Snow White Soil Success By Phoenix
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26th, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil, and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench.
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Phoenix Mars Lander Plays In The Dirt
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander placed a sample of Martian soil in the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory today for the first time.
Read MoreNASA’s Mars Orbiter + Global Surveyor Offer Impactful Info
New analysis of Mars' terrain using NASA spacecraft observations reveals what appears to be by far the largest impact crater ever found in the solar system.
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Engineering teams are conducting final checkouts of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS.
Read MorePeek At Pulsars At Play Provided By XMM-Newton
The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton has, for the first time, detected signals from both stars of a binary pulsar system in X-rays, unveiling a scientific goldmine.
Read MoreNASA Review Has Humans Returning To The Moon + Establishing A Base by 2020
NASA engineers and scientists have completed a milestone review to help determine the systems needed to return humans to the moon and establish a lunar outpost.
Read MoreNASA’s Explorer Program Nabs Newbies
Two science proposals have now been selected by NASA to become the agency's next Explorer Program Mission of Opportunity investigations.
Read MoreOui! NASA’s Jason 2 Launches—A Quadripartite Launch Success
NASA successfully launched on Friday a new NASA-French space agency oceanography satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on a globe-circling voyage.
Read MoreGot Rocks? NASA’s Moon Digging Contest Goes For Deep Pockets
Did you sign up? Hope so, for the deadline is now closed for team registration at the California Space Education and Workforce Institute (CSEWI), with a record number of 25 team entrants having signed for the upcoming 2008 Regolith Excavation Challenge involving a NASA winning purse of $750,000.
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