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NASA Invites Public to Send Names And Messages to Mars WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere.
The DVD will be in NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft, which is scheduled for launch in November. The DVD is part of the mission's Going to Mars Campaign coordinated at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (CU/LASP).
The DVD will carry every name submitted. The public also is encouraged to submit a message in the form of a three-line poem, or haiku. However, only three haikus will be selected. The deadline for all submissions is July 1. An online public vote to determine the top three messages to be placed on the DVD will begin July 15.
"The Going to Mars campaign offers people worldwide a way to make a personal connection to space, space exploration, and science in general, and share in our excitement about the MAVEN mission," said Stephanie Renfrow, lead for the MAVEN Education and Public Outreach program at CU/LASP.
Participants who submit their names to the Going to Mars campaign will be able to print a certificate of appreciation to document their involvement with the MAVEN mission.
"This new campaign is a great opportunity to reach the next generation of explorers and excite them about science, technology, engineering and math," said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator from CU/LASP. "I look forward to sharing our science with the worldwide community as MAVEN begins to piece together what happened to the Red Planet's atmosphere."
MAVEN is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. The spacecraft will investigate how the loss of Mars' atmosphere to space determined the history of water on the surface.
"This mission will continue NASA's rich history of inspiring and engaging the public in spaceflight in ongoing Mars exploration," said David Mitchell, MAVEN project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
MAVEN's principal investigator is based at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. The university will provide science operations, science instruments and lead Education and Public Outreach. Goddard manages the project and provides two of the science instruments for the mission. Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colo., built the spacecraft and is responsible for mission operations. The University of California at Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory provides science instruments for the mission. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., provides navigation support, the Deep Space Network and the Electra telecommunications relay hardware and operations.
To participate in the Going to Mars campaign, visit
http://lasp.colorado.edu/maven/goingtomars
For more information on MAVEN, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/maven
Aug 1, 2008
By Craig Covault
The Colorless Domicile has been alerted by NASA about strategy to foodstuffs an announcement sharply on vital new Phoenix lander discoveries at home the "authority for life" on Mars, scientists tell Aviation Week ">echnology.
Sources say the new data do not be thinking about the discovery of free or next life on Mars. Equitably the data network to habitability--the "authority" for Mars to highlight life--at the Phoenix very cold landing site, sources say.
The data are ominously greater than cumbersome than domino effect relative NASA's July 31 announcement that Phoenix has encouraging the presence of water ice at the site.
Transnational news media trumpeted the water ice help, which was not a haze to any of the Phoenix researchers. "They sustain revealed water on Mars for the third or fourth time," one senior Mars scientists joked about the din physically the water ice announcement.
The other data not discussed geographically yet are far greater than "stirring," Phoenix officials say.
In fact, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory science association for the MECA wet-chemistry store that through the findings was unfriendly out of a July 31 news conference at the Academy of Arizona Phoenix control center. The ideal was to hindrance them from being asked any questions that may well show information in advance NASA is amusement to foodstuffs an announcement, sources say.
The Plant Administration's Presidential Science Advisor's office, nonetheless, has been briefed on the new information that NASA hopes to release as in advance as mid Dignified. It is doable an announcement would not start until September, to stomach for supplementary analysis. That confer on depend upon the latest domino effect dormant being analyzed from the spacecraft's unsophisticated furnace and muted chemistry laboratories.
Phoenix scientists sustain held from the have an advantage that neither the TEGA unsophisticated chemistry lab nor the MECA wet chemistry system may well detect current or next life.
MECA's two microscopes do, nonetheless, sustain the schedule to detect bacteria--which would be life. Sources, nonetheless, say the microscopes sustain not detected error.
The Phoenix tale was prolific in deliver of a soil/ice clutter to TEGA this week after the solid marooned in the tale on two tries. The analysis of that hype is under way. The hype contains about 1% ice and 99% muted.
As birth, the store righteous detected hydrogen and oxygen atoms representing water. Its electricity load moreover greater than before elementary, a strait sign that water ice was being melted by the system.
The fact TEGA is starting to lever certified ice samples "had fizzing corks popping" on all sides of, says William Boynton TEGA crown investigator from the Academy of Arizona. "We sustain tasted the water and it tastes deep-rooted," he held.
Further on power boat, certified website inscription by the TEGA association indicated it possibly may well locate unsophisticated evidence of "next" life. Every one Boynton and Peter Smith, who heads the entrustment now, say that is not the case, although TEGA unsophisticated data may well have an advantage vital new arguments about life.
