MARS

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Rover Conducting Science Investigations at 'Spirit Mount'
Oct 19, 2016 (JPL)
Opportunity is located at the feature called 'Spirit Mount' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, the first science waypoint of the 10th extended mission. The rover i...
Robot explorers all set for Mars tryst: ESA
Oct 18, 2016 (AFP)
Europe was poised Tuesday to place a paddling pool-sized lander on Mars and a gas-sniffing craft in its orbit as part of a mission with Russia to scour the Red ...
Ready for the Red Planet
Oct 18, 2016 (ESA)
Next week, ESA's ExoMars has just a single chance to get captured by Mars' gravity. The spacecraft and the mission controllers who will make it so are ready for...
NASA's MAVEN Mission Gives Unprecedented Ultraviolet View of Mars
Oct 18, 2016 (SPX)
New global images of Mars from the MAVEN mission show the ultraviolet glow from the Martian atmosphere in unprecedented detail, revealing dynamic, previously in...
What! - Go To Mars?
Oct 18, 2016 (SPX)
Just last week President Obama again announced his ambitious goal to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. His plan calls for a safe return of astronauts after visi...
Mars explorer duo on course: ESA
Oct 17, 2016 (AFP)
European-Russian spacecraft were on course for Mars Monday after crucial deep-space manoeuvres in preparation for a daring mission to find evidence of life on t...
Europe's Mars orbiter not sending status data: ESA
Oct 16, 2016 (AFP)
Ground controllers reported a break Sunday in status data from a European-Russian Mars orbiter after it released a tiny lander on a three-day trek to the Red Pl...
European lander starts 3-day descent to Mars surface: ESA
Oct 16, 2016 (AFP)
A European lander started a three-day, million-kilometre (621,000-mile) descent to Mars on Sunday, quitting its mothership to test technology for a daring missi...
Europe heads for Mars in search of life
Oct 14, 2016 (AFP)
Thirteen years after its first, failed attempt to place a rover on Mars, Europe reaches a crucial stage Sunday in a fresh quest to scour the Red Planet for sign...
How this Martian moon became the 'Death Star'
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
Mars' largest moon, Phobos, has captured public imagination and been shrouded in mystery for decades. But numerical simulations recently conducted at Lawrence L...
DREAMS of Mars: Europe's ExoMars Mission Arrives in the Middle of Dust Season
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
The joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 mission is knocking on Martian door to answer important astrobiological questions. While the mission's Schiaparelli module ...
Buried glaciers on Mars
Oct 14, 2016 (ESA)
This jumble of eroded blocks lies along the distinctive boundary between the Red Planet's southern highlands and the northern lowlands, with remnants of ancient...
Modeling floods that formed canyons on Earth and Mars
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
Geomorphologists who study Earth's surface features and the processes that formed them have long been interested in how floods, in particular catastrophic outbu...
How Mars' moon Phobos came to look like the Death Star
Oct 12, 2016 (UPI)
Mars' largest moon, Phobos, is well known for its resemblance to the Death Star, the mobile space station and planet-destroying weapon from Star Wars. Now, scie...
US relies on industry help to make 'giant leap' to Mars
Oct 11, 2016 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama said Tuesday the nation is relying on private industry to find ways to make the "giant leap" to Mars, with human missions on the horiz...
Opportunity at First Science Spot of its 10th Extended Mission
Oct 10, 2016 (JPL)
Opportunity is located at the terrain feature called 'Spirit Mount' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, the first science waypoint of the 10th extended mission. The...
Schiaparelli readied for Mars landing
Oct 10, 2016 (ESA)
This week, the commands that will govern the Schiaparelli lander's descent and touchdown on Mars were uploaded to ESA's ExoMars spacecraft, enroute to the Red P...
Visitors to Mars could develop dementia from cosmic ray exposure
Oct 10, 2016 (UPI)
When scientists at the University of California, Irvine exposed rodents to doses of high-energy charged particles, the test subjects developed cognitive impairm...
NASA's Opportunity Rover to Explore Mars Gully
Oct 10, 2016 (JPL)
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover will drive down a gully carved long ago by a fluid that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old m...
Versatile Chemistry for the Red Planet
Oct 07, 2016 (SPX)
When you need tools or parts for something you're working on around the house, you head to the nearest hardware store. Space travelers don't have that luxury an...
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