Miami (AFP) Aug 29, 2015 - Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii on Friday, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars.
Mauna Loa, Hawaii (UPI) Aug 29, 2015 - Six scientists have begun a yearlong isolation experiment from within a small dome to mimic life on Mars.
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 27, 2015 - With over 1,800 billionaires in the world, a sizeable investment from at least one of them could provide a major push to colonize the Red Planet. For nonprofit organization Mars One, the right wealt
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 25, 2015 - Opportunity is in 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater exploring for phyllosilicate clay minerals. The rover is operating in persistent RAM mode (not using Flash for data stor
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 25, 2015 - Mars has held a central place in human imagination and culture for millennia. Ancients marveled at its red color and the brightness that waxed and waned in cycles over the years. Early observations
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 20, 2015 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is driving toward the southwest after departing a region where for several weeks it investigated a geological contact zone and rocks that are unexpectedly high in silica
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 19, 2015 - Mars enthusiasts around the world can participate in NASA's journey to Mars by adding their names to a silicon microchip headed to the Red Planet aboard NASA's InSight Mars lander, scheduled to laun
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2015 - When the Mars 2020 rover arrives on the Red Planet, one of its primary mission goals will be to select and preserve samples that would eventually make it back to Earth for scientific study. Rather t
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 13, 2015 - Ten years after launch, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed the Red Planet's diversity and activity, returning more data about Mars every week than the weekly total from all six ot
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 10, 2015 - Mars turned cold and dry long ago, but researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered evidence of an ancient lake that likely represents some of the last potentially habitable sur
Podzamcze, Poland (SPX) Aug 10, 2015 - Poland will once again host the biggest Mars rover competition in Europe. This year, from Sept. 5 to 6, the second edition of the European Rover Challenge (ERC) is expected to get even more publicit
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 07, 2015 - On the three-year anniversary of the Mars landing of NASA's Curiosity rover, NASA is unveiling two new online tools that open the mysterious terrain of the Red Planet to a new generation of explorer
Honolulu HI (SPX) Aug 05, 2015 - The crew that will spend 365 days in isolation in the next Hawai?i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) mission has been selected. The six scientists will begin their yearlong stay in t
Buckingham UK (SPX) Aug 04, 2015 - The UK Space Agency has endorsed an experiment proposal submitted to the NASA ROSES-2015: The Mars Science Laboratory Participating Scientist Program by a group of scientists including two members o
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2015 - With its biggest orbit maneuver since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will prepare this week for the arrival of NASA's next Mars lander, InSight, next year. A planned 77-second
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 27, 2015 - Science-team members for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are soliciting help from the public to analyze exotic features near the south pole of Mars. By categorizing features visible in imag
