MARS

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NASA Begins Testing Mars Lander for Next Mission to Red Planet
May 29, 2015 (JPL)
Testing is underway on NASA's next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016. The lander is called InSight, an abbre...
Science Drives NASA's Journey to Mars
May 28, 2015 (SPX)
"Repeat after me: Mars matters," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told the auditorium of participants at the May 5, 2015 Humans to Mars Summit organized by the...
Supersonic decelerator gets a lift to prepare for launch
May 27, 2015 (SPX)
NASA teams are continuing preparations for the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test off the coast of Hawaii June 2-12. This week the team completed a ...
New Project Aims to Establish a Human Colony on Mars
May 27, 2015 (SPX)
MarsPolar is setting its sights on the Red Planet. The project consisting of specialists from Russia, United Arab Emirates, Poland, U.S. and Ukraine has come up...
Could 'Green Rust' Be A Catalyst For Martian Life?
May 26, 2015 (SPX)
Mars is a large enough planet that astrobiologists looking for life need to narrow the parameters of the search to those environments most conducive to habitabi...
UAE eyes first Arab unmanned probe to Mars by 2021
May 26, 2015 (XNA)
The United Arab Emirates on Monday kicked off a strategic framework for its newly founded space agency that aims to launch satellite missions and the "first Ara...
New Project Aims to Establish a Human Colony on Mars
May 26, 2015 (SPX)
MarsPolar, a newly started international venture is setting its sights on the Red Planet. The project consisting of specialists from Russia, United Arab Emirate...
Curiosity Rover Adjusts Route Up Martian Mountain
May 26, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover climbed a hill Thursday to approach an alternative site for investigating a geological boundary, after a comparable site proved hard...
Rover Restored to Normal Operations After a Reset
May 26, 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 rover had been exploring the ...
Mars Rover's Laser-Zapping Instrument Gets Sharper Vision
May 26, 2015 (JPL)
Tests on Mars have confirmed success of a repair to the autonomous focusing capability of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars...
Is the Curiosity rover polluting Mars with methane?
May 26, 2015 (UPI)
Methane readings on Mars are once again sparking scientific controversy back on Earth. Recently, sensors on NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, registered a sizable s...
UAE gears up for Mars mission
May 26, 2015 (XNA)
The state-owned Masdar Institute of Science and Technology has set up a team of researchers in order to support the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to achieve its go...
Martian Reminder of a Pioneering Flight
May 25, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is studying an elongated crater called "Spirit of St. Louis" and a rock spire called "Lindbergh Mound" within the crat...
Martian impact crater or supervolcano caldera
May 25, 2015 (ESA)
At first glance, the region covered by this latest Mars Express image release appears to be pockmarked with impact craters. But the largest structure among them...
Exploring the 'Spirit of St. Louis' Crater
May 20, 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 rover had been exploring the ...
The First Martian Marathon
May 20, 2015 (SPX)
On Earth, the fastest runners can finish a marathon in hours. On Mars it takes about 11 years. On Tuesday, March 24th 2015, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity comple...
The Moon or Mars: Flawed Debate, False Choice - Part One
May 20, 2015 (SPX)
The Moon or Mars debate continues despite every single report or recommendation from NASA, NRC or other independent study that point to the Moon as the next log...
Flawed Debates begets false choices beyond LEO - Part Two
May 20, 2015 (SPX)
New technologies allow us to go back to the Moon at a fraction the cost of Apollo, and now, even private efforts like the Google X Prize contestants are underwa...
Technique for finding signs of life on the Red Planet
May 18, 2015 (SPX)
For centuries, people have imagined the possibility of life on Mars. But long-held dreams that Martians could be invaders of Earth, or little green men, or civi...
Auroras on Mars
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
One day, when humans go to Mars, they might find that, occasionally, the Red Planet has green skies. In late Dec. 2014, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft detected evidenc...
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