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Terraforming the Red Planet: Nuclear Blasts Could Warm Mars for Humans?
Oct 06, 2015 (Sputnik)
Elon Musk, the head of aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, who had earlier come up with the idea of dropping two thermonuclear bombs on Mars, explained that this ste...
Curiosity Low-Angle Self-Portrait at 'Buckskin' Drill Site
Oct 06, 2015 (JPL)
This low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle above the "Buckskin" rock target, where the mission collected its seventh drilled ...
Curiosity's Drill Hole and Location are Picture Perfect
Oct 05, 2015 (JPL)
On Tuesday, Sept. 29, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drilled its eighth hole on Mars, and its fifth since reaching Mount Sharp one year ago. The drilling of the ho...
Students Advance Mars Airplane Concept
Oct 05, 2015 (SPX)
When you're designing an airplane that could one day be the first to fly on Mars, the answer cannot be found in the back of the book. That's one of many conclus...
Hitchhiking to Mars
Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)
Could some of the hardiest bacteria on Earth hitchhike on a Journey to Mars and survive after landing in a new world? NASA researchers intend to find out. A hel...
NASA's Big Mars Story
Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)
Every time NASA ballyhoos a press conference to announce an exciting discovery about Mars, the public bets heavily that the news will either be about water (Wha...
Search for Mars life stymied by contamination threat
Oct 01, 2015 (AFP)
A multi-billion-dollar robot dispatched to Mars to search for life must steer clear of promising "hot spots" for fear of spreading microbes from Earth, NASA pro...
Mars water find boosts quest for extra-terrestrial life
Sep 29, 2015 (AFP)
The search for extra-terrestrial life just got a big boost from NASA's stunning announcement that it now has its strongest evidence yet of liquid water on Mars....
NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars
Sep 29, 2015 (JPL)
New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. Using ...
Rover's Current Location Makes Communications a Challenge
Sep 28, 2015 (JPL)
Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater conducting a walk-about survey for clay minerals. The rover's current location withi...
'Strongest evidence yet' of liquid water on Mars: NASA
Sep 28, 2015 (AFP)
Scientists on Monday announced "the strongest evidence yet" of liquid water on Mars, raising the distant prospect of microscopic life on the Red Planet. Experts...
Evidence of brine 'flows' on Mars: water study
Sep 28, 2015 (AFP)
Curious lines running down slopes on the Martian surface may be streaks of super-salty brine, said the latest findings Monday in the scientific quest for extra-...
Opportunity Mars Rover Preparing for Active Winter
Sep 28, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is conducting a "walkabout" survey of "Marathon Valley," where the rover's operators plan to use the vehicle through t...
Celebrating one year of Mars Orbiter Mission in Orbit; Release of Mars Atlas
Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)
Mars Orbiter spacecraft marks one year of its life around the red planet today. After successfully completing one year of the mission life around Mars, now a la...
Space experts swoon for 'The Martian' despite inaccuracies
Sep 25, 2015 (AFP)
Surviving in space is hard and scientists say "The Martian" shows precisely what challenges astronauts will face on a pioneering mission to Mars, even though it...
NASA's MAVEN Celebrates One Year at Mars
Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft has been in orbit around Mars for one Earth year. MAVEN was launched to Mars on Nov. 18, 2013 f...
India's Mars mission to last many years: top space official
Sep 23, 2015 (XNA)
India's Mars mission will last for many years as it has so far not experienced any failures, a top space official has reportedly said. "Mars (mission) is expect...
The Fact and Fiction of Martian Dust Storms
Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)
For years, science fiction writers from Edgar Rice Burroughs to C. S. Lewis have imagined what it would be like for humans to walk on Mars. As mankind comes clo...
NASA's Space Launch System is the Rocket for the Ride to Mars
Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)
NASA is going to Mars, and here on Earth, the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is the first stop for building the world's most powe...
Opportunity Continues Search for Clay Minerals On Mars
Sep 22, 2015 (JPL)
Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater conducting a walk-about in search of clay minerals. The rover is operating in persis...
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