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PlanumThis page contains recent news articles, when available, and an overview of Planum but does not offer medical advice. You should contact your physician with regard to any health issues or concerns.By Ashley Yeager El CapitanThis image, taken by the Mars rover Opportunity, shows the small cavities located on the region of Meridiani Planum dubbed “El Science News Discovery : The water on Mars / Massie Santos Ballon - May 30, 2008 ...“Meridiani Planum,� Tosca and his colleagues wrote in their paper, “may have been among the last, best places for life on the early martian surface. Inquirer.net, Study Finds Mars Water Too Salty to Sustain Life - May 29, 2008 ..."Meridiani Planum, this locality where the Mars rover landed, may have actually been the best place for life to have existed on early Mars," said Nicholas Voice of America Would you like some water with your Martian salt? - May 29, 2008 The measurements were taken on a rock on the Meridiani Planum, which means that there is the possibility that another location on the planet could have Ars Technica, New Study Shows Water On Mars Too Salty For Life - May 30, 2008 The region on Mars is known as Meridiani Planum, and is where the Mars rover landed. The study has been published in the latest issue of the journal Science dBTechno, Mars Probe Heading for Sea of Buried Ice - May 16, 2008 ...rover Opportunity, for example, had the good fortune to plop down into a shallow ancient lakebed along the equatorial region known as Meridiani Planum. Discovery Channel Indexes slump after yesterday's rise - May 13, 2008 Planum [PLNM] stocks made the most significant gains of 12.5 percent, but with a modest turnover. Foreign investors' share in today's trading dropped to B92, Salty Mars Looking Bad for Life - May 29, 2008 ...waters from the composition of the salts left behind both at Meridiani Planum, where the Opportunity rover found the remains of salty groundwater, Science Now, Scientists Revisit Mars Sample Return Plans - May 9, 2008 The two robot geologists independently have been exploring Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum for more than four years, yielding "an enormous wealth of Space.com Full Text - May 22, 2008 Results from the Mars rover Opportunity have suggested that opaline silica could be present in sulfate-rich sedimentary rocks at Meridiani Planum (4). Science Magazine (subscription) Where is the Mars Polar Lander? Maybe you can locate it? - May 17, 2008 It was attempting a landing in the Planum Australe (“the southern plain�), a southern polar region about 600 miles (1000 kilometers) from the Martian South iTWire, NASA: Mars Has Oil, WMD's, Evil Dictator, Terrorists - Apr 20, 2008 More unfortunately, NASA officials revealed, the Mars Rover Opportunity has simultaneously uncovered proof of present Martian life: the Meridiani Planum The Spoof (satire), NASA official: Cuts will mothball Mars rover - Mar 24, 2008 Opportunity hit pay dirt when it found evidence that salty sea once stood in the area now called Meridiani Planum. Principle investigator Steve Squyres said CNN Plenty of ideas blooming after Garden show - Mar 25, 2008 ...with which we're not bored yet, from Skagit Gardens in Mount Vernon, Wash.; and Eryngium planum 'Blue Hobbit' (technically, wouldn't that be a Smurf? San Francisco Chronicle, Martian X-Ray Data from NASA Helps Identify New Mineral on Earth - Apr 2, 2008 The mineral, meridianiite (MgSO 4 .11H 2 O), was named in acknowledgement of the cratered plain of Meridiani Planum on Mars, where one of the NASA robots is Azom.com Promethei Planum, perspective view - 12 Mar 2008 Promethei Planum, an area seasonally covered with a more than 3500-m-thick layer of ice in the martian south polar region, was the subject of the High German Aerospace Centre, Mars Water Was Very Salty - Feb 15, 2008 Minerals in sedimentary rocks found at Mars' Meridiani Planum by NASA's Opportunity rover suggest they formed in extremely salty water, even saltier than Space.com Was Mars too salty for life? - Feb 15, 2008 Knoll's findings are based on an analysis of the minerals sampled by Opportunity as it explored the Martian plain known as Meridiani Planum, where it landed MSNBC Mars Life Predictions