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Sandblasting winds shift Mars' landscape: study
Sep 30, 2014 (AFP)
High winds are a near-daily force on the surface of Mars, carving out a landscape of shifting dunes and posing a challenge to exploration, scientists said Tuesd...
Opportunity's Heading to a Small Crater Called 'Ulysses'
Sep 29, 2014 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards "Marathon Valley," a putative location for abundant clay minerals. The rover is headed to a n...
India's Mars Orbiter Cost Only 11 Percent of NASA's Maven Probe: Reports
Sep 26, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
India's Mangalyaan orbiter reached Mars' orbit Wednesday, becoming the first spacecraft from an Asian country to reach the red planet, but the country hit anoth...
NASA Rover Drill Pulls First Taste From Mars Mountain
Sep 26, 2014 (JPL)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected its first taste of the layered mountain whose scientific allure drew the mission to choose this part of Mars as a land...
India's spacecraft beams back first Mars photos
Sep 25, 2014 (AFP)
India's spacecraft has beamed back its first photos of Mars, showing its crater-marked surface, as the country glowed with pride Thursday after winning Asia's r...
CME Week: Coronal Mass Ejections at Mars
Sep 24, 2014 (SPX)
Looking across the Mars landscape presents a bleak image: a barren, dry rocky view as far as the eye can see. But scientists think the vista might once have bee...
Back to Driving
Sep 24, 2014 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals. The rover is headed to a n...
India wins Asia's Mars race as spacecraft enters orbit
Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)
India won Asia's race to Mars on Wednesday when its unmanned Mangalyaan spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet's orbit after a 10-month journey on a tin...
India Mars mission enters orbit
Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)
India's Mars Orbiter Mission on Wednesday successfully entered orbit around the Red Planet on in its first attempt, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced. "Ind...
India successfully testfires its maiden Mars mission's liquid engine
Sep 23, 2014 (XNA)
India Monday successfully testfired its maiden Mars mission's main liquid engine, a crucial step before the spacecraft enters Martian orbit Wednesday. The state...
Why India went to Mars
Sep 23, 2014 (SPX)
India went Mars because Japan and China had tried and failed and she wanted the glory to the first Asian country to succeed. The small cars sized Mars Orbiter M...
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft enters Mars orbit
Sep 22, 2014 (AFP)
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft began orbiting Mars on Sunday, on a mission to study how the Red Planet's climate changed over time from warm and wet to cold and dry. T...
India to enter Mars orbit on September 24
Sep 22, 2014 (IANS)
An Indian spacecraft will enter Mars on September 24 for scientific exploration of the red planet after a 300-day voyage through inter-planetary space, an ISRO ...
Two Martian Probes Set to Orbit Red Planet
Sep 22, 2014 (VOA)
Two unmanned spacecraft headed to Mars, one launched by the United States and the other by India, will soon reach the Red Planet within days of each other. NASA...
NASA's Mars spacecraft to begin orbit of Red Planet
Sep 21, 2014 (AFP)
A NASA spacecraft that aims to study the upper atmosphere of Mars and reveal how its climate changed over time is poised to begin orbiting the Red Planet on Sun...
India A New Contender in Asian Space Race or Technological Breakthrough
Sep 19, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
India's first Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is ready to enter the Red Planet's orbit on September 24, after a ten-month journey through space. The Indian Space Res...
NASA Mars Spacecraft Ready for Sept. 21 Orbit Insertion
Sep 19, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is nearing its scheduled Sept. 21 insertion into Martian orbit after completing a 10-month inte...
MAVEN on course for Mars Arrival Sept 21
Sep 17, 2014 (SPX)
Everything continues to go well with MAVEN as it is readied for arrival at Mars on Sunday, September 21st. All spacecraft systems are operating nominally. We ha...
NASA spacecraft to begin orbiting Mars within days
Sep 17, 2014 (AFP)
An unmanned NASA spacecraft launched last year to study the history of climate change on Mars is to begin orbiting the Red Planet on Sunday after a 10-month jou...
Martian meteorite yields more evidence of the possibility of life on Mars
Sep 16, 2014 (SPX)
A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite 1.3 billion years old is helping to make the case for the possibility of life on Mars, say scientists. The finding of a 'ce...
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