MARS

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Mars Express views moons set against Saturn's rings
Mar 02, 2018 (ESA)
Mars' two small moons are intriguing objects. While we know something of their size, appearance and position thanks to spacecraft such as ESA's Mars Express, mu...
Curiosity tests a new way to drill on Mars
Mar 01, 2018 (JPL)
This early test produced a hole about a half-inch (1-centimeter) deep at a target called Lake Orcadie - not enough for a full scientific sample, but enough to v...
NASA InSight mission to Mars arrives at launch site
Feb 28, 2018 (JPL)
The launch period for InSight opens May 5 and continues through June 8. InSight will be the first mission to look deep beneath the Martian surface, studying the...
Life in world's driest desert seen as sign of potential life on Mars
Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists have long wondered whether microbes in the soil of this hyperarid environment, the most similar place on Earth to the Martian surface, are permanent ...
Atacama Desert study offers glimpse of what life on Mars could look like
Feb 27, 2018 (UPI)
South America's Atacama Desert is the most Martian-like ecosystem found on Earth. During their survey of the hyperarid environment, researchers from Washington ...
Dormant desert life hints at possibilities on Mars
Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)
The desert, which spans parts of Chile and Peru, is the driest non-polar desert on Earth and may contain the environment most like that of the Red Planet, said ...
A brief history of Martian exploration - as the InSight Lander prepares to launch
Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)
InSight will join two rovers currently exploring the surface of Mars, and 14 spacecraft that are in orbit about it - albeit only six of which are currently send...
Mars Odyssey Observes Martian Moons
Feb 26, 2018 (JPL)
The images were taken in visible-wavelength light. THEMIS also recorded thermal-infrared imagery in the same scan. The apparent motion is due to progression of ...
Opportunity Celebrates 5,000 Days on Mars, Snaps First 'Selfie'
Feb 26, 2018 (JPL)
The rover is positioned about half way down the valley. This past week the rover exceeded 5,000 sols (or days) on the surface of Mars. To commemorate Sol 5000 (...
Seven ways Mars InSight is different
Feb 23, 2018 (JPL)
NASA has a long and successful track record at Mars. Since 1965, it has flown by, orbited, landed and roved across the surface of the Red Planet. What can InSig...
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ready to start sniffing the methane
Feb 22, 2018 (ESA)
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter arrived at Mars in October 2016 to investigate the potentially biological or geological origin of trace gases in the atmosphere. I...
Nearly a Decade After Mars Phoenix Landed, Another Look
Feb 22, 2018 (JPL)
The Phoenix lander itself, plus its back shell and parachute, are still visible in the image taken Dec. 21, 2017, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experim...
Opportunity Continues to Benefit from Dust Cleaning of the Solar Panels
Feb 21, 2018 (JPL)
The rover is positioned on the north fork of a local flow channel about half way down the valley. Improved energy levels from dust cleaning of the solar arrays ...
Oppy Takes A Selfie To Mark Sol 5000
Feb 16, 2018 (JPL)
"Five thousand sols after the start of our 90-sol mission, this amazing rover is still showing us surprises on Mars," said Opportunity Project Manager John Call...
Mars Rover Opportunity Reaches 5000 Sols On Mars
Feb 16, 2018 (JPL)
The ground texture seen in recent images from the rover resembles a smudged version of very distinctive stone stripes on some mountain slopes on Earth that resu...
A Piece of Mars is Going Home
Feb 14, 2018 (JPL)
Mars 2020's goal is ambitious: collect samples from the Red Planet's surface that a future mission could potentially return to Earth. One of the rover's many to...
Danish architect envisions life on Mars
Feb 14, 2018 (XNA)
Bjarke Ingels, named by Time magazine in 2016 as among the "100 Most Influential People in the World," said he had already been working at the first step of hum...
Leaky Atmosphere Linked To Lightweight Planet
Feb 13, 2018 (ESA)
Why the atmospheres of the rocky planets in the inner Solar System evolved so differently over 4.6 billion years is key to understanding what makes a planet hab...
Mars Opportunity Rover Energy Levels Improve
Feb 13, 2018 (JPL)
The rover has moved along the north fork of a local flow channel about half way down the valley. Greatly improved energy levels from dust cleaning of the solar ...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter preparing for years ahead
Feb 12, 2018 (JPL)
The spacecraft already has worked more than double its planned mission life since launch in 2005. NASA plans to keep using it past the mid-2020s. Increased reli...
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