[Monday, July 05, 2004] Research aimed at teasing apart the workings of RNA enzymes eventually may lead to ways of monitoring fat metabolism and might even assist in the search for signs of life on Mars

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[Saturday, July 17, 2004] As winter approaches on Mars, Opportunity continues to inch deeper into crater "Endurance." On the other side of the planet, the Spirit found an intriguing patch of rock outcrop while preparing to climb up the "Columbia Hills" backward.

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[Tuesday, July 20, 2004] At the last meeting of the Aurora Board of Participants, held at ESA's Paris headquarters on Thursday 8 July, the participating states approved the Preparatory Phase of the European Space Exploration Program.

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[Tuesday, July 20, 2004] While rovers and orbiting spacecraft scour Mars searching for clues to its past, researchers have uncovered another piece of the red planet in the most inhospitable place on Earth -- Antarctica.

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[Wednesday, July 21, 2004] The question as to whether the UK should participate in ESA's future Exploration Programme [Aurora] will be debated further today when leading scientists and industrialists present their case to a distinguished audience of government officials.

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[Thursday, July 22, 2004] Sean O'Keefe today acknowledged the tough financial decisions that have to be made by Congress in passing the fiscal year 2005 budget, but asked the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations to restore more than $1 billion of cuts.

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[Friday, July 23, 2004] These images of ‘yardangs’, features sculpted by wind-blown sand seen here near Olympus Mons on Mars, were obtained by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the ESA Mars Express spacecraft.

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[Wednesday, July 28, 2004] This view from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera is an approximately true color rendering of the first seven holes that the rover's rock abrasion tool dug on the inner slope of "Endurance Crater."

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[Friday, July 30, 2004] These two images of the Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse were taken on 29 July 2004 by webcams set up by the NASA Haughton Mars Project on Devon Island. The left image taken from the outdoor webcam and the right image from one of the indoor webcams.

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[Friday, July 30, 2004] NASA scientists have modified a scientific Web site so the general public can inspect big regions and smaller details of Mars' surface, a planet whose alien terrain is about the same area as Earth's continents.

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[Saturday, July 31, 2004] NASA's Office of Exploration Systems has released a Broad Agency Announcement for Human and Robotic Technology system-of-systems that will seek research and technology development proposals in support of the nation's Vision for Space Exploration.

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