Missions
Anticipated Joint Experiment with Chandrayaan-1 and LRO Failed
[/caption] A highly anticipated Bi-static radar experiment to look for possible water ice hiding in polar craters on the Moon…
Search for the Mars Polar Lander in New HiRISE Images
[/caption] We had an enthusiastic response to an article we ran in July about searching through images from the HiRISE…
Love Mars? Then This is For You
[/caption] We frequently ooh and aah over the images returned by the HiRISE camera from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and…
After Loss of Lunar Orbiter, India Looks to Mars Mission
[/caption] After giving up on re-establishing contact with the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman G. Madhavan…
Radio Contact Lost With Chandrayaan-1
[/caption] India's lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 lost contact with ISRO's ground station early on August 29. "We are not able to…
Mars Reconnissance Orbiter Goes Into Safe Mode Again
[/caption] NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself into a safe mode Wednesday morning, Aug. 26, for the fourth time this…
Mars Kicking Spirit When She’s Down
[/caption] The Spirit rover has been stuck in loose soil on Mars for several months now, and just as the…
LCROSS Anomaly Causes “Substantial” Fuel Loss
[/caption] The operations team for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission has discovered the spacecraft experienced an…
Latest LRO Image Solves Apollo 14 Mystery
During the second EVA of the Apollo 14 mission on the moon, astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell had a…
2000 Sols on Mars
[/caption] Another milestone for the Mars Exploration Rovers: Spirit has been operating on Mars for 2000 sols, or Martian days.…