Science news articles about 'polar mission'

... a day after NASA declared an end to the Phoenix polar mission. Massive Martian dust storms are threatening the survival of NASA's Spirit rover, which has been exploring ...

A NASA satellite that spent seven years studying Earth's polar regions ended its successful mission Monday by plunging back to Earth on purpose to burn up in the atmosphere.

... launch vehicle. It was the vanguard for a set of coordinated missions known as the International Solar Terrestrial Physics ... the magnetic environs of Earth. Along with the Wind and Polar missions launched later, Geotail flew ...

Searchers looking for the lost ships of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Arctic expedition have discovered small artifacts and bits of human remains connected to the doomed polar mission.

Finding microbes that can withstand the coldest temperatures on Earth.