MARS

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ExoMars prepares to leave Europe for launch site
Nov 26, 2015 (ESA)
The two ExoMars spacecraft of the 2016 mission are being prepared for shipping to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ahead of their launch in March. A joint ...
Mars to lose its largest moon, Phobos, but gain a ring
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
Mars' largest moon, Phobos, is slowly falling toward the planet, but rather than smash into the surface, it likely will be shredded and the pieces strewn about ...
Study: Mars to become a ringed planet following death of its moon
Nov 23, 2015 (UPI)
A new study, published in Nature Geoscience, suggests Mars could become ringed if its smaller moon Phobos falls apart, as scientists believe it will. Recent res...
A witness to a wet early Mars
Nov 20, 2015 (ESA)
Vast volumes of water once flooded through this deep chasm on Mars that connects the 'Grand Canyon' of the Solar System - Valles Marineris - to the planet's nor...
NASA completes heat shield testing for future Mars exploration vehicles
Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)
As NASA missions to Mars progress with science and complex human exploration missions, spacecraft will require larger heat shields to protect against the extrem...
Curiosity Mars Rover Heads Toward Active Dunes
Nov 17, 2015 (JPL)
On its way to higher layers of the mountain where it is investigating how Mars' environment changed billions of years ago, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover will take...
Upgrade Helps NASA Study Mineral Veins on Mars
Nov 15, 2015 (JPL)
Scientists now have a better understanding about a site with the most chemically diverse mineral veins NASA's Curiosity rover has examined on Mars, thanks in pa...
Dust devils detected by seismometer could guide Mars mission
Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)
Buried in the shallow soft mud of a dry California lake bed, a seismometer was able to detect the tiny tilts of the ground as it was pulled up by passing dust d...
Swiss Camera Leaves for Mars
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
A camera designed and built at the University of Bern will leave Bern on Monday, 9 November, at 6:00 in the morning for Cannes in France where it will be integr...
Amnesia Event Slows Down Opportunity Robotic Arm Work
Nov 07, 2015 (JPL)
Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The plan ahead was for Opportunity to use the robotic arm to place the Alpha Partic...
Delving into the atmosphere of Mars
Nov 06, 2015 (SPX)
This issue of Science features four studies highlighting results from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, designed to study Mars' upper ...
Martian desiccation
Nov 06, 2015 (SPX)
Mars has been all over the news, from the blockbuster finding of seasonal water on the Red Planet to the wildly successful film, The Martian. Now, researchers--...
Shining a light on the aurora of Mars
Nov 06, 2015 (ESA)
ESA's Mars Express has shed new light on the Red Planet's rare ultraviolet aurora by combining for the first time remote observations with in situ measurements ...
NASA mission reveals speed of solar wind stripping Martian atmosphere
Nov 05, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian...
Signs of Acid Fog Found on Mars
Nov 02, 2015 (SPX)
While Mars doesn't have much in the way of Earth-like weather, it does evidently share one kind of weird meteorology: acid fog. Planetary scientist Shoshanna Co...
Rewrite of Onboard Memory Planned for NASA Mars Orbiter
Oct 30, 2015 (JPL)
Tables stored in flash memory aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) tell locations of Earth and the sun for the past 10 years, but not their locations...
NASA Chief: We're Closer to Sending Humans on Mars Than Ever Before
Oct 30, 2015 (Sputnik)
President Barack Obama remains committed to a 2030 manned mission to Mars, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Charles Bolden, Jr...
Martian skywatchers provide insight on atmosphere, protect orbiting hardware
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
Though the Martian terrain echoes some features of our own planet, the atmosphere is quite different: thin, cold, dusty and often stormy. Observing these condit...
Landing site recommended for ExoMars 2018
Oct 22, 2015 (ESA)
Oxia Planum has been recommended as the primary candidate for the landing site of the ExoMars 2018 mission. ExoMars 2018, comprising a rover and surface platfor...
You too can learn to farm on Mars
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at Washington State University and the University of Idaho are helping students figure out how to farm on Mars, much like astronaut Mark Watney, play...
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