2003: Mars space probe disappears
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Scientists have failed to make contact with the British-built Mars probe, Beagle 2, which should have landed on the planet early today.
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THE Mars rover Opportunity has found new evidence of past existence of water on the Red Planet, NASA said today. Opportunity keeps finding new clues of past water as it continues probing Mars, said mission
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Email your nostalgia pictures for this daily feature to mypictures@mrn.co.uk   ON FEBRUARY 1 2003, the US space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board.
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The European Space Agency's  Rosetta probe swooped around the back of Mars early on Sunday,  completing a key maneuver in its 10-year mission to meet a  distant comet.
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New close-up pics of the Red Planet NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has delivered its first close-up snaps of the Martian surface, courtesy of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE).â¦
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The unexpectedly long 10-year-old mission of the Mars Global Surveyor probe is most likely over after contact with the orbiter was lost earlier this month, NASA said.
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London - The British team behind the ill-fated Beagle 2 probe to Mars, which vanished without trace in December 2003 while attempting to land on the Red Planet, unveiled plans on Wednesday for a possible successor mission.
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NASA said Wednesday it was investigating problems with two instruments aboard the most powerful spacecraft ever flown to Mars. The problems on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arose late last year, but recently worsened to the point where engineers have stowed one of the instruments.
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MOFFETT FIELD, CALIF. - The Mars rover Opportunity is set to examine the heat shield that protected the robot as it plunged through the planet&#39;s atmosphere last January.
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LA CANADA, Calif.  - A European-designed space  probe broke away from its NASA mothership on Friday on a plunge  toward the mysterious Saturn moon Titan, starting a journey  researchers hope will end with answers about one of the most  puzzling bodies in the solar system.
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SPACE.com / BOULDER, Colorado - Ground controllers today successfully performed a major maneuver of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MOR)--an "end game" tactic that puts the orbiting probe a step closer to studying the red planet with its entire suite of science sensors.
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Five years ago, after two NASA missions to Mars were doomed by elementary mistakes - a software glitch and a mix-up between English and metric units - the space agency devised more elaborate
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NASA spacecraft enters circular Martian orbit    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The newest spacecraft to Mars, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, has entered the nearly circular, low-altitude orbit from which it will scrutinize the planet, U.S. space agency said on Tuesday.
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Description: An investigation into the loss of Britain&#39;s Beagle 2 spacecraft last December suggests the cause may have been unusual Martian weather.
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Also: Nasa's Mars rovers--'biggest breakthrough' in science in 2004. [News.com Extra]
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Sep. 19--An unexplained object that apparently separated from shuttle Atlantis forced NASA to delay the crew's return to Earth by at least a day, mission managers said today.   The object could be as benign as a piece of ice or a small tool.
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Scientists are no closer to discovering what happened to the ill-fated space probe Beagle 2, which vanished while attempting to land on Mars, according to an investigation released Tuesday.