Depend on Food Industry - Feb 20, 2008 The Meridiana Planum region of Mars once had water that was really salty and highly acidic, conditions incredibly hostile to any life forms that we know Scientific American Favourite performers - Mar 9, 2008 The easiest one to grow is E. planum, the flat sea holly, which self-seeds gently and produces vast sprays of brilliant blue, long-lasting florets that make ChronicleHerald.ca, Third Place | Graceful Exuberance - Feb 17, 2008 From a bee-attracting patch of Eryngium planum near the front of the house to the giant Hosta 'Sum and Substance' deep in the back, this garden is exuberant Seattle Times, Asteroid to miss Mars, only 1/10000 chance - Jan 11, 2008 Mars' Victoria Crater at Meridiani Planum is seen in this image taken by NASA's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera in this picture CCTV, BSE: Indexes take another dive - 17 Nov 2007 Novi Sad Dairy [MLNS] stock gained the most, rising 5.91 percent, followed by another dairy, Belgrade-based Imlek [IMLK] with 5.65 percent, and Planum B92, ISRAEL - Planum Vision creates first ever Train Cable UAV - Nov 6, 2007 Planum Vision from Israel invents a very original drone for spatial & fixed route overhead vision. Planum Vision has been created by engineer Ofer Rubin in Israel-Times.com, Europe eyes Mars landing sites - Nov 15, 2007 The list includes two sites at Meridiani Planum, the flat expanse near Mars' equator where Nasa's Mars Exploration Rover (Mer) Opportunity found possible BBC News, Potential Landing Sites for EU Mars Rover Selected - Nov 16, 2007 The list includes two sites at Meridiani Planum, the flat expanse near Mars' equator where Nasa's Opportunity found possible evidence for an ancient sea. Slashdot Experts Scout Next Mars Landing Site - Oct 26, 2007 While some researchers are eager to return Meridiani Planum for detailed studies of the rover Opportunity's discovery of an ancient shallow sea, Discovery Channel Students design Mars spaceship for NASA - Nov 16, 2007 ...from the Olympus Mons, a giant volcano, to Valles Marineris, Mars' largest canyon system, and Daedalia Planum, a large plain in the southern hemisphere. Oneida Dispatch, Mars Rovers: Scientific Staying Power - Nov 6, 2007 To get to that site within Meridiani Planum, the robot slogged roughly 6 kilometers from its landing site. "The longevity of the mission has allowed us to Space.com Gloomy day at BSE - Oct 22, 2007 Construction company Planum [PLMN] recorded the highest turnover, at RSD 20mn, with its stock sold for RSD 4200 per share, an all time high. B92, Mars probes’ mission extended for 5th time - Oct 18, 2007 In September, Opportunity began a perilous descent into the Victoria crater, in Mars’ Meridiani Planum region. On the opposite side of the dusty planet and Gulf Times, Mars rovers continue to reveal planet's secrets - Nov 2, 2007 This September, Opportunity began descending into Victoria Crater in Mars' Meridiani Planum region. At approximately 800 meters wide (half a mile) and 70 Telegraph.co.uk, Opportunity Studies Rock Composition And Changes In Atmosphere - Nov 5, 2007 Scientists think the band may be the remains of the original surface of Meridiani Planum before a meteor blasted out the crater. The ring itself appears to Space Daily, November Acoustics Meeting in New Orleans - Nov 6, 2007 And second, spatial auditory information seems to be processed in a neural region, called the Planum Temporale, in a way that can facilitate the segregation Newswise (press release) NASA extends Mars rovers' tour of duty - Oct 19, 2007 In September, Opportunity began descending into Victoria Crater in Mars' Meridiani Planum region. At approximately a half mile wide and 230 feet deep, The Citizen - online, Long-lived Mars rovers to keep on roving - Oct 19, 2007 Opportunity has been driving into Victoria Crater in Mars' Meridiani Planum region, giving scientists an up-close view inside the half-mile-wide, PC World Magazine, Edgy Science on Mars - Oct 9, 2007 The venerable Opportunity Mars rover is busy at work inside Victoria Crater at Meridiani Planum. This NASA robot is being controlled from Earth to study a Space.com Brain Center For 'Sound Space' Identified - Sep 21, 2007 The planum temporale region is marked with a yellow