA Mars Rover Churns Up Questions With Sulfur-Rich Soil
03.14.07 - Some bright Martian soil containing lots of sulfur and a trace of water intrigues researchers who are studying information provided by NASA's Spirit rover.
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NASA Mars Orbiter Sees Effects of Ancient Underground Fluids
02.15.07 - Liquid or gas flowed through cracks penetrating underground rock on ancient Mars, according to a report based on some of the first observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Spacecraft Set to Reach Milestone, Reports Technical Glitches
02.07.07 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft this month is set to surpass the record for the most science data returned by any Mars spacecraft. While the mission continues to produce data at record levels, engineers are examining why two instruments are intermittently not performing entirely as planned.
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New NASA Orbiter Sees 1997 Mars Pathfinder Site
01.11.07 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a new project manager.
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Panel Will Study Mars Global Surveyor Events
01.10.07 - NASA has formed an internal review board to look more in-depth into why NASA's Mars Global Surveyor went silent in November 2006 and recommend any processes or procedures that could increase safety for other spacecraft.
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NASA Selects Proposals for Future Mars Missions and Studies
01.08.07 - On Monday, NASA selected for concept study development two proposals for future robotic missions to Mars.
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