Mars Express and Venus Express Operations Extended
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ESA's Mars Express and Venus Express missions, to explore our nearest neighbour planets Mars and Venus respectively, will continue to operate until early-May 2009.
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LOS ANGELES NASA&#39;s Mars rovers continue to perform, working three times longer than their designed lives and prompting controllers to give them additional chores.
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A slight increase of 2.1 per cent was registered in the number of passengers crossing between Malta and Gozo according to the latest NSO transport statistics covering the second quarter (April-June) of this ...
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The Mars Rover mission continues for six more months as NASA is funding an extension. The project manager said the rovers are &quot;well past warranty&quot; but are showing few signs of wearing out.
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NASA has extended the mission of the Mars Odyssey orbiter which has been studying and mapping the Red Planet since early 2002 as well as serving as a relay for data from the surface rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
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As communications with Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity improves because the planet has emerged from behind the sun (from Earth&#39;s view), NASA has extended the robots&#39; mission.
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European Space Agency -- Recent results from the ASPERA-3 instrument on board Mars Express confirm that a very efficient process is at work in the Martian atmosphere which could explain the loss of water.     Water is believed to have once been abundant on the Red Planet...
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An agreement designed to relieve congestion at O'Hare International Airport and ease airline delays across the nation will be extended for six months, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta announced Friday.
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The European comet-chasing spacecraft Rosetta has sent back &quot;beautiful new images&quot; of Mars after swooping over the surface of Red Planet overnight, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Sunday.
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NASA has announced that its Mars robots Spirit and Opportunity would work six months longer than expected. NASA made the decision after re-establishing radio contact with the twin rovers, which had spent 12 days behind the Sun.
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PASADENA, Calif. NASA thinks its Mars rovers just might keep going and going and going. The space agency has funded another extension of their mission, for an additional six months, if they last.
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During the last four weeks, the Mars Exploration Rovers have braved the Martian winter to continue their geologic field work, sending home more evidence of past liquid water on the Red Planet and images of bizarre geologic formations the likes ...
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Aging but still on the go, climbing in and around craters, tapping into the mysteries of strangely cracked rocks, the two roving vehicles Spirit and Opportunity have explored Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled.
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NASA has funded another extension of their mission -- an additional six months, if they last. Word from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is that NASA has regained reliable contact with the rovers Spirit and Opportunity
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Two US astronauts spent more than seven hours outside the International Space Station Wednesday working on its solar power panels as part of a huge expansion of the station&#39;s generation capacity.
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BEIJING, Dec. 23 -- Photographs taken from an European Mars Express Orbiter hint that volcanic activities may still exist on the mysterious red planet.
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The European comet-chasing spacecraft Rosetta has been sending back &quot;beautiful new images&quot; after swooping over the surface of Mars overnight, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Sunday.