circle. (Credit: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The findings settle a controversy in earlier Science Daily (press release) Hear That? How the Brain Finds Noise - Sep 20, 2007 Previous studies indicated that a brain region called the planum temporale (located above and behind the auditory cortex) is responsible for localizing Scientific American Cerebral sounds - Sep 30, 2007 The results confirm the findings of an earlier controversial study of the planum temporale. Leon Deouell of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Aaron Heller spectroscopyNOW.com (subscription), Full Text - Sep 20, 2007 On the basis of crater counts, the surface age of Planum Australe is estimated to be on the order of tens of millions of years (11, 12). Science Magazine (subscription) Services set for David Schoborg - Oct 4, 2007 He was vice president and owner of Planum Excavation, a business he started three years ago. The other driver, Harold W. Fields of Falmouth, Cincinnati Enquirer, NASA Spaceship Scouts Out Prime Mars Landing Spots - Oct 12, 2007 Opportunity Rover, Meridiani Planum. Boring topography but fantastic geology. The discovery of sedimentary rocks and concretions (blueberries) are the most Slashdot Opportunity: It's in the Hole! - Sep 28, 2007 The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is currently studying the inside of Victoria Crater in the Meridiani Planum region of the Red Planet. SkyandTelescope.com, Full Text - Sep 20, 2007 Planum Boreum basal unit scarps reveal cross-bedding and show evidence for recent mass wasting, flow, and debris accumulation. Science Magazine (subscription) Rover reaches first stop inside Martian crater - Sep 28, 2007 A layer of light-toned rock exposed inside Victoria Crater in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars. Ground controllers planned to send commands late in the CNN Rover reaches first stop inside Victoria Crater - Sep 27, 2007 The rover initially set down on Mars inside the small Eagle Crater on its Meridiani Planum landing site, then went on to explore the interior of the MSNBC Opportunity Reaches First Target Inside Crater - Sep 26, 2007 A layer of light-toned rock exposed inside Victoria Crater in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars appears to mark where the surface was at the time, Science Daily (press release) Mars Images Reveal Few Signs of Recent Liquid Water - Sep 20, 2007 Liquid water does seem to have left its mark on some spots, such as Endurance Crater in Meridiani Planum, where the Mars rover Opportunity three years ago Scientific American Kentucky deaths - Oct 5, 2007 Mr. Schoborg was headed to Pendleton County High School for a job involving Planum Excavating Inc., which he served as vice president and part-owner. Kentucky Post, From Mars to his cold garage - Oct 4, 2007 ...a real mineral and given it a name -- meridianiite, with a double "i" because it relates to what may exist on the Meridiani Planum, an area on Mars. Ottawa Citizen, Crystal found in BC may also grow on Mars - Oct 4, 2007 ...find is a real mineral and has given it the name meridianiite, with a double "i" because it may exist on the Meridiani Planum, an area on Mars. The Province, Kentucky deaths - Oct 4, 2007 He was vice president and owner of Planum Excavating Inc., and a member of Christ's Chapel Assembly of God, Erlanger, and Operators Union Local No. 18. Kentucky Post, Two NASA rovers weathered Martian dust storm - Sep 25, 2007 ...months later on Jan 4, 2004 while Opportunity, launched on July 7, 2003 landed in the Meridiani Planum on the opposite side of the planet on Jan 25, 2004. Earthtimes.org Science Special Section: Images from Mars Suggest Evidence of ... - Sep 24, 2007 ...data to map out layers within the south polar plateau, Planum Australe, that suggest episodes of erosion occurred in between periods of ice buildup. All American Patriots (press release), Brain center for locating sound identified - Sep 21, 2007 Researchers concluded a brain region called the planum temporale was consistently activated, suggesting neurons in that region identify the location of ImediNews, Accumulation and Erosion of Mars' South Polar Layered Deposits - Sep 20, 2007 ...on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mapped detailed subsurface stratigraphy in the Promethei Lingula region of the south polar plateau, Planum Australe. Science Magazine (subscription) Lunar X Prize / Mars Update / Airplane Air - Sep 20, 2007 ...