 NASA's Phoenix Lander goes sleepless on Mars |
| A NASA handout image shows the Robotic Arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander with a sample of martian soil. A NASA statement said that analysis of images from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scientists increasingly convinced of ice near the Red Planet's...... (7/23/2008 12:26:41 PM) |
| Echus Chasma images from Mars Express |
| The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express has returned images of Echus Chasma in this image made available on July 14, 2008. Echus Chasma is an approximately 100 km long and 10 km wide incision in the Lunae Planum high...... (7/15/2008 10:15:54 AM) |
| New study finds water in moon rocks |
| Green glass spherules collected from the Apollo 15 landing site at Hadley Rille on the moon are shown in this undated handout photo.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)BEIJING,
July 10 (Xinhuanet) --U.S. researchers have found water in rocks from the
moon --...... (7/10/2008 8:46:30 AM) |
| Shenzhou VII ready for final test |
| Related: 2nd manned space missionChina's First Manned Space Mission
BEIJING, July 2 -- The team that developed Shenzhou
VII, China's third manned spacecraft, will begin the final test at Jiuquan
Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province in a few...... (7/2/2008 8:48:19 AM) |
| Monster impact leaves Mars lopsided |
| An artistic representation, created from simulations, of the impact that gouged out a hole 5,200 miles (8,500km) across and 6,500 miles (10,600km) long in Mars. The giant crater made by an asteroid or comet explains why Mars is so lopsided, with a...... (6/27/2008 9:18:00 AM) |
| Could Red Planet be capable of sustaining life? |
| The Robotic Arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander carries a scoop of Martian soil bound for the spacecraft's microscope in handout photo released on June 13, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) BEIJING,June 23 (Xinhuanet)-- NASA's
PhoenixMars landeruncovered...... (6/23/2008 1:14:39 PM) |
| Phoenix finds water on red planet |
| Martian ice melts in this combination photo taken by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on June 15 and 18, 2008, in this handout image released by NASA June 20, 2008. A trench dug by Phoenix with its robotic arm at the arctic circle...... (6/22/2008 2:01:24 PM) |
| European astronomers find "super-Earths" |
| Astronomers Michel Mayor (R) and Stephane Udry (L) of Switzerland's Geneva Observatory attend an astronomy conference in Nantes, western France, Monday June 16, 2008. European astronomers had located dozens of giant planets in three distant solar...... (6/17/2008 10:15:46 AM) |
