Mars
What Mount Sharp Would Look Like on Earth
Ahh -- there's nothing like a beautiful sunny day in Gale crater! The rusty sand crunching beneath your wheels, a…
Curiosity Discovers Environment Where Life Could have Thrived on Ancient Mars
After analyzing the first powder ever drilled from the interior of a Martian rock, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered some of…
A Day in the Life of a Living Mars
Back in January we posted some intriguing images showing concepts of what a terraformed “living Mars” might look like from…
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Solar Storm Blasting to Mars Shuts Down Curiosity – 1st Rocky Sample Results on tap
Due to a fast approaching solar storm, NASA has temporarily shut down surface operations of the Curiosity Mars Science Lab…
Violent Martian Waters Carved Secret Trench
Massive floodwaters on Mars gouged a channel more than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) long, making a trench that was hidden…
Curiosity’s Landing Leftovers
During its "seven minutes of terror" landing on August 6, 2012, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory dropped quite a few things…
Tito Wants to Send Married Couple on Mars Flyby Mission
Millionaire and space tourist Dennis Tito announced his plans for funding a commercial mission to Mars, and the mission will…
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Curiosity Mars Rover Eats 1st Sample of Gray Rocky Powder
NASA’s Curiosity rover has eaten the 1st ever samples of gray rocky powder cored from the interior of a Martian…
Is a Comet on a Collision Course with Mars?
There is an outside chance that a newly discovered comet might be on a collision course with Mars. Astronomers are…
Hieroglyphic-like Features Point to Past Subsurface Water on Mars
Although these strange features on Mars look a bit like hieroglyphics or geoglyphs such as the mysterious Nazca lines on…