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This page lists the latest news and updates from all the instruments, regardless of which mission it is on. The latest news is at the top, with older updates following. Use the check boxes at right to filter the updates to show only those for a particular instrument.
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THEMIS makes 60,000 orbits of Red Planet
Long-running NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has carried THEMIS for 14 years and nearly a billion miles.
See More +First ASU-built space instrument ready for final lab tests
The first space instrument to be built at Arizona State University has just received the electronics it will use in flight. This starts the final laboratory tests leading to its launch next year on a NASA rocket.
See More +THEMIS helps NASA choose site for next Mars lander
NASA’s next Mars space probe, a lander named InSight, is due to touch down on the Red Planet in September 2016 with a mission focused on the planet’s internal properties. Its landing place has been chosen with help from a Mars-orbiting heat-sensitive camera designed and operated at Arizona State University.
See More +Rendezvous with an asteroid: ASU to build mineral survey instrument
A newly announced NASA mission to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth will include an instrument built at Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE). The ASU instrument will analyze long-wavelength infrared light emitted from the asteroid to map…
See More +Engineering students help build instrument for NASA asteroid mission
Four engineering students at Arizona State University, three of them undergraduates, are gaining practical experience by helping to build a mineral-scouting instrument that will fly on a NASA mission to an asteroid. They are drafting the detailed plans for each of the instrument’s components and…
See More +Zoom around Gale Crater using your web browser
Explore Gale Crater, landing site for NASA’s new Mars rover Curiosity, using your browser!
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