MARS

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Mars rocks indicate relatively recent quakes, volcanism, on Red Planet
Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)
Images of a martian landscape offer evidence that the Red Planet's surface not only can shake like the surface of Earth, but has done so relatively recently. If...
Rock Studies Continue for Opportunity
Feb 21, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy p...
Honeycombs and Hexacopters Help Tell Story of Mars
Feb 17, 2012 (SPX)
In a rough-and-tumble wonderland of plunging canyons and towering buttes, some of the still-raw bluffs are lined with soaring, six-sided stone columns so orderl...
ISS may become Martian flight simulator
Feb 17, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Roscosmos space agency has suggested expanding the length of future expeditions to the International Space Station from the current six months to a yea...
Martian Carbon Dioxide Clouds Tied To Atmospheric Gravity Waves
Feb 15, 2012 (SPX)
On 4 March 1997 the Mars Pathfinder lander fell through the thin Martian atmosphere. During its descent, instrumentation aboard the lander recorded the changing...
No future for Mars?
Feb 14, 2012 (ESA)
The second half of February brings news on the proposed sum of NASA's budget for 2013 fiscal year. Even though President Obama hasn't made the request yet, it i...
NASA kills Mars deal with Europe
Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)
The United States will scale back Mars exploration under a proposed budget by President Barack Obama released Monday that has some scientists fuming over the ri...
Opportunity Energy Levels Decreasing As Winter Takes Hold
Feb 13, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy p...
Obama budget slashes Mars exploration
Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)
The budget proposed Monday by US President Barack Obama for fiscal year 2013 would slash $226 million from the US space agency's Mars exploration program, likel...
Venezuela Mars mission after 2030
Feb 13, 2012 (IANS)
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez said Friday his country would be able to send a mission to Mars after 2030. "Venezuela has stepped onto the road to space," Chavez...
Scientists say Obama Mars cuts to hit research
Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)
The United States will scale back Mars exploration under a proposed budget by President Barack Obama released Monday that has some scientists fuming over the ri...
New Views Show Old NASA Mars Landers
Feb 13, 2012 (JPL)
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded a scene on Jan. 29, 2012, that includes the first ...
Mars Science Lab Computer Issue Resolved
Feb 10, 2012 (JPL)
Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it. Th...
Spectra Systems Products on Their Way to Mars
Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)
Spectra Systems, a technology company that provides banknote security features to many of the world's central banks, has one of its products on the way to Mars ...
NASA budget will axe Mars deal with Europe: scientists
Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama's budget proposal to be submitted next week for 2013 will cut NASA's budget by 20 percent and eliminate a major partnership with Europ...
Mars radar finds possible ocean sediments
Feb 08, 2012 (ESA)
The MARSIS radar instrument on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter has discovered a subsurface blanket of low density material around the north polar cap, supporti...
Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean
Feb 08, 2012 (ESA)
ESA's Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor wi...
Heavy Ions Killed Mars Probe
Feb 07, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was lost because space radiation disrupted its computer system, a commission investigating the incident said on Friday. The inve...
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