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Ridges on Mars suggest ancient flowing water
Jan 31, 2013 (SPX)
Networks of narrow ridges found in impact craters on Mars appear to be the fossilized remnants of underground cracks through which water once flowed, according ...
NASA looking for smoother route for Mars rover travels
Jan 29, 2013 (UPI)
Controllers of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity say they are considering a smoother path across a small sand dune to reach a favorable route to science destinations....
Opportunity At Work At Whitewater Lake
Jan 25, 2013 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater, performing an in-situ (contact) science investigation of veins in the light-to...
Changes on Mars Caused by Seasonal Thawing of CO2
Jan 25, 2013 (SPX)
Spring is a dynamic season on the dunes surrounding Mars' north pole. When frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice, deposited as a winter ice cap on Mars sublimates -...
Is there life on Mars?
Jan 25, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Scientists believe that a large crater, which has been discovered on Mars, might have been a lake several billion years ago. A space vehicle, which NASA sent to...
Mars Rover Curiosity Uses Arm Camera at Night
Jan 25, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has for the first time used the camera on its arm to take photos at night, illuminated by white lights and ultraviolet lights on the...
Thawing Dry Ice Drives Groovy Action On Mars
Jan 25, 2013 (JPL)
Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter see seasonal changes on far-northern Martian sand dunes caused by warming of a winter blanket of frozen car...
Reull Vallis: a river ran through it
Jan 23, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's Mars Express imaged the striking upper part of the Reull Vallis region of Mars with its high-resolution stereo camera last year. Reull Vallis, the river-l...
NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year
Jan 23, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, one of the twin rovers that bounced to airbag-cushioned safe landings on Mars nine years ago this week, is currently ...
Opportunity Investigating Light-toned Veins in Rock Outcrop
Jan 22, 2013 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater, now engaged in in-situ (contact) science investigation of veins in the light-t...
Possible Clues to Ancient Subsurface Biosphere on Mars
Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)
The subsurface environment on Mars may hold clues to the origin of life, scientists argue in a recently published research article led by Planetary Science Inst...
Martian Crater May Once Have Held Groundwater-Fed Lake
Jan 21, 2013 (JPL)
A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evol...
US scientists find evidence of ancient Martian lake
Jan 20, 2013 (AFP)
A US spacecraft orbiting Mars has provided evidence of an ancient crater lake fed by groundwater, adding further support to theories that the Red Planet may onc...
ChemCam follows the 'Yellowknife Road' to Martian wet area
Jan 17, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the French Space Agency have tracked a trail of minerals that point to the prior presence of water at the Cu...
Choosing the right people to go to Mars
Jan 17, 2013 (ESA)
When humans eventually travel to the Red Planet, the voyage will be long and difficult. The simulated Mars500 mission showed that every detail must be planned, ...
Mars image suggests ancient water flow
Jan 17, 2013 (UPI)
A European spacecraft has captured a striking image of a river-like structure on Mars believe formed when running water flowed in the distant martian past. A hi...
NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock
Jan 17, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engine...
Mars rover readies first rock drilling
Jan 15, 2013 (AFP)
The Mars rover Curiosity will soon begin to drill into the Red Planet for the first time, mission officials said Tuesday ahead of the highly anticipated endeavo...
Opportunity Heading Toward Light-Toned Veins
Jan 14, 2013 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater at the local region called "Matijevic Hill." The rover completed the in-situ (c...
Mars One announces requirements for Red Planet colonists
Jan 14, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Mars One, a Netherlands-based non-profit company that hopes to deliver the first humans to the Red Planet by 2023, has issued a list of basic requirements for t...
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