MARS

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Increasing cosmic radiation a danger for Mars missions
Oct 23, 2014 (SPX)
Humans have long dreamed of traveling to Mars, hopscotching across the solar system and fanning out into the cosmos beyond. Several nations and private organiza...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Studies Comet Flyby
Oct 21, 2014 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has sent home more data about Mars than all other missions combined, is also now providing data about a comet that buz...
Mars rover had good opportunities to image passing comet
Oct 21, 2014 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured images of a comet passing much closer to Mars than any previous known comet flyby of Earth or Mars. The image...
NASA's Opportunity Rover Gets Panorama Image at 'Wdowiak Ridge'
Oct 17, 2014 (JPL)
The latest fieldwork site for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, which has been examining a series of Martian craters since 2004, is on the slope of a p...
Comet's Close Encounter 'One in a Million'
Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)
University of Arizona scientists have their eyes on Mars for the fly-by of comet Siding Spring, which will pass the red planet on Oct. 19, closer than any comet...
Mars One -- and done?
Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)
In 2012, the "Mars One" project, led by a Dutch nonprofit, announced plans to establish the first human colony on the Red Planet by 2025. The mission would init...
MAVEN spacecraft's first look at Mars holds surprises
Oct 16, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars and produced unprecedented ultraviolet images o...
NASA Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper Atmosphere
Oct 16, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars, produ...
First Light for MAVEN
Oct 14, 2014 (SPX)
After 10-month voyage across more than 400 million miles of empty space, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft reached Mars on Sept. 21st 2014. Less than 8 hours later, the d...
Humans may only survive 68 days on Mars: study
Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)
Space enthusiasts planning a move to Mars may have to wait to relocate: conditions on the Red Planet are such that humans would likely begin dying within 68 day...
MIT study finds 'Mars One' passengers could die of starvation
Oct 11, 2014 (UPI)
Mars One is a nonprofit that has plans to put humans on Mars by 2025, but doctoral students at MIT believe the current plans could put the colonists at risk of ...
NASA Parachute Engineers Have Appetite for Destruction
Oct 09, 2014 (JPL)
Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are bound and determined to destroy a perfectly good parachute this week during the lat...
Opportunity Preps for Comet Siding Spring Encounter
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards "Marathon Valley," a putative location for abundant clay minerals only a mile (1.6 kilometers...
Russian Scientists Develop Mechanism for Rover's Descent to Mars
Oct 08, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Russian scientists have developed a unique mechanism for the rover's descent to the surface of Mars, Lev Zeleny, the head of the Russian Space Research Institut...
Russia May Send Repeat Mission to Martian Moon Phobos in 2023
Oct 08, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Russia may attempt to repeat its mission to Mars' moon Phobos in 2023, Lev Zeleny, the head of the Russian Space Research Institute told RIA Novosti Friday. The...
WSU undergrad helps develop method for detecting water on Mars
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
A Washington State University undergraduate has helped develop a new method for detecting water on Mars. Her findings appear in Nature Communications, one of th...
NYT says it's sorry for cartoon mocking India's Mars mission
Oct 06, 2014 (UPI)
The New York Times apologized on Sunday for a cartoon that ran over the weekend disparaging India and its space program. The toon depicts a farmer and tethered ...
Four candidate landing sites for ExoMars 2018
Oct 03, 2014 (ESA)
Four possible landing sites are being considered for the ExoMars mission in 2018. Its rover will search for evidence of martian life, past or present. ExoMars i...
Europe shortlists four sites for 2019 Mars mission
Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)
The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday it had identified four potential sites for landing a rover on Mars in 2019 in its boldest exploration yet of t...
US, India to Collaborate on Earth, Mars Missions
Oct 01, 2014 (JPL)
In a meeting Tuesday in Toronto, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), signed two d...
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