Houston TX (SPX) Mar 09, 2011 - Rocks on Mars dug from far underground by crater-blasting impacts are providing glimpses of one possible way Mars' atmosphere has become much less dense than it used to be. At several places w
Washington (AFP) March 7, 2011 - NASA should focus its efforts on a solar-powered rover mission to Mars rather than human spaceflight in the coming decade, but only if costs can be slashed, a science panel said Monday.
Paris (UPI) Mar 4, 2011 - European scientists say an image of an odd, elongated crater on Mars suggests it was carved out by a train of objects hitting the surface at a shallow angle.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 03, 2011 - Opportunity is completing the exploration of Santa Maria crater before resuming the trek towards Endeavour crater. One objective is to position the rover further counter-clockwise around the s
Moscow (XNA) Feb 28, 2011 - Russia will launch probes to several planets and their satellites, Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said Thursday. The probes are expected to study the moon and the Martian satellite
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2011 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, will carry a next generation, onboard chemical element reader to measure the chemical ingredients in Martian rocks and soil. The instrument is one
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2011 - Opportunity emerged from the solar conjunction in good order. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Mars are disrupted because the Sun is directly in between the two
Korolev, Russia (AFP) Feb 18, 2011 - Astronauts on a simulated flight to Mars made a second walk on a mock-up of the Red Planet's surface in Russia Friday, collecting soil samples for analysis.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 15, 2011 - Opportunity continues to be in the period of solar conjunction. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Mars are disrupted because the Sun is directly in between the tw
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2011 - NASA scientists and their colleagues are now proposing corporate financing for a human mission to Mars. This raises the prospect that a spaceship named the Microsoft Explorer or the Google Search En
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 14, 2011 - Three crewmembers of the virtual flight to Mars have 'landed' on their destination planet and two of them today took their first steps on the simulated martian terrain. The highlight of the Mars500
Moscow (AFP) Feb 14, 2011 - A group of volunteers will step out for a space walk on Mars Monday, as an unprecedented one-and-a-half year experiment to study the effects of a mission to the Red Planet reaches its cliamx.
Korolev, Russia (AFP) Feb 14, 2011 - Two volunteers cut off from the rest world for eight months stepped out on a mock-up of Mars on Monday, reaching the dramatic half-way point of their experimental voyage to the Red Planet.
Moscow (AFP) Feb 14, 2011 - Two volunteers from Italy and Russia on Monday stepped out for their first virtual space walk on Mars, which came as part of an experiment to study the effects of a mission to the Red Planet.
Moscow (UPI) Feb 12, 2011 - A crew of astronauts successfully simulated a landing on Mars inside a large hangar in Moscow, officials said.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 11, 2011 - 'Half-time' for Mars 500; on 12 February 2011, after a 250-day simulated flight to Mars, three crewmembers will land on the Red Planet. They will climb out of their isolation pod two days later at t
