MARS

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One-way trip to Mars? Sign me up, says Frenchwoman
Jan 07, 2014 (AFP)
A comfortable, middle-class Parisian life may be the envy of many people, but Florence Porcel would give it all up to be among the first Earthlings to settle on...
Clues from Orbit Aiding Exploration Of Opportunity Rover
Jan 06, 2014 (JPL)
The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for energy production. Opportunity is positioned on the edge of an exposed outcrop where orbital observations...
Decade-Old Rover Adventure Continues on Mars and Earth
Jan 06, 2014 (JPL)
Eighth graders didn't have Facebook or Twitter to share news back then, in January 2004. Bekah Sosland, 14 at the time, learned about a NASA rover landing on Ma...
More than 1,000 chosen for one-way Mars reality-TV mission
Jan 02, 2014 (AFP)
More than 1,000 candidates -- from 200,000 hopefuls -- have been chosen to train for a private Mars colonisation mission to be partly funded by a reality-TV sho...
Potential Martians: Mars One selects 1,058 hopefuls among 200,000 applicants
Jan 01, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The Mars One project has announced the selection of 1,058 hopefuls from over 200,000 applicants to become potential "human ambassadors" on the Red Planet. Event...
'Mars One' will reveal if there is life outside Earth
Dec 31, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Mars One is a non-profit organization that plans to establish a permanent human colony on Mars by 2025. The private spaceflight project is led by Dutch entrepre...
Mars One mission: big work ahead
Dec 31, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Around 200,000 people have applied for a one-way mission to Mars, though it's still pretty unclear if and when the ambitious project to colonize the "red planet...
Curious Results from Mars
Dec 27, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on Mars with dramatic style in August, 2012. Now that the rover has spent more than a year exploring the martian surface, sc...
ISRO end year on high note after Mars mission
Dec 26, 2013 (IANS)
The successful launch of India's first inter-planetary Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), the sending up of India's first navigation satellite midnight, the launch of ...
Mars Express heading towards daring flyby of Phobos
Dec 25, 2013 (ESA)
Late this month, ESA's Mars Express will make the closest flyby yet of the Red Planet's largest moon Phobos, skimming past at only 45 km above its surface. The ...
Mars One mission: one way ticket to new life
Dec 23, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
200,000 people from 140 countries have applied for a one-way ticket to Mars. The applicants agreed to stay on the Red Planet for the rest of their lives and be ...
Curiosity Team Upgrades Software, Checks Wheel Wear
Dec 21, 2013 (JPL)
The team operating NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed a software upgrade on the vehicle and is next planning a check of wear and tear on the rover's whee...
Mars rover Curiosity gets software upgrade, improved capabilities
Dec 20, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says its Mars rover Curiosity has had a technology "tuneup," a software upgrade that will advance the rover's capabilities. "Curiosity is now operating on ...
New Views of Mars from Sediment Mineralogy
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
The first detailed examination of clay mineralogy in its original setting on Mars is offering new insights on the planet's past habitability, research led by Pl...
Opportunity Communications Remain Slow Due To Odyssey Issues
Dec 17, 2013 (JPL)
Opportunity is up on 'Solander Point' at the rim of 'Endeavour Crater.' The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production. Mars ...
Ancient fresh water lake on Mars could have sustained life
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have found evidence that there was once an ancient lake on Mars that may have been able to support life, in research published in the journal Science...
Mars One Selects Lockheed Martin to Study First Private Unmanned Mission to Mars
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
Mars One has selected Lockheed Martin to develop a mission concept study for its Mars lander spacecraft. The lander will be based on the successful 2007 NASA Ph...
SwRI scientists publish first radiation measurements from the surface of Mars
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
In the first 300 days of the Mars Science Laboratory surface mission, the Curiosity rover cruised around the planet's Gale Crater, collecting soil samples and i...
NASA Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help
Dec 13, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions. In a litt...
The Tough Task of Finding Fossils While Wearing a Spacesuit
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
Someday, human explorers might momentously discover fossils on Mars, proving that the Red Planet once supported extraterrestrial life. An interplanetary expedit...
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