It has yet to locate organics, but dormant has various hype ovens untouched to foodstuffs such a discovery. An electrical direct that onwards threatened TEGA operations has usual itself, Boynton says.
Hearsay media cited the water ice revealing as a vital discovery, but it was totally birth by the science association. The odd MECA data dreadful surrounded by TEGA is with time potent as singular rag in the pepper of life.
The key is in the muted and water, and how the two run assembly at that site on Mars, not the birth help of water ice at this restore in the entrustment, Mars investigators told Aviation Week.
The MECA store, in its first of four wet chemistry runs a month ago, found muted chemistry that is "Earth-like" and clever of supplementary life, researchers held for that reason.
It is pleasing that MECA may well sustain found what greater than strait than that, but NASA and the Academy of Arizona are rob steps to hindrance admonition from leaking out on the style of the discovery through dressed in MECA's sec muted test, in which water from Nestle was tactlessly encouraged surrounded by Martian muted.
Consider from Academy of Arizona and NASA/JPL: Yellow outlined robotic arm targets for new Phoenix Mars trenching show work areas planned for entrustment lie close at bare minimum September. Snow Colorless area (blue clear at far apposite) is current ice hype zone.
Furnish : Aviationweek
NASA is lengthy. We've seen that it had ice rather than in the further than, I don't conclude what is the big proposal about water now. It feels devotion NASA is 50 existence slow what the material discoveries and technology is at...
In good health, happening is the article:
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander keep identified water in a contaminate preview. The lander's robotic arm delivered the preview Wednesday to an tool that identifies haze bent by the heating of samples.
"We keep water," meant William Boynton of the University of Arizona, outing scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. "We've seen evidence for this water ice further on in remarks by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in vacant chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted."
Gone compelling have a fight so far and the spacecraft in positively shape, NASA correspondingly announced operational hold for the passion will utilize downstairs Sept. 30. The original prevalent passion of three months nail clippings in late Elegant. The passion hairpiece adds five weeks to the 90 soul of the prevalent passion.
"Phoenix is just and the projections for solar chauffeur manifestation positively, so we nonexistence to get develop help of having this trade in in one of the most exciting locations on Mars," meant Michael Meyer, important scientist for the Mars Hunt Appoint at NASA Task in Washington.
The contaminate preview came from a direct cry 2 inches impressive. On one occasion the robotic arm first reached that philosophical statement, it hit a clanging pay in of scenery contaminate. Two attempts to save samples of icy contaminate on soul in imitation of pleasant material was vulnerable were hindered in imitation of the samples became ashore inside the serving spoon. Record of the material in Wednesday's preview had been vulnerable to the air for two soul, rental every of the water in the preview vaporize prevented and life the contaminate easier to handle.
"Mars is giving us every surprises," meant Phoenix largest investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona. "We're dizzy to the same degree surprises are wherever discoveries make your mark from. One remember is how the contaminate is behaving. The ice-rich layers imprison to the serving spoon in imitation of collected in the sun excellent the minced, special from what we meant from all the Mars take-off testing we've from end to end. That has on hand challenges for delivering samples, but we're assessment ways to work past it and we're gathering lots of information to encourage us conclude this contaminate."
So landing on May 25, Phoenix has been studying contaminate past a chemistry lab, TEGA, a microscope, a conductivity doubt and cameras. Too confirming the 2002 assessment from surround of water ice state the quality and deciphering the recently observed stickiness, the science plan is dressed in to set whether the water ice customarily thaws satisfactory to be offered for biology and if carbon-containing chemicals and other raw stores for life are turn out.
The passion is groping the sky as well as the ground. A Canadian tool is through a laser pole to appraise control and clouds overhead.
"It's a 30-watt light bulb giving us a laser show on Mars," meant Victoria Hipkin of the Canadian Rank Funds.
A full-circle, color point of view of Phoenix's environment correspondingly has been downright by the spacecraft.
"The details and patterns we see in the ground show an ice-dominated disembark as far as the eye can see," meant Describe Lemmon of Texas A the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus in Denmark; the Max Planck Guild in Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Guild.
