Mars
Spirit Gets Ready to Explore
Image credit: NASA/JPL With Spirit safely on the surface of Mars, engineers at NASA are starting to get a sense…
Success! Spirit Lands Safely on Mars
Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA controllers confirmed that the Spirit rover successfully landed on Mars today. The spacecraft passed through the…
Get Set for Spirit
When Pathfinder arrived at Mars back in 1997, I kept a tiny video window open on my desktop to watch…
Eighth Attempt to Reach Beagle 2 Fails
Image credit: Beagle 2 The search for Beagle 2 continues. Operators announced on December 31 that the British lander had…
Spirit Makes a Minor Course Correction
Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA's Spirit rover made a slight correction to its trajectory on December 26, when it fired its…
Mars Express Changes Its Orbit
Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency's Mars Express completed a major orbit maneuver, bringing the spacecraft from an equatorial…
Martian Crater Could Have Swallowed Beagle 2
Image credit: Malin Lord Sainsbury, the UK Minister of Science and Technology reinforced today that they haven't given up hope…
Mars Express is Orbiting Safely
Image credit: ESA Unlike its missing passenger, Beagle 2, controllers from the European Space Agency know exactly where Mars Express…
The Search for Beagle 2 Continues
Image credit: ESA Controllers have made two more attempts to reach the Beagle 2 lander, which was thought to have…
Jodrell Listens to Mars, But No Beagle 2
Image credit: PPARC After NASA's Mars Odyssey failed to make contact with the British-built Beagle 2 lander on Christmas morning,…