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When Television Invade Mars
Miami - March 28, 2001 - If you like TV, you'll love the Mars Channel. Take your seats for the network premiere of interplanetary telly.
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NASA And NIMA Continue Joint Review Of Mars Polar Lander Search Analysis
Washington - March 26, 2001 - NASA and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) today said researchers from the two agencies will continue a joint review of the initial results of NIMA's search for the missing Mars Polar Lander. This analysis is extremely challenging, and has thus far produced no definitive conclusions.
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Researchers Pinpoint Region Responsible for Mars Heyday
St. Louis - March 15, 2001 - Planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and various collaborators have concluded that the Tharsis rise in Mars' Western Hemisphere is key to many of the Red Planet's mysteries, including its large-scale shape and gravity field, and its early climate and water distribution.
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Volcanoes May Have Melted Ice, Producing Water Necessary for Life on Red Planet
Houston - March 12, 2001 - Two of the oldest volcanoes on Mars, which have been active for 3.5 billion years, are providing clues to the possibility of life on the planet, according to preliminary analysis by University at Buffalo geologists of new data from the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) and the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), currently orbiting the planet.
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Greening The Red Planet
Huntsville - January 26, 2001 - Although Mars may once have been warm and wet, the Red Planet today is a frozen wasteland. Most scientists agree, it's highly unlikely that any living creature --even a microbe-- could survive for long on the surface of Mars.
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Mars’ Magnetic Patchwork May Protect Atmosphere
Berkeley - Dec 18, 2000 - Though Mars lacks a global protective magnetic shield like that of the Earth, strong localized magnetic fields embedded in the crust appear to be a significant barrier to erosion of the atmosphere by the solar wind.
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Iowa Professor Claims Compelling Evidence For Magnetotactic Mars Bacteria
Ames - Dec 12, 2000 - An Iowa State University professor is part of a research team that has found compelling evidence that Mars once supported primitive life.
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Europe Set To Bring New Eyes And Hands To Mars Exploration
Paris - Nov 22, 2000 - Starting with Mars Express and Beagle 2 and ending with a possible Sample Return Mission, Europe will be making a major contribution to Mars exploration over the next two decades. Europe's plans complement the new programme recently announced by NASA in the wake of last year's mission losses.
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Mars In The Early 21st Century
Pasadena - Nov 6, 2000 - Then, in August 2005, the U.S. will launch the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which was first proposed for the 2003 opportunity but passed over then for the rovers. This new mission is a virtual certainty; its startup funds will come out of the current FY 2000 budget.
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Mars Millennium Project Kicks Off Its Second Year!
Washington - October 8, 2000 - In case you haven¿t heard, the Mars Millennium Project is continuing for a second year. There¿s still time to get your project on the microchip for launch on a future NASA mission. The second year project submission deadline is June 1, 2001.
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Postcards From Time Frozen
Pasadena - October 5, 2000 - At the beginning of its fourth year in orbit, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has snapped a picture-postcard view of three Martian valleys that is now available on the Internet and on NASA Television.
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Antarctica’s Salty Valleys Provide Clues To Martian Atmospheric Processes
San Diego - October 2, 2000 - Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the mysteriously high salt concentrations in exposed soils of Antarctica's Dry Valleys are due in large part to biological sulfur emissions in the oceans surrounding the continent.
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Martian Life Would Need A Dose Of Antioxidants
San Diego - August 1, 2000 - Intense ultraviolet radiation that pierces Mars' thin atmosphere produces an abundance of oxygen ions, a common free radical, at the Martian surface that destroys organic molecules - - the building blocks of life -- according to researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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Dig For Life On Mars
Cameron Park - July 27, 2000 - Find liquid water on Mars, and life may not be far behind. Many scientists believe that this water can only exist thousands of metres beneath the planet's surface. So a team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is developing a robotic mole that can drill deep into Mars and return samples to the surface through a tube that it constructs as it digs.