Mars Today Top StoriesMars Today - Mars News as it HappensNASA Mars Opportunity: Photos of Scenic View - sol 1574-1580, June 28-July 04, 2008- July 12, 2008 Opportunity has completed work on the stand-off portion of the full-color panorama of the layered cliff known as "Cape Verde."http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=28586 NASA Mars Rover Spirit: Biding Time sol 1594-1600, June 27-July 03, 2008- July 12, 2008 Spirit continues to ride out the winter by doing minimal activities to conserve power. The rover conducts very light science activities and relays data to NASA's Odyssey orbiter for transmission to Earth. The rest of the time, Spirit mostly sleeps.http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=28585 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Uses Soil Probe and Swiss Scope- July 12, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has touched Martian soil with a fork-like probe for the first time and begun using a microscope that examines shapes of tiny particles by touching them.http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=25931 Sample-Collection Tests by NASA Mars Phoenix Lander Continue- July 10, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer, or TEGA.http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=25920 Unlocking Martian Rocks- July 10, 2008 Signs of life on Mars may be hiding under its rocks, or perhaps hiding inside those rocks. A new study offers a simplified technique for detecting biological and pre-biotic molecules that become trapped inside minerals.http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=28567 |