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Red wine compound could help protect astronauts on trip to Mars
Jul 18, 2019 (UPI)
During recent experiments, scientists found the supplement protected lab rats from muscle atrophy while living under conditions approximating Mars' microgravity...
Red wine's resveratrol could help Mars explorers stay strong
Jul 18, 2019 (SPX)
Published in Frontiers in Physiology, their study shows that resveratrol substantially preserves muscle mass and strength in rats exposed to the wasting effects...
A material way to make Mars habitable
Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)
Sagan's work inspired other researchers and futurists to take seriously the idea of terraforming. The key question was: are there enough greenhouse gases and wa...
Aerogel could be a key building material for Mars
Jul 17, 2019 (JPL)
Of course, NASA has plans to eventually put humans on Mars, using lessons it will learn from its Artemis lunar explorations. And those humans will need to eat. ...
Sustaining Life on Long-Term Crewed Missions Will Require Planetary Resources
Jul 09, 2019 (SPX)
In order to develop the best ways to find and use resources on the Moon, NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland created an Excavation Laboratory to explore eff...
Dust storms swirl at the north pole of Mars
Jul 08, 2019 (ESA)
Local and regional storms lasting for a few days or weeks and confined to a small area are common place on Mars, but at their most severe can engulf the entire ...
Methane vanishing on Mars
Jul 05, 2019 (SPX)
For approx. 15 years ago, one could for the first time read about methane in Mars's atmosphere. This aroused great interest, also outside the scientific circles...
InSight Uncovers the 'Mole' on Mars
Jul 05, 2019 (JPL)
"We've completed the first step in our plan to save the mole," said Troy Hudson of a scientist and engineer with the InSight mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion La...
Mars 2020 Rover Gets a Super Instrument
Jul 03, 2019 (JPL)
SuperCam is a next-generation version of the ChemCam instrument operating on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. It has been developed jointly in the U.S., France and ...
Inflatable Decelerator Will Hitch a Ride on the JPSS-2 Satellite
Jul 02, 2019 (SPX)
The Apollo lunar landers fired retro rockets to land humans on the Moon. The space shuttle relied on drag from the atmosphere to act like a brake during re-entr...
Mars 2020 Rover's 7-Foot-Long Robotic Arm Installed
Jul 01, 2019 (JPL)
Measuring 7 feet (2.1 meters) long, the arm will allow the rover to work as a human geologist would: by holding and using science tools with its turret, which i...
Santorini volcano, a new terrestrial analogue of Mars
Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)
The Greek island of Santorini is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Mediterranean, but 3,600 years ago it suffered one of the largest volca...
A chaos found only on Mars
Jun 28, 2019 (ESA)
These images show the southern part of Aurorae Chaos in detail, highlighting various swathes of fractured rock, mismatched peaks, flat-topped mounds (mesas), sc...
Paragon Space Development Corp awarded NASA contract for ISRU technology
Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)
IHOP is a game changing technology that enables an enduring human presence on the moon and beyond. The IHOP system purifies naturally occurring deposits of wate...
Life on Mars Was Possible After Last Great Meteorite Impact
Jun 27, 2019 (SPX)
These findings, published online in Nature Geoscience, suggest that conditions under which life could have thrived may have occurred on Mars from around 4.2 to ...
A Martian methane belch melts away
Jun 25, 2019 (AFP)
NASA's Curiosity Rover last week detected the highest ever levels of the colorless, odorless gas over the course of its seven year mission on the Red Planet, ra...
Experiments with salt-tolerant bacteria in brine have implications for life on Mars
Jun 24, 2019 (SPX)
"Ours is the first demonstration of microbes surviving and growing after being dried and then re-wetted with humidity only," said Mark Schneegurt, PhD, Professo...
Curiosity detects unusually high methane levels
Jun 24, 2019 (JPL)
The finding came from the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) tunable laser spectrometer. It's exciting because microbial life is an important source of metha...
NASA's Curiosity rover finds new methane spike on Mars
Jun 24, 2019 (AFP)
But the methane could also be produced as a result of interactions between rocks and water. Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) tunable laser spectrometer...
A Rover for Phobos and Deimos
Jun 21, 2019 (SPX)
The scientists hope to gain new insights into the formation and evolution of the solar system. At the International Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, the German Aer...
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