Spacecraft Creates the First Hiking Maps of Mars
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Scientists using data from the HRSC experiment onboard ESA's Mars Express spacecraft have produced the first 'hiker's maps' of Mars.
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New images obtained by a sharp-eyed Martian satellite reveal that some Red Planet features once thought to have been carved by flowing water were in fact created by other processes.
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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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LOS ANGELES Oct. 7, 2004 - NASA&#39;s Mars rovers don&#39;t seem to be wearing out, so mission planners have begun to think more boldly including a plan to let one climb up a steep slope from a crater it has been exploring to set out across a plain.
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European Space Agency -- ESAÃ¢ÂÂs Mars Express has relayed pictures from one of NASA's Mars rovers for the first time, as part of a set of interplanetary networking demonstrations.     The demonstrations pave the way for future Mars missions to draw on joint interplanetary networking capabilities...
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Images taken by NASA's Mars Global  Surveyor spacecraft suggest the presence of liquid water on the  Martian surface, a tantalizing find for scientists wondering if  the Red Planet ever has harbored life.
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After a tedious crawl across the desert floor and a slow, energy-strapped hike up hills, the Mars rover Spirit has finally rewarded scientists with tantalizing
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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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Forget a Global Positioning System or even a map. The Earth&#39;s own original satellite is the most important guide for two hikers making the first known continuous trek of the nation&#39;s western coastline.
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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 discovery of Mars&#39; watery past by NASA&#39;s Spirit and Opportunity rovers has been chosen as the key scientific advance of 2004 in an annual list compiled by Science magazine.
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While the exploration of the Moon and other planets in our solar system is&nbsp;exciting, the first task for astronauts and robots alike is to actually&nbsp;get to those destinations.
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The hills of Mars yielded more tantalizing clues about how water shaped the Red Planet in tests by NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s robotic geologist, Spirit, while its twin
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Pictures of Martian gullies taken years apart suggest that water still flows on the surface of the planet.
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Description: Scientists exploring Mars via the rover &#39;Opportunity&#39; published 11 papers detailing the progress of the research being done in an area called Meridiani Planum.
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Image: This map shows the estimated lower limit of the water content of the upper meter of Martian soil. &quot;Odyssey has accomplished all of its mission-success criteria,&quot; said Dr.
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Updated photos from the Mars rovers allow us to look back at the three-year mission.