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Look at all this technology! Orbiters circling Mars, rovers running on the surface… But how many of them are able to say whether or not life was or is present on the Red Planet? None. Of course, the Beagle 2 probe carried by the Mars Express orbiter had such capabilities until contact was lost upon separation. Not mu... |
8 May 2008
09:31 GMT |
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The MARSIS instrument, or the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument, on board Europe's Mars Express probe was originally designed to look for water beneath the Red Planet's surface but could also easily penetrate the ice sheet covering Jupiter's moon Europa or the surfac... |
7 May 2008
09:08 GMT |
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Typical cameras on-board orbiters sent in solar system exploration missions can only map the surface of a planet or a moon. Scientists seldom get the opportunity to look under the surface of a cosmic body without actually landing a robotic mission on the respective planet, and even so it would only be effective in st... |
17 April 2008
10:28 GMT |
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The Promethei Planum was previously a subject of study for ESA's Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera, which probed it back in September 2005, while being in a high orbit around the Red Planet. Now, new observations conducted with the Mars Advanced Radar for Ionoshpere and Subsurface Sounding, or MARSIS fo... |
18 March 2008
06:53 GMT |
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Although Mars doesn't look much like a planet ravaged by volcanic activity in the past, it is clear that it had to go through such a stage in its history. Now, new observations conducted with ESA's Mars Express spacecraft reveal the actions of lava flows and water on the surface, and how these molded the Ma... |
14 March 2008
11:04 GMT |
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Most of the images taken by ESA's Mars Express, although extremely spectacular, usually miss critical features such as the topography of the photographed surface area, or vertical elevation of the structures and the surrounding regions. On the other hand, the High Resolution Stereo Camera on-board the Mars Expre... |
6 February 2008
06:07 GMT |
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Who said Martians are evil? Maybe they are trying to tell us something... I mean, just look at the evidence: happy face on Mars in 1999, happy face on Mars in 2006, Big Foot only a few days ago and, last but no least, happy face on Mars 2008. This particular image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Context ... |
5 February 2008
09:06 GMT |
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Back on 13 April 2007, during its 4199 orbit around the Red Planet, ESA's Mars Express took an image of the Terby crater, with the help of its High Resolution Stereo Camera. It seems to be presenting high scientific interest, mainly because it could hold valuable information about the role of liquid water in the... |
1 February 2008
05:59 GMT |
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The same sand storm that crippled the Spirit and Opportunity Martian rovers this summer was apparently studied by the Mars Express Spacecraft orbiting our sister planet, revealing that it generated a rise in the Red Planet's temperature of about 20 to 30 degrees Celsius. The storm observed this year started deve... |
11 December 2007
11:16 GMT |
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Similar to the spacecraft Mars Express, the Venus Express is a project of the European Space Agency to study Venus. The Venus Express was the first mission to Venus, since the 1994 NASA's Magellan mission, but unlike NASA's spacecraft it is not designed to take direct pictures of the planets' surface, ... |
26 November 2007
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Launched by the European Space Agency in 2003, the Mars Express was the first European spacecraft in the orbit of the Red Planet. After four years of continuous study of the planet's surface and sending countless images, this Friday the orbiter will complete its 5000th orbit around Earth's sister planet.Equ... |
23 November 2007
05:52 GMT |
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Mars Advanced Radar for Substance and Ionospheric Sounding or MARSIS sent back lately some of the most exciting data ever. MARSIS is an experiment aboard the ESA's Mars Express. Originally composed of two parts, the Mars Express Orbiter and the Beagle 2 lander were designed to perform exobiology and geochemistry... |
16 November 2007
08:16 GMT |
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