MARS

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Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water
Apr 12, 2015 (SPX)
Mars has distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes in both the southern and northern hemispheres. A thick layer of d...
Mars' dust-covered glacial belts may contain tons of water
Apr 09, 2015 (UPI)
New research shows Mars' buried glaciers contain enough ice to cover the entire planet with a coat three feet thick. The evidence also proves the dust-covered g...
Team Returning Orbiter to Duty After Computer Swap
Apr 09, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, at Mars since 2006, made an unplanned switch on Wednesday from one main computer to a redundant one onboard, triggering a hi...
More evidence for groundwater on Mars
Apr 07, 2015 (SPX)
Monica Pondrelli and colleagues investigated the Equatorial Layered Deposits (ELDs) of Arabia Terra in Firsoff crater area, Mars, to understand their formation ...
Bill Nye and others discussing taking humans to Mars by 2033
Apr 05, 2015 (UPI)
Bill Nye and a group of space experts are discussing plans to get a group of humans to orbit Mars by the year 2033. Bill Nye, the CEO of Planetary Society, and ...
Curiosity Eyes Prominent Mineral Veins on Mars
Apr 02, 2015 (JPL)
Two-tone mineral veins at a site NASA's Curiosity rover has reached by climbing a layered Martian mountain offer clues about multiple episodes of fluid movement...
Warm or cold? Mars' history takes a watery new twist
Apr 02, 2015 (SPX)
A new, six-year analysis of water on Mars suggests that the Red Planet has lost the equivalent of an ocean's worth of water over the past four billion years. Ho...
Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology
Apr 02, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project will be flying a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space from the Navy's Pacific Mis...
Curiosity Sniffs Out History of Martian Atmosphere
Apr 02, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Curiosity rover is using a new experiment to better understand the history of the Martian atmosphere by analyzing xenon. While NASA's Curiosity rover con...
Flash Reformatted and Marathon Completed
Apr 01, 2015 (JPL)
The Opportunity mission is now the first human enterprise to exceed marathon distance of travel on another world. Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Cr...
Scars on Mars from 2012 Rover Landing Fade - Usually
Mar 31, 2015 (JPL)
A series of observations from Mars orbit show how dark blast zones that were created during the August 2012 landing of NASA's Curiosity rover have faded inconsi...
Rover Amnesia Event Follows Latest Memory Reformatting
Mar 31, 2015 (JPL)
The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity learned Thursday that the long-lived rover experienced a brief amnesia event related to its flash m...
NASA's Opportunity Mars Rover Passes Marathon Distance
Mar 26, 2015 (JPL)
There was no tape draped across a finish line, but NASA is celebrating a win. The agency's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity completed its first Red Planet mar...
Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars
Mar 26, 2015 (JPL)
A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of Mars fr...
Ancient Martian lake system records 2 water-related events
Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from Brown University have completed a new analysis of an ancient Martian lake system in Jezero Crater, near the planet's equator. The study finds t...
NASA Reformats Memory of Longest-Running Mars Rover
Mar 26, 2015 (JPL)
After avoiding use of the rover's flash memory for three months, the team operating NASA's 11-year-old Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reformatted the ve...
NASA rover completes 11-year Mars marathon
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has become the first human-made vehicle to complete a marathon on another planet -- a feat accomplished in a record time of no les...
Mars has nitrogen, key to life: NASA
Mar 24, 2015 (AFP)
NASA's Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a significant discovery that adds to evidence the Red Planet could once have sustained life, t...
India's frugal Mars mission extended by six months
Mar 24, 2015 (AFP)
India's famously frugal Mars mission has been extended by around six months thanks to a surplus of fuel on board the spacecraft, the country's space agency said...
Mars One's CEO Bas Lansdorp answers questions about mission feasibility
Mar 24, 2015 (SPX)
Mars One recently published a video in which Bas Lansdorp, CEO and Co-founder of Mars One, replies to recent criticism concerning the feasibility of Mars One's ...
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