Mars
NASA Invests In Radical Game-Changing Concepts For Exploration
As part of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, NASA recently announced 13 radical proposals for funding and development
Antarctica Provides Plenty Of Mars Samples Right Now
Antarctica is a rich source of Martian meteorites, which are studied for clues to the formation and evolution of the…
ExoMars Takes First Hi-Res Image With The Lens Cap On
ExoMars returns its first image, proof that the camera system is functioning as intended.
Opportunity Discovers Dust Devil, Explores Steepest Slopes on Mars
A “beautiful dust devil” was just discovered today, April 1, on the Red Planet by NASA’s long lived Opportunity rover…
How Do We Terraform The Moon?
Given its proximity to Earth and our history of exploring it, colonizing and terraforming the Moon could be much easier…
ExoMars Mission Narrowly Avoids Exploding Booster
The final booster that sent the ExoMars spacecraft to Mars exploded not long after the two parted. Luckily, the probe…
Moonbase by 2022 For $10 Billion, Says NASA
According to a series of articles produced by NASA and industry specialists, a lunar base could be built in a…
Bold Euro-Russian Expedition Blasts Free of Earth En Route to Mars in Search of Life’s Indicators
The cooperative Euro-Russian ExoMars 2016 expedition is now en route to the Red Planet after successfully firing its upper stage…
Stunning Conjunction of Mars and Beta Scorpii This Week
Sneaky Mars creeps up on bright Graffias in Scorpius for a very close conjunction Wednesday morning. Even better, the star…
ExoMars Spacecraft Launches to Red Planet Searching for Signs of Life
The joint European/Russian ExoMars spacecraft successfully launched early this morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Proton-M rocket…