The Planetary Society, in cooperation with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, invites young people worldwide to submit prototypes for the first student-designed experiment on Mars — a 2001 Mars Odyssey: the Student NanoExperiment Challenge.
March 12th, 1999
Mars’ happy face: Have a nice planet!
Mars put on a smiley face when a NASA spacecraft began snapping pictures of the red planet this week.
March 8th, 1999
Mapping The Martian Polar Caps
NASA’s Office of Space Science has selected a group of researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder to spend three years mapping the polar ice on Mars using satellite data.
March 5th, 1999
Have Robot Need Spacesuit
NASA has begun testing a new remotely operated planetary rover and an advanced spacesuit in southern California to see how robots and humans work best together in difficult terrains.
March 4th, 1999
Red Planet Beckons Stronger
Researchers at Marshall Space Flight Center have declared that a self powered Martian base is possible utilizing various local resources that would be mined and extracted to build power receivers that would collect power beamed from solar collectors in Mars orbit.
March 4th, 1999
This is the Year of Mars as probes target Red Planet Florida Today
If intelligent creatures inhabit Mars, they’re probably wondering where all the UFOs are coming from. In the summer of 1997, a probe smashed into the Red Planet, bounced a few times and disgorged a small robot vehicle that ran around sniffing rocks for several weeks – much to the delight of countless schoolchildren and millions of others back on Earth.
February 17th, 1999
CU-Boulder Researchers To Map Polar Ice On Mars CU Press Release
NASA’s Office of Space Science has selected a group of University of Colorado at Boulder researchers to spend three years mapping the polar ice on Mars using satellite data. The research team from the National Snow and Ice Data Center will create a “virtual sensor” by combining data from two instruments currently orbiting the Red Planet on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor satellite, said principal investigator and glaciologist Anne Nolin. The scientists will apply remote-sensing techniques to study the Mars data and help them to both identify the surface composition of Mars’ polar ice and plot its perimeters.
February 12th, 1999
Making Mars Liveable
Hearing how to turn Mars into a paradise for humans was just one of the reasons that thousands of astronomers attended European Astrofest 99.
February 11th, 1999
Mars’ hostile environment, possibility of life could block planet’s transformation Florida Today
Loretta Hidalgo’s tools are simple: 10 buckets of dirt from a Hawaiian volcano, seeds, water, sun, and time. Make that about 100,000-years worth of time.
September 12th, 1998
Dust covers Martian moon
One of Mars’ two moon is covered in a thick dust formed by meteoroid impacts over millions of years, according to Nasa. Images captured by the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft show the surface of Phobos has been pounded into powder by meteors.