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How Much Contamination is Okay on Mars 2020 Rover?
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
When the Mars 2020 rover arrives on the Red Planet, one of its primary mission goals will be to select and preserve samples that would eventually make it back t...
One Decade after Launch, Mars Orbiter Still Going Strong
Aug 12, 2015 (JPL)
Ten years after launch, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed the Red Planet's diversity and activity, returning more data about Mars every week...
Mars Rovers and the Last Moonwalker to Invade Poland in September
Aug 10, 2015 (SPX)
Poland will once again host the biggest Mars rover competition in Europe. This year, from Sept. 5 to 6, the second edition of the European Rover Challenge (ERC)...
Salt flat indicates some of the last vestiges of surface water on Mars
Aug 10, 2015 (SPX)
Mars turned cold and dry long ago, but researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered evidence of an ancient lake that likely represents some...
New Online Exploring Tools Bring NASA's Journey to Mars to New Generation
Aug 07, 2015 (JPL)
On the three-year anniversary of the Mars landing of NASA's Curiosity rover, NASA is unveiling two new online tools that open the mysterious terrain of the Red ...
Six scientists to spend 365 days in HI-SEAS simulated Mars trip
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
The crew that will spend 365 days in isolation in the next Hawai?i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) mission has been selected. The six scientis...
Buckingham astrobiologists to look for life on Mars
Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)
The UK Space Agency has endorsed an experiment proposal submitted to the NASA ROSES-2015: The Mars Science Laboratory Participating Scientist Program by a group...
NASA Mars Orbiter Preparing for Mars Lander's 2016 Arrival
Jul 30, 2015 (JPL)
With its biggest orbit maneuver since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will prepare this week for the arrival of NASA's next Mars lander, InSight,...
New Website Gathering Public Input on NASA Mars Images
Jul 27, 2015 (JPL)
Science-team members for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are soliciting help from the public to analyze exotic features near the south pole of Mars. By categ...
Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock
Jul 24, 2015 (JPL)
Approaching the third anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before - bedrock with su...
Earth and Mars Could Share A Life History
Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)
While life is everywhere on Earth, there is much debate about how it began. Some believe it originated naturally from the chemistry found on our planet as it ev...
Antarctic Offers Insights Into Life on Mars
Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)
The cold permafrost of Antarctica houses bacteria that thrive at temperatures below freezing, where water is icy and nutrients are few and far between. Oligotro...
Opportunity heading into Marathon Valley
Jul 21, 2015 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading into 'Marathon Valley.' On Sol 4072 (July 8, 2015), the rover collected some targeted 13-filter Panor...
Curiosity rover finds evidence of Mars' primitive continental crust
Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)
The ChemCam laser instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover has turned its beam onto some unusually light-colored rocks on Mars, and the results are surprisingly sim...
Celebrating 50 years of Martian imagery
Jul 15, 2015 (UPI)
Fifty years ago today, the first image of Mars was beamed back by NASA's Mariner 4. The image, which was followed by 22 others, was first closeup of another pla...
Never Get Lost on Mars Again With NASA's New Red Planet Map
Jul 14, 2015 (Sputnik)
An application called 'Mars Trek', which was released by NASA on Friday, lets you explore the red planet from your computer or mobile phone. The volcanos and cr...
Opportunity Rover's 7th Mars Winter to Include New Study Area
Jul 09, 2015 (JPL)
Operators of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity plan to drive the rover into a valley this month where Opportunity will be active through the long-lived ...
NASA wants to send microbes to Mars to prepare for human habitation
Jul 07, 2015 (Sputnik)
As NASA considers the possibility of a manned mission to Mars, it may first send another lifeform: microscopic bacteria which could biologically engineer the pl...
Opportunity Gets Back to Work
Jul 07, 2015 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater at the 'Spirit of St. Louis' crater near the entrance of 'Marathon Valley.' The Earth-Mars Solar Conjunction ...
Could This Become the First Mars Airplane
Jul 07, 2015 (SPX)
When an aircraft makes its first flight on Mars in the 2020s, a NASA Armstrong innovation may have made it possible. A prototype of the Preliminary Research Aer...
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