MARS

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CaSSIS Sends First Images from Mars Orbit
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
The Mars Camera, CaSSIS, on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured its first high resolution images of the Red Planet last week. The Bernese camera worked almos...
First views of Mars show potential for ESA's new orbiter
Nov 30, 2016 (ESA)
ESA's new ExoMars orbiter has tested its suite of instruments in orbit for the first time, hinting at a great potential for future observations. The Trace Gas O...
Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, a team of scientis...
ExoMars space programme needs an extra 400 million euros
Nov 25, 2016 (AFP)
Barely a month after its expensive test lander crashed into Mars, the European Space Agency asked member nations Friday to cough up an extra 400 million euros (...
Opportunity team onsidering a new route due to boulder field
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
Opportunity is heading towards the next science waypoint on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 4550 (Nov. 10, 2016), the rover headed east about 39 feet (12 me...
Computer glitch blamed for European Mars lander crash
Nov 24, 2016 (AFP)
A tiny lander that crashed on Mars last month flew into the Red Planet at 540 kilometres (335 miles) per hour instead of gently gliding to a stop, after a compu...
ESA's new Mars orbiter prepares for first science
Nov 21, 2016 (ESA)
The ExoMars orbiter is preparing to make its first scientific observations at Mars during two orbits of the planet starting next week. The Trace Gas Orbiter, or...
NASA field test focuses on science of lava terrains, like Early Mars
Nov 21, 2016 (SPX)
Was Mars home to microbial life? Is it today? What can it teach us about life elsewhere in the cosmos or how life began on Earth? What clues will we discover ab...
Can we grow potatoes on Mars
Nov 16, 2016 (XNA)
In the Hollywood science fiction movie "The Martian," the astronaut stranded on the Red Planet lives on potatoes he grows there for more than 500 days while awa...
Dutch firm unveils concept space suit for Mars explorers
Nov 15, 2016 (AFP)
Dutch company Mars One, which aims to send people to the Red Planet within a decade, on Tuesday unveiled its first concept for a space suit to protect humans "u...
Meteorites reveal lasting drought on Mars
Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)
The lack of liquid water on the surface of Mars today has been demonstrated by new evidence in the form of meteorites on the Red Planet examined by an internati...
Opportunity heads to next waypoint at over 27 miles on the odometer
Nov 14, 2016 (JPL)
Opportunity has moved on from 'Spirit Mound' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. After several sols of collecting both Navigation Camera (Navcam) and Panoramic Came...
A funnel on mars could be a place to look for life
Nov 11, 2016 (SPX)
A strangely shaped depression on Mars could be a new place to look for signs of life on the Red Planet, according to a University of Texas at Austin-led study. ...
Novel Analysis Technique Helps Solve Beagle 2 Mystery
Nov 11, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists in Leicester have moved one step closer to understanding exactly what happened to the ill-fated Mars Lander Beagle 2, thanks to an innovative researc...
Iron-Loving Bacteria A Model For Mars Life
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
Single-celled microbes are considered a living example of the kind of life that might exist elsewhere in the Universe, as they are able to survive some of the e...
Mars' ionosphere shaped by crustal magnetic fields
Nov 09, 2016 (ESA)
Scattered pockets of magnetism across the surface of Mars have a significant influence on the planet's upper atmosphere, according to observations from ESA's Ma...
Schiaparelli crash site in colour
Nov 08, 2016 (ESA)
New high-resolution images taken by a NASA orbiter show parts of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module and its landing site in colour on the Red Planet. Schiaparelli ...
Six people to spend two weeks in Mars simulation habitat in Poland
Nov 08, 2016 (SPX)
A group of six space exploration enthusiasts plan to spend two weeks in isolation in a Mars simulation dome mimicking life on the Red Planet. The mission, known...
Opportunity makes small U-turn to reach summit of Spirit Mound
Nov 08, 2016 (JPL)
Opportunity is located at the feature called 'Spirit Mound' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, the first science waypoint of the 10th extended mission. The rover i...
'Millions' needed to continue Europe's Mars mission: ESA chief
Nov 07, 2016 (AFP)
The European Space Agency (ESA) needs "several hundred millions" of euros for its troubled ExoMars exploration of the Red Planet, director general Jan Woerner s...
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