MARS

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NASA could not deliver humans to Mars
Jun 09, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Landing humans on Mars is unattainable for NASA if the space agency's current strategy and level of funding are not modified in the near future, according to a ...
Big Brother creators to document Mars One mission
Jun 09, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The Dutch-based nonprofit Mars One, which aims to establish a human settlement on the Red Planet, has announced that it has signed a deal with Darlow Smithson P...
NASA's human spaceflight program doomed to fail: study
Jun 06, 2014 (AFP)
The US space agency NASA has been warned that its mission to send humans to Mars will fail unless its revamps its methods and draws up a clear, well-planned str...
Rover Corrects its Spacecraft Clock
Jun 05, 2014 (JPL)
Opportunity is exploring south on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaign in the northern part of the re...
NASA Should Maintain Long-Term Focus on Mars as Horizon Goal
Jun 05, 2014 (SPX)
Arguing for a continuation of the nation's human space exploration program, a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council concludes t...
LDSD Testing for Large Payloads to Mars
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
What will it take to land heavier spacecraft on Mars? How will engineers slow large payloads traveling at supersonic speeds in a thin Martian atmosphere? Can th...
New Mars Lander to Probe Interior of Red Planet
May 29, 2014 (SPX)
The U.S. space agency, NASA, recently gave the green light for the construction of a new Mars lander that will examine the deep interior of the Red Planet. The ...
A habitable environment on Martian volcano
May 28, 2014 (SPX)
The slopes of a giant Martian volcano, once covered in glacial ice, may have been home to one of the most recent habitable environments yet found on the Red Pla...
NASA Mars Weather Camera Helps Find New Crater on Red Planet
May 23, 2014 (JPL)
Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images. The images were captur...
Mars Curiosity rover may have transported Earth bacteria to Mars
May 23, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The NASA Curiosity rover that was thought to bring only cameras, sensors, and scientific equipment when it traveled to Mars in August 2012 may have brought alon...
NASA Rover Gains Martian Vista From Ridgeline
May 22, 2014 (JPL)
The rim surrounding Endeavour Crater on Mars recedes southward, then sweeps around to the east in a vista obtained by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity....
Mars mineral could be linked to microbes
May 22, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered that the earliest living organisms on Earth were capable of making a mineral that may be found on Mars. The clay-mineral stevensite h...
Opportunity Explores Region of Aluminum Clay Minerals
May 22, 2014 (JPL)
Opportunity is exploring south of 'Solander Point' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is exploring the region of aluminum-hydroxyl clay minerals see...
Construction to Begin on NASA Mars Lander Scheduled to Launch in 2016
May 21, 2014 (JPL)
NASA and its international partners now have the go-ahead to begin construction on a new Mars lander after it completed a successful Mission Critical Design Rev...
NASA's Saucer-Shaped Craft Preps for Flight Test
May 20, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project, a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle, has completed final assembly at the U.S. Navy's Pacific ...
When fantasy becomes reality: first seeds to be planted soon on Mars
May 20, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The first seeds germination experiment is about to be launched on Mars (Mars Plant Experiment, MPX). Greenhouse, small transparent cube, will be attached to the...
Cascading dunes in a martian crater
May 19, 2014 (ESA)
A new mosaic from ESA's Mars Express shows a swirling field of dark dunes cascading into sunken pits within a large impact crater. The mosaic was created from t...
NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Wrapping Up Waypoint Work
May 19, 2014 (JPL)
Portions of powdered rock collected by drilling into a sandstone target last week have been delivered to laboratory instruments inside NASA's Curiosity Mars rov...
MAVEN Solar Wind Ion Analyzer Will Look at Key Player in Mars Atmosphere Loss
May 16, 2014 (SPX)
This past November, NASA launched the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission in the hope of understanding how and why the planet has been losing...
Against the current with lava flows
May 14, 2014 (SPX)
Primeval lava flows formed the massive canyons and gorge systems on Mars. Water, by contrast, was far too scarce on the red planet to have cut these gigantic va...
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