[Image courtesy of NASA/MOLA Science Team] The east-facing walls of an unnamed crater in Sisyphi Planum, near the south polar region. Science Friday, Mars Rovers OK After Dust Storm - Sep 5, 2007 Opportunity, in the Meridiani Planum region, has been waiting to enter Victoria Crater, a half-mile-wide hole blasted into the plains by a meteor. The Associated Press Mars Rovers Begin Atmospheric Observations - Aug 29, 2007 ...and analysis of abundant sulfate salts and other minerals suggestive of once-moist environments on the vast plain known as Meridiani Planum. Newswise (press release) Atlas of Morphology and Functional Anatomy of the Brain - Aug 13, 2007 For example, designation of the planum polare and the transverse temporal gyrus on the lateral whole-brain view does not give the reader the full AJNR (subscription), Layers Exposed in Crater Near Mawrth Vallis - Jul 19, 2007 NewsBlaze,...revealed layers that were previously buried beneath the Martian surface, similar to the craters explored by the Opportunity rover in Meridiani Planum. Mars: Impact Craters In Tyrrhena Terra Clearly Imaged - Aug 1, 2007 Science Daily (press release)The image scene exhibits three impact craters, located at the eastern border of Tyrrhena Terra with Hesperia Planum. The western part of the scene is It Just Impacted on the Surface - Aug 1, 2007 Space.comThe image shows three impact craters, located at the eastern border of Tyrrhena Terra with Hesperia Planum. A 21.7-mile (35-kilometer) wide and Rover in Peril - Aug 3, 2007 Astrobiology MagazineThe most recent communication from Opportunity, received Monday, July 30, indicates that sunlight over the rover's Meridiani Planum location remains only ESA's Mars Express captures images of Impact Craters in Tyrrhena ... - Aug 2, 2007 Malaysia Sun,The HRSC obtained images of three impact craters located at the eastern border of Tyrrhena Terra with Hesperia Planum. A 35 kilometre-wide and approximately Impact craters in the Tyrrhena Terra region - Jul 31, 2007 German Aerospace Centre,The image scene shows three impact craters at the eastern border between Tyrrhena Terra and Hesperia Planum. The western part of the scene is dominated by a Rovers Begin New Observations On Changing Martian Atmosphere - Jul 22, 2007 Science Daily (press release)...and analysis of abundant sulfate salts and other minerals suggestive of once-moist environments on the vast plain known as Meridiani Planum. Martian dust storms engulf planet - Jul 20, 2007 USA TodayAs of Monday Spirit and Opportunity were "both actively doing science" near their respective sites at Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum, but are now in an Short jaunts on Mars are long on discovery - Jul 7, 2007 Boston Globe,..."The hope is to have Opportunity have a look around and then get back to business on the Meridiani Planum," the plain that is the vehicle's area of Martian Dust Storm Intrigues Scientists - Jul 23, 2007 WISC,Beginning in the equatorial region west of Meridiani Planum, the storm moved into the heavily cratered southern highlands. It took roughly a week to grow Power Architecture Onboard Phoenix Mars Lander - Aug 3, 2007 Technology News Daily,The most recent communication from Opportunity, received Monday, July 30, indicates that sunlight over the rover's Meridiani Planum location remains only Huge Dust Storm Affects Mars Rover - 05 Jul 2007 TechShout!,...‘Opportunity’ is now parked near Duck Bay at the rim of Victoria Crater on Meridiani Planum and its highly anticipated and risky entry into Victoria Crater Huge Dust Storm Blackens Mars - Jun 28, 2007 Alalam News Network,...the storm has grown in size and is lifting up dust about 560 miles (900 KM) east of Opportunity, which is presently at Meridiani Planum. Planetary science: Mars at the tipping point - Jun 14, 2007 Nature.com (subscription),...discovered sedimentary depositional features on Mars 15 and models that support the possibility of sustained groundwater upwelling at Meridiani Planum, : |
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