Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - 1:37pm
We feel sad for the Phoenix Mars Lander now that its batteries have run out and it'll soon die of neglect. It's still got some time left, though, and before it goes for good, the Lander will be working a...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 4:21am
The Phoenix lander's mission on Mars is coming to a close. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is going to shut down the robotic explorer's survival heaters and essentially let the Phoenix "freeze to death." It's a sad end for the...
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:10am
When you send a robot to Mars, you've got to make sure it can handle the terrain without getting itself stuck. That requires a pretty robust vehicle. But you also want to be able to collect samples, and those...
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 10:28am
Thanks to a multi-national effort led by the University of Arizona and NASA, the team's intrepid geological robot on Mars, the Phoenix lander, finally sent back the message the science community has been waiting with bated breath to hear...
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 12:33pm
We've sent the Phoenix lander to Mars, now it's time to send the Moonstream bus-sized rover. Anthony Sims, a student at the Art Center College of Design, conceptualized the Moonstream rover after forms found in nature, such as turtles...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - 12:10pm
All the official scenarios for going to Mars involve a multi-person crew, and a return to Earth. But what if we sent just one man, without a plan to return him to our world? That’s an idea dreamed up...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 6:24am
Lots of people take issue with wind power systems. They're unsightly, loud, can be unreliable if the wind slows down, and their windmills kill innocent birds. A company called Magenn aims to change all that with the Magenn Air...
