MARS

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Bacterium from Canadian High Arctic and life on Mars
May 27, 2013 (SPX)
The temperature in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic is nearly as cold as that of the surface of Mars. So the recent discovery by a...
Opportunity Departing 'Cape York'
May 27, 2013 (JPL)
Opportunity has begun the departure from 'Cape York' and started the push to reach 'Solander Point' over 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) away. The rover drove five out...
Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target
May 24, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland." Plans call for d...
Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock
May 22, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely a...
Opportunity Rides Into History For Offworld Drive
May 21, 2013 (JPL)
Opportunity has set a new off-world driving record for a U.S. spacecraft having surpassed the record previously held by Apollo 17 in the Sol 3309 (May 15, 2013)...
NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target
May 21, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland." Plans call for d...
Mars Icebreaker Life Mission
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
Missions to Mars have only scratched its surface. To go deeper, scientists are proposing a spacecraft that can drill into the Red Planet to potentially find sig...
NASA Probe Counts Space Rock Impacts on Mars
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of co...
Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
May 17, 2013 (JPL)
While Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited Earth's moon for three days in December 1972, they drove their mission's Lunar Roving Vehi...
Living and Dying on Mars
May 16, 2013 (SPX)
The Website, Mars-One.com has posted an interesting Want Ad: "Mars 2023: Inhabitants Wanted - Mars One will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. We i...
NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on Mars
May 13, 2013 (JPL)
The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location i...
Opportunity Making Smallest Turn Yet, As Dust Storm Affects Rover
May 13, 2013 (JPL)
Opportunity is feverishly working to complete analysis of 'Esperance,' believed to be a phyllosilicate-rich target, before departing for her winter haven at 'So...
More than 78,000 people apply for one-way trip to Mars
May 11, 2013 (UPI)
More than 78,000 people have applied for a chance to go on a one-way trip to create a permanent community on the planet Mars, officials said. The Dutch company ...
And Now For The Weather On Mars
May 10, 2013 (SPX)
Snowstorms lashing down at the northern hemisphere of Mars during the icy cold winters may be predicted several weeks in advance, say researchers from the Tohok...
Austria Aims For Mars Via Morocco
May 10, 2013 (SPX)
Mars 2013 analog field simulation, held by the Austrian Space Forum in Morocco this February is over, and now the organizers have published the full report from...
Opportunity Rover Back in Action
May 10, 2013 (JPL)
Opportunity has safely emerged from solar conjunction. However, in the past week the flight team learned that the rover did experience a flash memory anomaly du...
Landing is key puzzle in Mars trip plans: experts
May 08, 2013 (AFP)
Landing astronauts safely on Mars is one of the biggest technological hurdles for any future manned mission to the Red Planet, even more complicated than last y...
Buzz Aldrin says US must colonize Mars
May 08, 2013 (AFP)
Buzz Aldrin, the American astronaut who was the second man to walk on the Moon, said Wednesday that the United States must lead the way toward building a perman...
India to have five rocket launches, including Mars mission, in 2013
May 08, 2013 (IANS)
ISRO is planning to have a total of five rocket launches in 2013 from its rocket launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, around 80 km from here. This will ...
New analysis suggests wind, not water, formed mound on Mars
May 08, 2013 (SPX)
A roughly 3.5-mile high Martian mound that scientists suspect preserves evidence of a massive lake might actually have formed as a result of the Red Planet's fa...
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