An artist’s illustration of the Cassini spacecraft as it makes its closest swing past a Saturnian moon on Mar. 12, 2008
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) floats gracefully above the blue Earth after release from Discovery’s robot arm after a successful STS-103 servicing mission in December 1999. Credit: NASA. 
An artist’s concept of Spirit, one of NASA’s long-lived Mars Exploration Rovers, which has been roving on the red planet for more than five years.…
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NASA's 10 Greatest Science Missions
March 8th, 2009 
Malvika Sampat 
Posted in Tech News 
Tags: Asteroid Belt, Blue Earth, Cassini Spacecraft, Distant Sun, Flyby, Gas Giants, Hubble Space Telescope, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mission Madness, More Than Five Years, Nasa Mars, Nasa Missions, New Planet, Pioneer 10, Planet Jupiter, Robot Arm, Science Missions, Scientific Breakthroughs, Space Mission, Spitzer Space Telescope 
Comments OffAging Mars Rover Gets A Power Boost
February 23rd, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
Mars rover SpiritFrom Yahoo News/Space:
NASA’s aging Mars rover Spirit has a bit more power under its hood thanks to some Martian winds that cleaned dust from its vital solar panels.
The handy cleaning occurred earlier this month and was discovered by engineers scanning data from Spirit’s power subsystem.
“We will be able to use this energy to do significantly more driving,” said Colette Lohr, a rover mission manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Aging, Hour And A Half, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jpl, Limiting Factor, Mars Rover Spirit, Martian, Nasa, Nasa Mars, Power Boost, Power Subsystem, Rover Mission, Solar Panels, Space Nasa, Yahoo Comments OffAre We Bringing Our Germs to Mars?
February 7th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
From Time Magazine:
Star Trek fans know it as the Prime Directive: that there should be no interference with the internal affairs of other civilizations. (Given the frequency with which captains Kirk, Picard, et. al., violate it, however, the Prime Directive seems more like a Prime Suggestion.) Since human beings have yet to explore very far beyond Earth, pondering an interplanetary noninterference policy of our own may seem a little premature — at least until we’ve mastered warp drives and phasers.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Exploring The Solar System, Germs, Harmful Contamination, Hitch A Ride, Internal Affairs, Legal Framework, Mars Lander, Mars Phoenix Lander, Nasa Mars, Nuclear Weapons, Outer Space Treaty, Phasers, Picard, Prime Directive, Red Planet, Star Trek, Star Trek Fans, Time Magazine, Unmanned Spacecraft, Warp Drives Comments OffDiscovery Indicates Mars Was Habitable
December 27th, 2008 Malvika Sampat 
From Live Science:
Evidence of a key mineral on Mars has been found at several locations on the planet’s surface, suggesting that any microbial life that might have been there back when the planet was wetter could have lived comfortably.
The findings offer up intriguing new sites for future missions to probe, researchers said.…
Posted in Science News Tags: American Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting, Carbonates, Discovery, Environments, Journal Science, Live Science, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mro, Microbial Life, Missions, Nasa, Nasa Mars, San Francisco, Wetter Comments OffNASA Delays Mars Science Laboratory Launch To 2011
December 10th, 2008 Malvika Sampat 
In a rare astronomical occurrence, called planetary conjunction, planets Venus (top l.), and Jupiter (top r.), were seen with a crescent moon. The three orbs created a momentary smiley face in the sky over Asia on Monday. Bullit Marquez/APFrom Christian Science Monitor:
For folks looking forward to the launch of another ground-breaking Mars mission next year, you’ll have to wait.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Bullit, Christian Science Monitor, Crescent Moon, Extra 400, Eye Shade, Face In The Sky, Green Eye, Mars Mission, Mars Science, Nasa, Nasa Delays, Nasa Launch, Nasa Mars, National Aeronautics And Space, National Aeronautics And Space Administration, Orbs, Planetary Conjunction, S Green, Science Laboratory, Smiley Face Comments OffNasa Delays Its Next Mars Mission
December 4th, 2008 Tushar Mathur 
From the BBC:
The US space agency (Nasa) has delayed the launch of its Mars Science Laboratory rover mission.
MSL was scheduled to fly next year, but the mission has been dogged by testing and hardware problems.
The rover’s launch would now be postponed until late 2011, agency officials said.
The mission is using innovative technologies to explore whether microbial life could ever have existed on the Red Planet.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Agency Officials, Bbc, Fly, Hardware Problems, Innovative Technologies, Launch, Mars Mission, Mars Rover, Mars Science, Microbial Life, Msl, Nasa, Nasa Mars, Price Tag, Red Planet, Rover Mission, Science Laboratory, Space Nasa, Us Space Agency Comments Off
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