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Russia to test Mars lander for 2011 flight
Moscow (UPI) Sep 11, 2010 - Russian scientists say they're preparing to test an unmanned lander for a 2011 mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.
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How Microbes Could Help Colonize Mars
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 10, 2010 - Tiny rock-eating microbes could mine precious extraterrestrial resources from Mars and pave the way for the first human colonists. Just don't expect them to transform the red planet's surface into a new Earth on a short deadline, researchers say.
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NASA Data Shed New Light About Water And Volcanoes On Mars
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 10, 2010 - Data from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest liquid water has interacted with the Martian surface throughout the planet's history and into modern times. The research also provides new evidence that volcanic activity has persisted on the Red Planet into geologically recent times, several million years ago.
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Opportunity Rover Reaches Halfway Point Of Long Trek
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 09, 2010 - When NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity left Victoria Crater two years ago this month, the rover science team chose Endeavour Crater as the rover's next long-term destination.
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Mars rover halfway to next destination
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Sep 9, 2010 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the halfway point in its journey to its next science destination on the planet, U.S. scientists say.
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Opportunity Studies Interesting Rocks
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2010 - Opportunity finished her campaign to examine an exposed outcrop of rock that was of interest to the science team.
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Missing Piece Inspires New Look At Mars Puzzle
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 06, 2010 - Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.
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Next Mars Rover Stretches Robotic Arm
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 06, 2010 - Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover that will be on Mars two years from now, has been flexing the robotic arm that spacecraft workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory attached to the rover body in August 2010.
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Mars life may have been missed years ago
Washington (UPI) Sep 3, 2010 - New analysis of data sent from Mars 34 years ago showing there was no organic material on the planet suggests maybe there was after all, U.S. scientists say.
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Orcus Patera – Mars’s Mysterious Elongated Crater
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 30, 2010 - Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation remains a mystery. Often overlooked, this well-defined depression extends approximately 380 by 140 kilometres in a north-northeast to south-southwest direction.
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Tracing The Big Picture Of Mars’ Atmosphere
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 30, 2010 - One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily maps of global, pole-to-pole, vertical distributions of the temperature, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere.
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High-res camera snaps water ice on Mars
Tucson (UPI) Aug 27, 2010 - A NASA spacecraft with a high-resolution camera has photographed a young Mars crater and found frozen water in it, scientists say.
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Opportunity Stops To Check Out Rocks
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2010 - Opportunity has paused in her trek toward Endeavour crater to examine an exposed outcrop of rock that is of interest to the science team.
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The Mutating Mars Hoax
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 26, 2010 - It spreads, it mutates, it refuses to die. For the seventh year in a row, the Mars Hoax is infecting email boxes around the world. Passed from one reader to another, the message states that on August 27th Mars will approach Earth and swell to the size of a full Moon. NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN, the email declares--always in caps.
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NASA’s Marks 35th Anniversary Of Mars Viking Mission
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2010 - Mars. Roman god of war. The Red Planet. From the perennial Mars hoax to Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, no other body in our solar system has so captured the human imagination. Throughout history mankind has gazed into the night sky wondering what civilizations awaited those who landed on the Red Planet's surface. The novels of Burroughs and others tout the planet's allure and films have warned humanity of its dangers.
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Mud Volcanoes On Mars
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2010 - If life does - or did - exist on Mars, signs of such life might well be found in a region in the northern plains called Acidalia Planitia, according to a new study.