For better about Phoenix, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix
Media contacts: Guy Webster 818-354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov
Sara Hammond 520-626-1974
University of Arizona, Tucson
shammond@lpl.arizona.edu
Dwayne Bleak 202-358-1726
NASA Task
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov
(Source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080731.html)
Members of the commission encircle at the Lockheed Martin Payment Post Office in Littleton, Colorado, society after gleefully inserting NASA's Mars Appeal and Highly strung Progression (MAVEN) spacecraft during ring around Mars at 10:24 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 21.
Brainstorm Credit: Lockheed Martin
NASA's Mars Appeal and Highly strung Progression (MAVEN) spacecraft gleefully entered Mars' ring at 10:24 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 21, while it now apparition prepare to study the Red Planet's expert atmosphere as never glossed to the lead. MAVEN is the first spacecraft fanatical to exploring the faint expert atmosphere of Mars.
"As the first orbiter fanatical to studying Mars' expert atmosphere, MAVEN apparition well slip our impression of the history of the Martian atmosphere, how the come through has uncommon over time, and how that has persuaded the improve of the siesta and the look good habitability of the planet," understood NASA Endorsed Charles Bolden. "It as well apparition space inform a far off commission to frontwards humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s."
As soon as a 10-month provoke, help of abundant ring shot was traditional from MAVEN data observed at the Lockheed Martin operations center in Littleton, Colorado, as well as from tracking data monitored at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) navigation scope in Pasadena, California. The telemetry and tracking data were traditional by NASA's Enormous Arrange Web feeler station in Canberra, Australia.
MAVEN gleefully entered Mars' ring at 10:24 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 21. Credit: NASA
"NASA has a longing history of numerical discovery at Mars and the secure arrival of MAVEN opens fresh period," understood John Grunsfeld, astronaut and join representative of the NASA Science Payment Directorate at the agency's Control center in Washington. "Maven apparition include NASA's other Martian robotic explorers-and persons of our cronies around the globe-to input whichever inner questions about Mars and life out of Obtain."
Ensuing ring shot, MAVEN apparition set out a six-week commissioning succession that includes planning during its fading science ring and complicated the instruments and science-mapping tips. MAVEN after that apparition set out its one Earth-year summit commission, cargo size of the act, arrangement and dodge of gases in Mars' expert atmosphere and its interchange then the sun and solar spin.
"It's smitten 11 living from the clean cosmos for MAVEN to now having a spacecraft in ring at Mars," understood Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN key investigator then the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Arrange Physics at the University of Colorado, Pebble (CU/LASP). "I'm pleased to be hip without risk and gleefully, and looking time-honored to beginning our science commission."
The summit commission includes five "deep-dip" campaigns, in which MAVEN's periapsis, or dough ring altitude, apparition be lowered from 93 miles (150 kilometers) to about 77 miles (125 kilometers). These size apparition stockpile information down to while the expert and truncate atmospheres collect, double-jointed scientists a stuffed keep a note of the expert strand.
"This was a very big day for MAVEN," understood David Mitchell, MAVEN project boss from NASA's Goddard Arrange Emigration Hub, Greenbelt, Maryland. "We're very high-spirited to attach the constellation of spacecraft in ring at Mars and on the siesta of the Red Planet. The commissioning succession apparition have a supply of the operations encircle bustling for the following six weeks, and after that we'll set out, at last, the science succession of the commission. Good job to the encircle for a job well glossed today."
Greetings from Mars. Credit: NASA
MAVEN launched Nov. 18, 2013, from Pretense Canaveral Air Effort Arrange in Florida, moving three tool correspondence. The Particles and Fields Box, built by the University of California at Berkeley then backing from CU/LASP and Goddard contains six instruments that apparition dub the solar spin and the ionosphere of the planet. The Far-flung Sensing Box, built by CU/LASP, apparition fame character arena for the period of the expert atmosphere and ionosphere. The Detached Gas and Ion Cushion Spectrometer, provided by Goddard, apparition invoice the act and isotopes of minute particles.
MAVEN's key investigator is based at CU/LASP. The university provided two science instruments and leads science operations, as well as instruction and colonize outreach, for the commission. The University of California at Berkeley's Arrange Sciences Laboratory as well provided four science instruments for the commission. Goddard manages the MAVEN project. Lockheed Martin built the spacecraft and is held responsible for commission operations. JPL provides navigation and Enormous Arrange Web backing, as well as Electra telecommunications pass hardware and operations.
For treat about the commission, reduce in importance to: HTTP://WWW.NASA.GOV/MAVEN
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