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Mars Rover Gets a Break in the Weather
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| Topic: Mars |
10/07/10 |
| Astrobiology Magazine´s field research editor Henry Bortman joined members of NASA´s AMASE team and JPL engineers at Mono Lake, California, during a field test of a prototype Mars drilling and sample-caching system. Finally, on Day 4, the weather cleared long enough to conduct outdoor tests. |
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Bringing Field Work Indoors
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| Topic: Mars |
10/06/10 |
| Astrobiology Magazine´s field research editor Henry Bortman joined members of NASA´s AMASE team and JPL engineers at Mono Lake, California, during a field test of a prototype Mars drilling and sample-caching system. On Day 3, unexpected storms forced the team to conduct their testing indoors. |
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Checking for Contamination
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| Topic: Mars |
10/05/10 |
| Astrobiology Magazine´s field research editor Henry Bortman joined members of NASA´s AMASE team and JPL engineers at Mono Lake, California, during a field test of a prototype Mars drilling and sample-caching system. Minimizing contamination is a critical aspect of the work. |
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Mono Lake and Mars
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| Topic: Mars |
10/04/10 |
| Astrobiology Magazine´s field research editor Henry Bortman joined members of NASA´s AMASE team and JPL engineers at Mono Lake, California, during a field test of a prototype Mars drilling and sample-caching system. On day 1, the team checked out the rover in a parking lot at the Mono Lake Visitor´s Center. |
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Mars Methane Lasts Less than a Year
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| Topic: Mars |
09/21/10 |
| A new study indicates that methane in the atmosphere of Mars lasts less than a year. Methane is replenished from localized sources that show seasonal and annual variations. This pattern of methane production raises questions as to whether the methane comes from geological activity - or biological processes. |
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The Next Mars Rover
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| Topic: Mars |
09/18/10 |
| NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, aka Curiosity, is scheduled to launch in late 2011. The goal of the mission is to determine whether or not Mars once had environments capable of supporting life as we know it. For astrobiologists, Curiosity will be a major step toward understanding the habitability of our solar system. |
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Carbon Dioxide, the Chemical Spy
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| Topic: Mars |
09/12/10 |
| Data from NASA's Phoenix lander suggests that liquid water has interacted with the Martian surface throughout the planet's history and into modern times. The findings could have important implications in the search for signs of past or present life on the red planet.Buy fashion bags |
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Viking Results Revisited
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| Topic: Mars |
09/04/10 |
| Experiments 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 blocks of life. The findings could make a difference in how astrobiologists search for signs of past or present life on the red planet. |
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Tracing the Martian Atmosphere
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| Topic: Mars |
08/31/10 |
| One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily maps of global, pole-to-pole, vertical distributions of the temperature, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere. The data will help astrobiologists determine the potential for past or present life on Mars. |
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Mud Volcanoes on Mars
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| Topic: Mars |
08/19/10 |
| Spewing out material from deep underground, geological structures on Mars thought to be mud volcanoes could give scientists the clues they need to determine if life exists, or ever existed, on the Red Planet. |
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