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Smithsonian May 2005 Carl Zimmer |
Life on Mars? It's hard enough to identify fossilized microbes on Earth. How would we ever recognize them on Mars?  |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
NASA Considering Mars Drone For 2020 Rover The next NASA Mars rover may include a helper drone.  |
Scientific American November 2007 Robert Zubrin |
Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake.  |
Car and Driver December 2006 Aaron Robinson |
Mars Rover. Rover and Out. After 300 million miles, NASA coaxes a few more feet from its $820 million beaters.  |
Smithsonian July 2007 Eric Jaffe |
Life Beyond Earth An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we're not alone?  |
Chemistry World December 17, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Blow to Hopes for Life on Mars Organic molecules found on rocks from Mars may not be the remnants of ancient Martian microbes after all.  |
Geotimes May 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker |
Robotic Field Geologists Take to Mars Next month, the first of two twin robotic geologists will head to the Red Planet, armed with a suite of tools for conducting geology on the harsh Martian surface.  |
Popular Mechanics January 5, 2010 Jeremy Jacquot |
The Top 4 Sites to Land on Mars and Their Biggest Mysteries Scientists at the Pasadena based NASA research center will decide within the next two years where to send the Mars Science Laboratory rover after it launches in the fall of 2011.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Erico Guizzo |
Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science  |
Geotimes October 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Traveling on Mars Over the past nine months, Mars' twin rovers have delivered amazing photographs and data to Earth, and now the first published science findings have appeared.  |
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Europe Horns In On Mars By 2016, the U.S. may unite with the European Space Agency for future Mars trips - a move that would mark a significant shift for NASA.  |
Popular Mechanics March 18, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Mars Researchers Take an Arctic Road Trip This trip is meant to be a dry run for an even more extreme environment -- the surface of Mars.  |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds.  |
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
More on Mars The last few months have held many new discoveries on Mars, including new images of the planet's landslides, caves and polar geysers from the Mars rover, which are giving scientists a closer look at the red planet than ever before.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 Barry E. DiGregorio |
There Will Be Cooking on Mars NASA's upcoming Phoenix lander mission may resolve lingering questions about organic molecules and liquid water on Mars.  |
Popular Mechanics August 2007 Erik Sofge |
NASA's New Rover to Looks for More Water on Mars The robot invasion of Mars will continue when the unmanned Phoenix Mars Lander touches down in the planet's northern polar region next year. I  |
Chemistry World December 7, 2012 James Urquhart |
Curiosity detect hints of complex organics Nasa's Curiosity rover has detected a range of chemical species including chlorinated hydrocarbons on the surface of Mars -- indicators that point to the presence of complex organic molecules.  |
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Mars geologist in action After a successful landing close to midnight EST last Saturday, the Mars exploration rover Spirit has been sending back information to its human tenders, in Pasadena, Calif.  |
Popular Mechanics July 2009 Morgan Lord |
NASA Builds World's Largest Space Parachute for Martian Landing When the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover lands on Mars in 2012, it will face a unique obstacle  |
Geotimes March 2004 |
NASA says Mars once drenched in water Scientists from NASA's Mars explorer projects announced today that they had found definitive evidence for "a lot of water" at some point in the planet's history.  |
Popular Mechanics August 5, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
NASA, Scientists Not Ready to Give Up on Martian Life Despite today's findings of toxic perchlorate in Martian soil, NASA is not ready to write off life on Mars. Leading space scientists point to earthbound extremeophiles that process the substance.  |
Geotimes September 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Opportunity Reaches Martian Crater Cameras aboard NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured the vast expanse of Victoria crater.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Saswato R. Das |
Terraforming Mars The renewed focus on Mars has rejuvenated the idea of terraforming Mars, which once belonged to the realm of science fiction, but is becoming increasingly possible today.  |
Chemistry World November 9, 2012 Laura Howes |
No methane on Mars, says Curiosity The idea that there was life on Mars has been dealt a blow after analysis of the planet's atmosphere found little to no methane.  |
Popular Mechanics May 27, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Phoenix Lander Doesn't Crash, Snaps Pix of Mars (With Gallery!) NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down on Sunday night in an unexplored region near the Martian north pole.  |
Chemistry World August 1, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Whirling Dust Devils Bust Martian Methane Snow storms of hydrogen peroxide might sound like an easy way to go platinum blonde, but their existence on Mars could help solve the conundrum about levels of methane gas in the martian atmosphere.  |
