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NASA to probe why Mars lost its atmosphere
Oct 28, 2013 (AFP)
NASA said Monday it is on track to launch its Maven probe to Mars next month to find out why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere. The unmanned spaceship ...
Mars Rover Opportunity Heads Uphill
Oct 24, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover has begun climbing "Solander Point," the northern tip of the tallest hill it has encountered in the mission's nearly 10 Earth year...
Scientists discover how the atmosphere of Mars turned to stone
Oct 24, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, the University of Glasgow and the Natural History Museum in London may have discovered ho...
Mars Crater May Actually Be Ancient Supervolcano
Oct 24, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists from NASA and the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., have identified what could be a supervolcano on Mars-the first discovery of its kind....
MAVEN Launch Preps on Schedule
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
MAVEN launch preparations remain on schedule and have continued to go well since spacecraft processing resumed earlier this month. On Tuesday, Oct. 22, MAVEN is...
India sets November 5 for Mars mission launch
Oct 22, 2013 (AFP)
Scientists on Tuesday set November 5 for the delayed launch of India's first mission to Mars, which was postponed due to problems in positioning a seaborne trac...
Phobos-Grunt-2: Russia to probe Martian moon by 2022
Oct 18, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Russia is set to launch a probe to the Martian moon Phobos by 2022, the head of the Russian Space Research Institute has revealed. The renewal of the ambitious ...
Heading to a High Slope for Some Sunshine
Oct 18, 2013 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the northern edge of 'Solander Point' at the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is investigating the geologic contacts at the base of Solander...
Russian scientists set sights on space
Oct 18, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Russian scientists plan to once again attempt to launch an exploratory mission on the Martian satellite Phobos - the date for the launch of the new probe entitl...
Curiosity confirms origins of Martian meteorites
Oct 18, 2013 (SPX)
Earth's most eminent emissary to Mars has just proven that those rare Martian visitors that sometimes drop in on Earth - a.k.a. Martian meteorites - really are ...
Mission To Mars: A Critical Step In Space Globalization
Oct 17, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
India is getting ready to become the fifth country to send a spaceship to Mars. The USA, Russia, the EU, China and Japan are working on their own programs of st...
Russia to Make Second Attempt at Mars Moon Mission
Oct 17, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will take a second crack at bringing back dust samples from Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, after an attempt in 2011 ended in the spacecraft crashing b...
Russia to make another attempt to bring back Mars moon material
Oct 16, 2013 (UPI)
Russia will mount a second attempt to bring back dust samples from Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, after a failed 2011 try, a leading scientist says. Followin...
Curiosity rover finds proof of Mars origin of meteorites
Oct 16, 2013 (UPI)
NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has found evidence confirming some meteors found on Earth did in fact come from the Red Planet, scientists report. A key new meas...
Martian scars Run Deep
Oct 16, 2013 (ESA)
Ripped apart by tectonic forces, Hebes Chasma and its neighbouring network of canyons bear the scars of the Red Planet's early history. ESA's Mars Express has f...
US shutdown not to hit Indian Mars mission
Oct 14, 2013 (IANS)
The partial shutdown of the US government would not affect the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) scheduled for launch Oct 28, the Indian space agency said Satur...
ESA's test rover begins exploring Atacama Desert
Oct 14, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's test rover has been fitted with scientific instruments and made its first tracks in the sands of Chile's Atacama Desert. Meanwhile, team members have expl...
Martian settlement site to be printed on a printer
Oct 11, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
The first human settlers on Mars will use a 3D printer to print dwellings, greenhouses and even cutlery, in short, all they will need to live on the Red Planet....
NAU researcher's closer look at Mars reveals new type of impact crater
Oct 10, 2013 (SPX)
Lessons from underground nuclear tests and explosive volcanoes may hold the answer to how a category of unusual impact craters formed on Mars. The craters featu...
Mars Hand Lens Imager Sends Ultra High-Res Photo From Mars
Oct 10, 2013 (SPX)
An instrument aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back to scientists on Earth an ultra high-resolution image of a penny the rover carried to Mars. The coin w...
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