Mars
10 Years & Top 10 Discoveries from Marvelous Mars Express
This week marks the 10th anniversary since the launch of the European Space Agencies’ (ESA) Mars Express orbiter from the…
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Human Voyages to Mars Pose Higher Cancer Risks
New measurements of the energetic space radiation environment present in interplanetary space taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover confirm what has…
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Opportunity Discovers Clays Favorable to Martian Biology and Sets Sail for Motherlode of New Clues
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover discovered clay minerals at Cape York ridge along the rim of Endeavour crater - seen in…
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Curiosity Drills 2nd Hole into Ancient Mars Rocks Searching for the Ingredients of Life
NASA’s Curiosity rover has just successfully bored inside ancient rocks on Mars for only the 2nd time since her nail…
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Drill, Baby, Drill! – How Does Curiosity ‘Do It’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVwuOByJ5zw&list=UUryGec9PdUCLjpJW2mgCuLw&index=4 Video Caption: This JPL video shows the complicated choreography to get drill samples to Curiosity's instruments as she prepares…
Opportunity Mars Rover Blazes Past 40 Year Old Space Driving Record
Now more than 9 years and counting into her planned mere 90 day mission to Mars, NASA’s legendary Opportunity rover…
Mars Gets Bombarded by 200 Small Asteroids and Comets Every Year
One of the benefits of having a spacecraft in orbit around another planet for several years is the ability to…
How to Plant a Garden on Mars — With a Robot
Editor's note: This guest post is written by Louisa Preston, an Astrobiologist and Planetary Geologist. She is a TED Fellow,…
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Curiosity Reaches Out with Martian Handshake and Contemplates New Drilling at Habitable Site
NASA’s Curiosity rover reaches out in ‘handshake’ like gesture to welcome the end of solar conjunction and resumption of contact…
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Send Your Name and a Haiku Poem to Mars on a Solar Winged MAVEN
Do you want to go to Mars? Well here’s your chance to get connected for a double barreled dose of…