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Roving robots explore moon, desert

Whether it's exploring the moon's craters or the inhospitable Chilean desert, robots are aiding in the research work that humans wouldn't ordinarily be able to do. At a recent visit to Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi gets up close and personal with the...

Tags: Emerging Technologies, News, kara tsuboi, carnegie mellon university, lunar x prize, robots, jared kohler, moon, mars, solar, space

Videos 2008-05-28

Photos: Phoenix lands on Mars

NASA has released the first raw images of the North Polar region of Mars that were taken by the Phoenix spacecraft shortly after it landed. by Andy Smith

Tags: Phoenix Technologies, Photograph, Andy Smith, space, Mars, Phoenix

Image galleries 2008-05-25

Exploring Mars with Java

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco Friday, James Gosling, Sun Microsystems vice president and fellow, talks to Arizona State University geological sciences professor Phil Christensen about the school's geospatial software, JMARS. The open-source project is available to the public and used by NASA to find and gather scientific data...

Tags: Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mars, NASA, JMARS

Videos 2008-05-09

Heating Mars with mirrors

This University of Arizona UA project doesnt want to terraform the whole Red Planet. In fact, this project is funded with a very modest $9,000 grant from NASA and just wants to heat a one-square kilometer area of Mars surface by using space mirrors as reports New Scientist. The plan...

Tags: Space &, Aerospace, Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, Mars, Rigel Woida

Blog posts 2006-11-16

Images: Marooned after 1,000 days on Mars

Mars rover Spirit has been still for the Martian winter but still celebrates 1,000 days on the Red Planet with a new panorama.

Tags: winter, Mars

Image galleries 2006-10-27

Photos: Hi-res camera spots visitor on Mars

NASA's high-resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter takes photos of one of the Martian rovers.

Tags: Mars, camera, NASA, photograph

Image galleries 2006-10-06

Photos: New camera brings Mars closer

The Mars Reconaissance Orbiter sent the first images from its highest resolution camera. Plus, updates from other Mars explorers.

Tags: Mars, camera, image

Image galleries 2006-10-02

Photos: Zooming in on the 'Face on Mars'

A 1976 image from NASA's Viking 1 showed a rock formation on Mars that resembled a human face and triggered 30 years of speculation.

Tags: photograph, NASA, image, Mars

Image galleries 2006-09-22

Images: A moon shot on the way to Mars

NASA hands out assignments for the man-on-the-moon Constellation project, to be followed by a mission to Mars.

Tags: Mars, NASA

Image galleries 2006-06-07

Images: A moon shot on the way to Mars

NASA hands out assignments for the man-on-the-moon Constellation project, to be followed by a mission to Mars.

Tags: Mars, NASA

Image galleries 2006-06-07

An antimatter spaceship for Mars?

If you're a science fiction reader, you know that spaceships are using antimatter to travel through space. Now NASA is working on such a spaceship to go to Mars in 45 days using only 10 milligrams of anti-electrons -- or positrons -- for the round trip mission. These positrons will...

Tags: Mars, spaceship

Blog posts 2006-04-19

Photos: Mars in full color

A high-res camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back infrared color images of the Red Planet.

Tags: NASA, camera, Mars

Image galleries 2006-04-10

Photos: Mars in full color

A high-res camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back infrared color images of the Red Planet.

Tags: NASA, camera, Mars

Image galleries 2006-04-10

Photos: Mars Orbiter snaps first high-res image

NASA scientists are all smiles after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back its first image.

Tags: Mars, smile, NASA, scientist, image

Image galleries 2006-03-24

Photos: Mars Orbiter snaps first high-res image

NASA scientists are all smiles after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back its first image.

Tags: Mars, smile, NASA, scientist, image

Image galleries 2006-03-24

Photos: Mars Orbiter snaps first high-res image

NASA scientists are all smiles after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back its first image.

Tags: Mars, smile, NASA, scientist, image

Image galleries 2006-03-24

Mooning over Mars

Teaching about space this year? Check out this excellent narrated and computer-animated video of a flythrough through Mars' Mariner Valley, assembled by Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility. It was constructed from more than 500 individual photos taken by the Thermal Emission Imaging System THEMIS aboard...

Tags: Mars

Blog posts 2006-03-13

Google lands on Mars

Tonight I noticed that mars.google.com now has a CNAME record that points to www.google.com. This usually means that something is about to happen with that subdomain -- with the exception of calendar.google.com of course. So I started digging and you will never guess what I found -- a...

Tags: Mars

Blog posts 2006-03-12

Images: Mars or bust

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will study the Red Planet for evidence of water.

Tags: Mars

Image galleries 2006-03-09

Images: Mars or bust

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will study the Red Planet for evidence of water.

Tags: Mars

Image galleries 2006-03-09