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Inflatable 'Donut' to Bring Astronauts to Mars
Jan 06, 2015 (Sputnik)
NASA is crafting a donut-shaped inflatable landing mechanism, which will become the key to sending a manned expedition to Mars, AP reports. Leaving a human foot...
New Project Scientist for Mars Rover
Jan 06, 2015 (JPL)
The new project scientist for Mars Rover Curiosity is Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. Vasavada had been deputy projec...
Isro's Mangalyaan Completes 100 Days in Mars Orbit
Jan 05, 2015 (IANS)
India's Mars Orbiter (Mangalyaan) completed 100 days of its Martian orbit on the New Year's Day 2015 Thursday, space agency officials said. The Mars Orbiter was...
Russian space medic who led Mars experiment dies at 64
Jan 02, 2015 (AFP)
Boris Morukov, a Russian cosmonaut and doctor who led an extraordinary experiment in which volunteers simulated a flight to Mars while never leaving a Moscow ca...
Mars rover Opportunity suffering from 'amnesia' says NASA
Dec 31, 2014 (UPI)
Researchers at NASA are working to improve the memory of the Mars exploration rover Opportunity after a series of glitches in recent weeks led to what officials...
U.K. researchers plan to grow lettuce on Mars
Dec 30, 2014 (UPI)
A group of students at Southampton University in England are looking to grow lettuce on Mars. The researchers -- a combination of undergraduate, graduate and po...
Mars mission boost welcomed by scientists
Dec 29, 2014 (SPX)
University of Leicester scientists, who are closely involved in the European mission to Mars -ExoMars- have welcomed support from the Government for the project...
Tales from a Martian Rock
Dec 26, 2014 (SPX)
A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the planet's climate bil...
Russian scientists 'map' water vapor in Martian atmosphere
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
Russian scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), together with...
Flying over Becquerel
Dec 23, 2014 (ESA)
This latest release from the camera on ESA's Mars Express is a simulated flight over the Becquerel crater, showing large-scale deposits of sedimentary material....
New idea for transporting spacecraft could ease trip to Mars
Dec 22, 2014 (UPI)
Scientists say a new method, called ballistic capture, for transporting robotic rovers, satellites and astronaut-carrying spacecraft to Mars could save space ag...
Opportunity drives on in no-flash mode
Dec 20, 2014 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a location assumed to have abundant clay minerals only about a half-mile (...
NASA, Planetary Scientists Find Meteoritic Evidence of Mars Water Reservoir
Dec 19, 2014 (SPX)
NASA and an international team of planetary scientists have found evidence in meteorites on Earth that indicates Mars has a distinct and global reservoir of wat...
Australian university students aim to generate first 'breathable' air on Mars
Dec 18, 2014 (XNA)
A Mars One astronaut candidate and a team of Western Australian students aiming to generate the first breathable air on Mars have reached the finals of the inte...
Goddard instrument makes first detection of organic matter on Mars
Dec 17, 2014 (SPX)
The team responsible for the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on NASA's Curiosity rover has made the first definitive detection of organic molecul...
NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars
Dec 17, 2014 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a ...
Opportunity Flash-Memory Resets Continue
Dec 16, 2014 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals only about a mile (about 1 ...
Spike seen in methane on Mars, but source unknown
Dec 16, 2014 (AFP)
Methane, a gas that on Earth comes mainly from living organisms, has been measured for the first time making a sudden spike on Mars, leaving scientists puzzled ...
Mars Mountain was All Wet
Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)
Observations by NASA's Curiosity Rover indicate Mars' Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years. This sugg...
MAVEN Identifies Links in Chain Leading to Mars Atmospheric Loss
Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)
Early discoveries by NASA's newest Mars orbiter are starting to reveal key features about the loss of the planet's atmosphere to space over time. The findings a...
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