Geotimes February 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Mars update: a pixel at a time The two rovers on Mars are on the move. Spirit, after 10-day lapse in memory, now functions again after efforts by Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) scientists. Its twin explorer, Opportunity, has been traveling in its own crater, halfway around the planet.  |
Geotimes December 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Evidence for Water on Mars Flows Scientists have further confirmed the presence of water on Mars, almost a year after the Mars Exploration Rovers landed on the fourth rocky planet from the sun. And exploration continues to see further signs of water on Mars, from the ground to the sky.  |
Popular Mechanics October 15, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
As Phoenix Mission Ends, Project Leaders Chart Mars Future The Phoenix is now racing against time to complete more of its groundbreaking research before the harsh martian winter brings its death, said the project's science leader, Peter Smith of the University of Arizona.  |
Popular Mechanics May 27, 2008 Andrew Kessler |
After 'Hole-in-One' Landing, Phoenix Mission Control Digs Ahead Though mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab may have temporarily been at the helm of the Phoenix Mars Lander, it's the science team here at the University of Arizona that will steer the rest of the landmark mission.  |
Wired December 20, 2007 Erin Biba |
Set to Roll in 2009: The All-New Bigger, Badder-Ass Mars Rover The Mars Science Laboratory is nuclear powered and packed with gadgets never before seen on the Red Planet.  |
Popular Mechanics October 12, 2009 Erik Sofge |
8 Experts Weigh in on the Future of Human Spaceflight It's now up to NASA to consider the findings, and offer specific recommendations to the Obama administration.  |
Fast Company David Lumb |
NASA Chief Says Mars One Does Not Stand A Chance Without NASA Charles Bolden said that a manned mission to Mars is still a priority for NASA, with the next unmanned robotic rover mission planned to launch in 2020.  |
Popular Mechanics December 3, 2008 Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Why I Hope There's No Life on Mars If Mars is lifeless, that will make exploring -- and later settling -- the planet much easier.  |
Popular Mechanics December 2005 Aldrin & Noland |
Roadmap To Mars So far, NASA's plan to reach the red planet has been short on detail. Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin unveils his own step-by-step proposal for mankind's next giant leap.  |
PC Magazine April 20, 2005 Sebastian Rupley |
Searching for Signs of Life In a test run in Chile's Atacama Desert, a rover built by a research team has become the first robot to identify life.  |
Wired December 2004 Andrew Chaikin |
Man vs. Machine Today, decades after the final Apollo mission, we still haven't sent a human back to the moon - or beyond it.  |
Adventure February 2006 Michael Benoist |
Living It: Our Man on Mars NASA's planetary scientist Steve Squyres talks about a new book, a big movie, and what it's like to road trip the Red Planet.  |
Chemistry World August 2007 Richard Corfield |
Makeshift to Mars The red planet has claimed many a plucky spacecraft. How NASA's latest attempt hopes to overcome the odds with a different approach.  |
Wired July 2001 Tom McNichol |
The New Red Menace Robert Zubrin has a grand plan to turn the fourth planet into humanity's new frontier - within the next 10 years! Welcome to hell on, um, Mars...  |
Wired October 2009 Michael Reilly |
Could a Gravity Trick Speed Us to Mars? A trip to Mars takes 6 months, but NASA engineer Robert Adams may be able to cut that time in half with an all-but-forgotten secret of orbital mechanics.  |
Fast Company David Lumb |
NASA Wants Your Ideas For A Mars Colony The challenge asks for written submissions detailing what astronaut-explorers will need to colonize a new planet -- and the space agency is offering a total of $15,000 in prize money, to be split between three winners.  |
Chemistry World July 3, 2015 |
Getting the measure of Mars Sophisticated analytical chemistry is studying the history -- and habitability -- of our neighboring planet, as Andy Extance discovers.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Barry E. DiGregorio |
No Asteroid Impact on Mars After All The expected asteroid impact would have let scientists study crater formation and underlying Martian geology.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Suhas Sreedhar |
NASA's Phoenix Mission to Mars Launches Its search for life starts in May.  |
Geotimes May 2005 Laura Stafford |
Roving for Martian Designs Fifth-grade students from Texas take first place at the Third Annual Mars Rover Competition. Their rover was designed to furnish Mars with plants for oxygen and food for future human settlement.  |
Geotimes June 2004 Harrison H. Schmitt |
Space Exploration and Development: Why Humans? George Bush's new initiative places the president squarely in support of moving civilization into the solar system and "into the cosmos."  |
Science News January 22, 2005 |
A Year on Mars Catch up with the amazing, ongoing adventures of the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, still ticking on the surface of Mars.  |
Geotimes July 2004 Sara Pratt |
Core Compositions Scientists are working to explain the differences in composition between Earth and Mars.  |
Popular Mechanics June 20, 2008 Matt Sullivan |
As Phoenix Lander Finds Ice on Mars, Could a Real E.T. Be Next? In a breakthrough that likely provides scientists with their best opportunity ever to investigate extraterrestrial life, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has apparently spotted liquid ice on Mars.  |