Mars Opportunity Rover Examines Rock With Unique Composition
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has discovered a pale rock that has a higher composition of aluminum and silica and a lower concentration of calcium and iron than any other...
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HOUSTON, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE: END) (LSE: ENDV) today announced that it had received United Kingdom regulatory approval for the Monetary Production Payment ('MPP'). Endeavour entered into the MPP in March with a group of investors for the purchase price amount of $107.5 million. The MPP will be satisfied out of the production from certain U.K. North Sea assets. The additional proceeds from the MPP of $64.5 million are expected to...
HOUSTON, Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE: END) (LSE: ENDV) will host a conference call and web cast to discuss its 2012 year-end and fourth quarter financial and operating results on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 9 a.m. Central Time, 3 p.m. British Time. To participate and ask questions during the conference call, dial the local country telephone number and the confirmation code 8741109. The toll-free numbers are 888- 708-5695 in the United...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a walkabout. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) "If you are a geologist studying a site like this, one of the first things you do is walk the outcrop, and that's what we've done with Opportunity," said Steve Squyres, the mission's principal investigator at Cornell...
HOUSTON, Oct. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE: END) (LSE: ENDV) today announced that it will participate in two conferences during the week of October 15, 2012. William L. Transier, chairman, chief executive officer and president, is scheduled to present on the company's business strategies and operational plans at the Energy Prospectus Group luncheon in Houston, Texas on Tuesday, October 16, 2012. J. Michael Kirksey, executive vice president and...
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) Spherical objects concentrated at an outcrop Opportunity reached last week differ in several ways from iron-rich spherules nicknamed "blueberries" the rover found at its landing site in early 2004 and at many other locations to date. Opportunity is...
HOUSTON, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE: END) (LSE: ENDV) today announced that it will participate in two conferences in New York City, New York, during the week of September 17, 2012. William L. Transier, chairman, chief executive officer and president, is scheduled to speak on the company's business strategies and operational plans at Imperial Capital's Global Opportunities Conference on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 1:00pm East Coast...
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The mission team for NASA's long-lived Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity will be awarded the Haley Space Flight Award. The team will receive the award Sept. 12 during the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space 2012 Conference and Exposition in Pasadena, Calif. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The award is presented for outstanding contributions by...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity teams are slated to receive the Haley Space Flight Award. The team will be receiving the honor September 12 during the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space 2012 Conference and Exposition in Pasadena, California. The award is being presented for outstanding contributions by an astronaut or flight test personnel to the advancement of the art, science or...
HOUSTON, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE: END) (LSE: ENDV) will host a conference call and web cast to discuss its 2012 second quarter financial and operating results on Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 9 a.m. Central Daylight Time, 3 p.m. British Summer Time. To participate and ask questions during the conference call, dial the local country telephone number and the confirmation code 2480825. The toll-free numbers are 888- 713-4494 in the United...
[Watch the Video] Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA, busy planning for the landing of its Curiosity rover on the Red Planet in August 2012, is perhaps getting into the Olympic spirit after the Mars Exploration Rover team announced Wednesday that another of its rovers, Opportunity, is on par to complete a Martian marathon. When Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004, it was only planned to travel a mere 2,000 feet (less than a half mile). Yet, 8 years after its...

