[Thursday, November 1, 2007] The radar system on Mars Express orbiter has uncovered new details about some of the most mysterious deposits on Mars: the Medusae Fossae Formation.

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[Friday, November 2, 2007] Spirit is healthy and continues to investigate "Home Plate." After completing extensive studies of "Site 3" using the Moessbauer spectrometer and other instruments, the rover proceeded toward "Site 4."

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[Friday, November 2, 2007] Opportunity is healthy, with energy levels ranging from about 450 watt-hours to 475 watt-hours (100 watt-hours is the amount of electricity needed to light a 100-watt bulb for one hour)

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[Friday, November 2, 2007] With Martian winter approaching, the science and engineering teams have been hard pressed to select a site where Spirit can spend the winter.

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[Friday, November 2, 2007] Phoenix fired its four trajectory correction thrusters Wednesday for only the second time. The 45.9-second burn nudged the spacecraft just the right amount to put it on a course to arrive at the red planet seven months from today.

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[Tuesday, November 6, 2007] Onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the HiRISE camera offers unprecedented image quality, giving us a view of the Red Planet in a way never before seen. It's the most powerful camera ever to leave Earth's orbit.

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[Tuesday, November 6, 2007] Though atmospheric dust has returned to nearly pre-dust storm levels, Opportunity's solar arrays are still dustier than before the storm, keeping power levels about 200 watt-hours lower than pre-storm levels.

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[Tuesday, November 6, 2007] This week the Mars Institute is co-convening the First International Conference on the Exploration of Phobos and Deimos to discuss the exploration of Mars's two mysterious satellites and how their exploration relates to that of the moon and Mars.

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[Thursday, November 8, 2007] Space exploration is about to enter a third age where nations will cooperate to explore the solar system.

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[Thursday, November 8, 2007] After successfully maneuvering into position and collecting additional scientific data from the top layer of the ring of light-colored rocks inside "Victoria Crater," Opportunity drove even farther into the crater's interior.

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[Thursday, November 8, 2007] Opportunity is healthy and receiving an average of 685 watt-hours of energy from the solar arrays (that's enough energy to run a 100-watt lightbulb for almost 7 hours)

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[Thursday, November 8, 2007] Onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the HiRISE camera offers unprecedented image quality, giving us a view of the Red Planet in a way never before seen. It's the most powerful camera ever to leave Earth's orbit.

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[Thursday, November 8, 2007] "We are very happy to announce that MARDI and ChemCam's cost issues have been solved and both instruments are going forward to launch on MSL."

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[Thursday, November 8, 2007] "Dr. Stern gave an overview of the NASA planetary program, emphasizing the place of the MEP in the program. His fundamental support for research activities and for training the next generation of NASA scientists was clearly evident. "

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[Thursday, November 15, 2007] The goal of the TDU is to assemble the major components of a FSP system with a simulated nuclear heat source and conduct integrated system testing. FSP systems provide a potential option to support future human exploration missions on the Moon and Mars.

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[Friday, November 16, 2007] With ESA's Mars Express, scientists continue to gain new insight into the mysterious Martian environment. Some of the most exciting results are being sent back by the MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding) experiment.

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[Friday, November 16, 2007] Onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the HiRISE camera offers unprecedented image quality, giving us a view of the Red Planet in a way never before seen. It's the most powerful camera ever to leave Earth's orbit.

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[Sunday, November 18, 2007] I had a chance to visit ILC Dover last week to see the new inflatable habitat that they have developed. Together, NASA, ILC Dover, and NSF will put this habitat through a one-year test at McMurdo Station in Antarctica starting in January 2008.

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[Tuesday, November 20, 2007] During the trek to reach the north edge of "Home Plate" before the next Martian winter, Spirit had time to conduct only one scientific campaign.

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[Tuesday, November 20, 2007] During the past week, Opportunity continued to investigate the rock layer known as "Smith," the second of three "bathtub-ring" layers of rock inside "Victoria Crater." The vehicle is mostly healthy, except for a recent anomaly involving the rock abrasion

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[Tuesday, November 20, 2007] Opportunity is still parked in front of the rock layer known as "Smith" inside Victoria Crater. The rover has now lost two encoders that operate motors on the rock abrasion tool during the grinding and brushing of surfaces.

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[Tuesday, November 20, 2007] NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode Wed., Nov. 7, after the on-board computer detected that one of the solar panels was moving slower than had been commanded.

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[Wednesday, November 21, 2007] Planets such as Earth and Mars may have remained molten in their early histories for tens of millions of years. Findings indicate that the two planets cooled slower than scientists thought and a mechanism to keep the planet interiors warm is required.

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[Wednesday, November 21, 2007] Opportunity remains parked at the rock layer known as "Smith" -- part of the "bathtub ring" of rock layers beneath the edge of "Victoria Crater -- at "Duck Bay," the alcove where the rover entered the crater.

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[Friday, November 23, 2007] On 25 December 2003, Europe's first Mars explorer arrived at the Red Planet. Almost four years later, Mars Express continues to rewrite the text books as its instruments send back a stream of images and other data.

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[Monday, November 26, 2007] The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a new color image of the feature dubbed "Home Plate" in Gusev Crater on Mars.

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[Tuesday, November 27, 2007] These two images taken by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) show Mars' two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, as seen from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's low orbit around Mars.

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[Tuesday, November 27, 2007] Mars is often suggested as a good location to search for alien life. Despite many missions to the red planet, it's still a mystery whether life existed there in the distant past or if it is thriving there today.

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[Wednesday, November 28, 2007] A video from a Mars Society member (complete with logos) managed to get in on the CNN/YouTube debate among Republican presidential candidates held Wednesday evening in Florida.

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[Thursday, November 29, 2007] For each individual recommendation in these two reports the committee assessed NASA's progress and assigned an academic-style grade, explained the rationale for the grade and trend, and offered recommendations for improvement.

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[Thursday, November 29, 2007] Opportunity spent much of the week conducting ongoing studies of a layer of rock known as "Smith," part of a "bathtub ring" of rocks that circumvent "Victoria Crater" beneath the rim.

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[Friday, November 30, 2007] Onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the HiRISE camera offers unprecedented image quality, giving us a view of the Red Planet in a way never before seen. It's the most powerful camera ever to leave Earth's orbit.

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