NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander monitors the atmosphere overhead and reaches out to the soil below in this artist's depiction of the spacecraft fully deployed on the surface of Mars. (Photo Credit: NASA)
02 December 2008
Asleep in SpaceU of A scientists tried to contact the Phoenix Mars Lander over the weekend, but they now believe the solar-powered robot has gone into hibernation due to declining sunlight. Researchers will now focus on analyzing the new information they collected during the Lander's successful five month mission, before it slipped into a winter slumber. That includes data about what humans might have to do to fall asleep on Mars one day too. KJZZ's Marcos Najera reports.
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13 October 2008
For Space, Water's Not EnoughNASA has tapped ASU researchers for an easy task. All the scientists need to do is to make finding life in space, simpler. KJZZ's Tony Ganzer reports.
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26 May 2008
Mars Landing Picture PerfectMany scientists at the University of Arizona woke up this morning to start their first day living on Mars time. It's all part of a 90-day mission they'll start this week, after the Phoenix Lander spacecraft touched down safely on the red planet on Sunday. KJZZ's Marcos Najera reports from mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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23 May 2008
Phoenix Mars Mission LandingOn Sunday, the Phoenix Mars Lander will touch down on the northern hemisphere of the red planet. Scientists at the University of Arizona will then take full control of the first NASA mission set to to search for potential evidence of living organisms there by digging into the frozen layers of the Martian polar ice cap. KJZZ's Marcos Najera reports from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena near Los Angeles.
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21 March 2008
Mars May Hit the Back-BurnerArizona State University scientists have found a major patch of salt on Mars, which may hold life. But this discovery was paired with a tough fight to keep Red Planet research rolling. KJZZ's Tony Ganzer reports.
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31 January 2008
Martian Camp for International StudentsAll this week, Arizona State University has hosted a group of international students. The students from Nogales and China review highly detailed images of Mars, and they learn a little of each other's way of life, too.
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20 December 2007
Trading Spaces: Planet EditionScientists have called our solar system an impossible one. It's long been a mystery how some of the outer planets in our system, like Neptune and Uranus, could have the make-up they do...whilst being so far from the sun. A researcher at Arizona State University thinks he has the answer. KJZZ's Tony Ganzer reports.
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17 November 2007
Lights Out...To SeeAs Arizona continues to grow, astronomers say light pollution has become more of a problem. KJZZ's Mark Brodie reports on why that is, and what some people are doing about it.
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16 November 2007
Healing Dose of MoonbeamsOur Space Series continues with a look at moonbeams. The Earth's only planetary satellite has long attracted man's curiosity, and a venture just west of Tucson stands ready to see if moonbeams are the cure to some people's ills. KJZZ's Tony Ganzer reports.
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15 November 2007
Space Tourism: Another Arizona FrontierTourism is one of the state's biggest industries, and astronomical attractions are trying to tap into that. KJZZ's Mark Brodie reports.
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14 November 2007
AZ Space Research Under the RadarArizona is among the nation's leaders in space and planetary research, but much of what goes on here flies under the general public's radar screen.
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14 November 2007
Zooming in on MarsFor more than a century, Arizona scientists have led the search for signs of life on Mars. Next spring, they might actually find some solid evidence that it did or didn't exist. KJZZ's Marcos Najera reports.
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14 November 2007
Here and Now: AZ Space ResearchHere and Now focuses on Arizona's significant role in the exploration of space. Observatories in Northern and Southern Arizona scan the skies as will a new NASA space telescope being developed in conjunction with the University of Arizona. U of A and ASU also play major roles in the search for life on Mars.
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13 November 2007
Arizona and Space, a desert frontierKicking off KJZZ's Space Week, Dennis Lambert speaks with Paul Davies and Kip Hodges, two space-wise professors from ASU, to get a sense of why space really matters. Produced by Tony Ganzer.
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