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To Mars with MER - New & Now

New & Now 2002

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December 2002

More Water Found on Mars - December 11, 2002
http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2002/wet_mars.html

Roving the Red Planet: Current and Future Missions - December 10, 2002
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/225.cfm

Dark Streaks on Martian Slopes May Signal Active Water - December 9, 2002
http://uanews.opi.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID=6501

NASA Twins Plan Martian Ramble - December 9, 2002
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_223.cfm

The Weathermen of Mars - December 9, 2002
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-12/danl-two120902.php

NASA's Revealing Odyssey - December 7, 2002
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_221.cfm

NASA Selects Four Mars Scout Mission Concepts for Study - December 6, 2002
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2002/02-238.txt

Candidate Mission Would Scan Mars Atmosphere for Signs of Life - December 6, 2002
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_219.cfm

Scientists Say Ancient Asteroids, Comets May Have Caused Mars Rain - December 5, 2002
http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2002/02_126AR.html

November 2002

Mars Rover Takes Baby Steps - November 12, 2002
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/features/rovers_111202.cfm

October 2002

September 2002

Five Year Retrospective: Mars Pathfinder - September 27, 2002
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article282.html

Climate model for Earth also describes changes on Mars - September 25, 2002
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2002-03/02-019.html

August 2002

First View of Mars in X-rays - August 21, 2002
http://skyandtelescope.com/news/current/article_715_1.asp

Rehearsal Readies Scientists For NASA's Next Mars Landing - August 20, 2002
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars2003-02b.html

Fostering the Next Generation of Mars Explorers - August 16, 2002
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/msip01.html

To Distill Some Water - August 9, 2002
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/09aug_marstale.htm?list711920

July 2002

June 2002

NASA Selects 28 Scientists For Mars Rover Mission - June 5, 2002
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars2003-02a.html

May 2002

Found it! Ice on Mars - May 28, 2002
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/28may_marsice.htm?list53217

April 2002

March 2002

How to Land Softly on a Hard Planet--March 15, 2002
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/features/airbags.html

MARIE is Back! Space Radiation More Intense Than Believed--March 15, 2002
http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2002/MARIE_Is_Back.htm

Martian Surface Features Were Eroded by Liquid Carbon Dioxide, not Running Water, Researchers Say--March 12, 2002
http://passporttoknowledge.com/mars/newnow/erosion.html

2nd-biggest meteorite from Mars found by JARE--March 9, 2002
http://passporttoknowledge.com/mars/newnow/jare.html

University of Dayton Geologist Recreates 'Life on Mars' Evidence in Her Laboratory--March 12, 2002
http://www.udayton.edu/news/nr/030502.html

Mars Odyssey’s neutron spectrometer maps water-ice--March 4, 2002
http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/newsbulletin/2002/03/04/text1.shtml

Observation of large amounts of ice on Mars--March 1, 2002
http://grs.lpl.arizona.edu/results/presscon1/

NASA's Mars Odyssey Spacecraft Unveils Early Science Result--March 1, 2002
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/newsroom/pressreleases/02mar01.html

February 2002

Searching Antarctic Ice for Meteorites--February 28, 2002
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Feb02/meteoriteSearch.html

Floods at Mars' Equator Are Recent, UA Scientists Say--February 19, 2002
http://uanews.opi.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID=5011

UA Team Opens Door For Mars Odyssey Science--February 19, 2002
http://uanews.opi.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/SRStoryDetails?ArticleID=5009

Scientists, Children Eager For Deeper Look At Mars--February 15, 2002
http://passporttoknowledge.com/mars/newnow/themis.html

Scientists, Children Eager For Deeper Look At Mars--February 15, 2002
http://passporttoknowledge.com/mars/newnow/themis.html

To Antarctica and beyond--February 5, 2002
http://chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0202060383feb06.story?coll=chi%2Dnewslocal%2Dhed

Four sites considered for landers--February 5, 2002
http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/localstoryA11114A.htm

January 2002

More Pieces of Mars Found--January 28, 2002
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020128/meteorite.html

Three New Mars Meteorites Found--January 20, 2002
http://passporttoknowledge.com/mars/newnow/threemeteorites.html

Simulating The Martian Surface At The Bottom Of The World--January 18, 2002
http://passporttoknowledge.com/mars/newnow/martiansurface.html

Newly Discovered Antarctic Microbes Suggest Life is Possible in Terrains on Mars--January 14, 2002
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/02-jan-14.html

Happy Navigators Prepare to Say "Goodnight and Goodbye" to Odyssey's Successful Aerobraking--January 11, 2002
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/aeroendAll.html

Mars Odyssey Mission Status--January 11, 2002
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_10.html

A robotic bug's life: to study Mars--January 8, 2002
http://www.umr.edu/~newsinfo/spacebug.html