'S 'WATER ON MARS, THE SOUTH POLE ICE FOUND
(Source: Ansa )
DARMSTADT - (ANSA) - The European probe Mars Express has detected the presence of water as ice at the south pole of Mars, the European Space Agency announced.
During a press conference at the base of ESA in Darmstadt, Germany, Vittorio Formisano - one of the leaders of the Mars Express mission - said: ' 'We have identified water as ice at the south pole of Mars.''
press conference at the control center had been convened by ESA to provide the first scientific results mission, in orbit around Mars since last month.
PROBE THE SPIRIT SAYS NO MORE '
From Wednesday' American Spirit spacecraft, now on the red planet on January 4 and began his mission to the great, amazing images sent to Earth to Mars, not 'more' signs of life.
NASA scientists are very worried, and they speak of''failure''potentially grave, fearing that something is broken or that there is a fault, of course, impossible to repair.
If the death of Spirit will be 'confirmed, everything will be' now in the hands of his twin Opportunity probe, en route to the red planet, waiting to Mars over the weekend. NASA provides
fact that Opportunity will land 'on the red planet, at odds with where he is Spirit, January 24 at 21:05, now of Pasadena, that' at 6:05 am on Jan. 25 in Italy.
In a press conference at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, one of the program managers, Richard Cook, said that initially it was thought that the contact was lost to rain in Canberra, Australia where is the antenna that captures signals from Mars and California. But after the fact and 'appeared in all its gravity'. Another
responsible American Space Agency, Pete Theisinger, spoke of''very serious''failure, indicating and that''something is 'broken perhaps, oe' was a failure. We are very concerned.''
Communications between Pasadena and Mars are interrupted by Wednesday 'at 15:40 Italian time. A NASA press release, released in the evening,''he explained that the ground controllers were able to send signals to the probe Spirit, but have only received a signal confirming that the rover had heard them.'' No scientific data and technical support was sent instead of the probe.
Until now, the mission of Spirit was considered a real success. After having transmitted the first images, color and razor-sharp, the Red Planet, the probe was stopped in the crater, the Gusev crater, to examine closely the soil Mars, thanks to its telescopic boom with a microscope, camera and even a sort of Swiss Army knife to scratch the surface and multi.
The first scientific goal for Spirit was a rock as big as an American football, named Adirondack (named after a particularly rocky valley in upstate New York), who had begun to provide early indications on the composition of the rocks on the planet red.
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