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Space Exploration: November 2005 Archives

Radar reveals ice deep below Martian surface

Posted on November 30, 2005 8:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

NewScientist.com news service

Maggie McKee

The first ever underground investigation of another planet has been performed by a radar antenna aboard Europe's Mars Express spacecraft. The instrument probed two kilometres below the Martian surface and found tantalising hints of liquid water pooling in a buried impact crater.

MARSIS probed under the icy deposits at the north pole, revealing that they are 1.8 km thick in the region studied. The deposits appear as a layer on the right of the upper image (Image: ASI/NASA/ESA/Univ. of Rome/JPL/MOLA Science Team)

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NASA's Spirit Rover Completes One Full Martian Year

Posted on November 22, 2005 7:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

NASA’s Spirit rover completed completed one full turn around the Sun on Monday 21, exploring Mars.

With this event researchers a completed a martian-year-long look at the Martian seasons.

“We feel like, weather-wise, we’ve just about seen it all,” said Sharon Laubach, the rover’s integrating sequence team chief, in a telephone interview given to the Space.com site. “We’ve gone through all the seasons, we’ve survived Marti winterand gone through conjunction…yes, we’re having a party.”

One Mars year is about 687 Earth days.

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