Mars
Best Class Project Ever: 7th Graders Find a Cave on Mars
[/caption] Tip number one on "How to impress your classmates:" Find a mysterious cave on Mars. A group of 16…
Video Tour of the Mars500 Habitat
Mars500 participant Diego Urbina (follow him on Twitter at @diegou) provides a tour inside the Mars500 facilities - see how…
Vast Oceans Likely Covered One Third of Mars
[/caption] Like rising waters from a flood, the evidence for past water on Mars --- and large amounts of it…
Get Your Mars (and HiRISE) Fix With Over 600 New Images
[/caption] Mmmm, Mars. And lots of it, too! The team from one of our all-time favorite scientific instruments, the HiRISE…
Ice Caves Possible on Mars
[/caption] New results published in the journal Icarus suggest that caves on Mars may provide future astronauts with more than…
New Mars Maps Show Evidence of Ancient Lakes
[/caption] Was the expansive Hellas Basin on Mars at one time a giant lake? A new geologic mapping project shows…
Mars Gets Autotuned!
You've probably seen "A Glorious Dawn" -- the autotune wonder that allowed Carl Sagan to sing to us. The Symphony…
Crew Embarks on 520-Day Mock Mission to Mars
[/caption] Six men from Europe, Russia and China embarked on a 520-day mock mission to Mars, heading out to a…
Spirit Rover Still Providing New Evidence for Past Water on Mars
[/caption] Even though the Mars Rover Spirit is asleep, a new look at old data from one of her instruments…
Mars Webcam Provides Astronaut-like View of Red Planet
What would it be like to approach Mars in a spacecraft? In one of the coolest movies ever, we now…