Space Pioneers Wanted for 520-Day Mars Project
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Bored with your job? Fancy a challenge for the next 520 days? A new fixed-term position from the European Space Agency (ESA) may be just the ticket: the agency's scientists are looking for six people to go on a pretend trip to Mars.
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Two Indiana University scientists have been tapped to help build two miniaturized instruments for NASA's next Mars rover mission, a traveling laboratory that will search for signs of past or present life.
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Play nice, boffins As NASA greenlights its next Shuttle launch (8 June, for those keeping track), 14 international space agencies have agreed to cooperate on a rather more grandiose mission: bringing samples of the Martian surface back to Earth.â¦
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The contest calls for entrants to land a rover on the moon that will be able to travel at least 500 meters and send high-resolution video, still images and other data.
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The contest calls for entrants to land a rover on the moon that can travel at least 500 meters and send data.
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NASA&#39;s Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled. The more they look, the more evidence of past liquid water on Mars these robots discover.
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Scientists said Friday they were plotting the next move for the Mars rover Opportunity, which reached the edge of a deep and geologically rich crater last week after a marathon trek.
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The European Space Agency is looking for 12 volunteers with planetary vision who want to be on the cutting edge and don't get bored easily.
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A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space.
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A group of space futurists is devising ways to do everything from bounce objects off comets to send tourists to Mars.
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For those who want to explore Mars but cant wait for a spacecraft to take them there, NASA scientists have reformulated a website that lets the general public search data and images from previous missions.
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Data from Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity shows its unique landing site is a prime spot for a return mission to look for life, scientists say.
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Two University of New Hampshire space scientists have been awarded &#36;5 million to help NASA build instruments for missions beyond the solar system.
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It's a mission to Mars &#151; without leaving Moscow. Russian scientists have finished fashioning a crucial section of a mock spacecraft that will simulate a voyage to the Red Planet, an official at the Moscow institute leading the project said Wednesday.
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When the Mars rovers Opportunity and Spirit reached their distant destination in early 2004, NASA scientists hoped the vehicles would probe the planet's frigid landscape for 90 days before they pooped out or were undone by the harsh Martian environment.
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By Jeff Postelwait World Staff Writer  Sending a message to mission control, Cmdr. Garrett Pool asked for the countdown to commence as the five-member team of the Hawkings Explorer was ready to begin its mission to Mars. "We are ready for liftoff," Garrett said.
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The European Space Agency is looking for volunteers to make a pretend trip to Mars.