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ESA To Operate A Greenhouse In Space On ISSParis, France (ESA) Nov 11, 2010 It's small, but it's a greenhouse for space voyagers - and for you. Paolo Nespoli will take a special greenhouse with him to the International Space Station and he's inviting young science enthusiasts to conduct an experiment with him. Growing plants in space will be crucial for the astronauts of the future. When flying to Mars or even further, it will be necessary to produce fresh food onboard and become partially self-sufficient. Setting up greenhouses on the Moon, Mars or other planetary bodies ... read more |
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  Bringing a Bit of Mars Back Home If there is evidence of life on Mars, it will be found in the planet's rocks. And as most scientists who study Mars will tell you, the best way to learn about martian rocks is to bring a few back to ... more | .. |
 The Secrets Of Ancient Martian and Terrestrial Atmospheres Chemists at UC San Diego have uncovered a new chemical reaction on tiny particulates in the atmosphere that could allow scientists to gain a glimpse from ancient rocks of what the atmospheres of the ... more | .. |
 Function Analysis Drives The Development Of A Concept Mars Rover Humans have walked on the Moon, and inevitably, according to NASA, humans will tread the Red Planet as well, possibly by 2037. An ergonomist and an industrial designer pondered the challenges of the ... more | .. |
  Using Planet Colors To Search For Alien Earths Earth is invitingly blue. Mars is angry red. Venus is brilliant white. Astronomers have learned that a planet's "true colors" can reveal important details. For example, Mars is red because its soil ... more |
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 Mars Rovers Mission Using Cloud Computing The project team that built and operates the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity has become the first NASA space mission to use cloud computing for daily mission operations. Cloud computing is ... more | .. |
  China Goes To Mars As China's second Moon probe continues its mission, more information is being disclosed about China's ambitions for worlds beyond. China has made no secret of its plans to explore Mars, but we are g ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Keeps On Driving To Endeavour Crater Over the past week, Opportunity completed a short bump before the weekend and two long drives after the weekend. The short bump was a 3-meter (10-foot) move on Sol 2397 (Oct. 21, 2010), to position ... more | .. |
 Mars Volcanic Deposit Tells Of Warm And Wet Environment Roughly 3.5 billion years ago, the first epoch on Mars ended. The climate on the red planet then shifted dramatically from a relatively warm, wet period to one that was arid and cold. Yet there was ... more |
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Ancient Mars Was Wet, Cozy And Life Friendly Light-colored mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone more than three billion years ago may preserve evidence of one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars. Observatio ... more | .. |
 Study Links Fresh Mars Gullies To Carbon Dioxide A growing bounty of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the timing of new activity in one type of the enigmatic gullies on Mars implicates carbon-dioxide frost, rather than w ... more | .. |
 NASA Trapped Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis. ... more | .. |
2013 Earliest Launch Date For China Mars Mission China has drawn up a technical plan for an independent Mars orbiter exploration project, according to China's space technology expert. The plan was based on research conducted by the China Aca ... more |
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 A One-Way Trip To Mars Would Be Affordable For the chance to watch the sun rise over Olympus Mons, or maybe take a stroll across the vast plains of the Vastitas Borealis, would you sign on for a one-way flight to Mars? It's a question ... more | .. |
 Testing The Exomars Rover In Mars-Like Conditions A couple of clicks of the mouse are enough to send the ExoMars rover with its six flexible metal wheels moving across the sand tank towards the first obstacle. Bernhard Rebele, Maximilian Apfelbeck ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Builds A New Mars Rover A newly installed webcam is giving the public an opportunity to watch technicians assemble and test the next NASA Mars rover, one of the most technologically challenging interplanetary missions ever ... more | .. |
 The Continuing Controversy Of The Mars Meteorite The most illustrious meteorite in history continues to inspire heated debate. Does it carry microbial fossils from Mars or are its strange features just the product of some unique geochemistry? Afte ... more |
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 Opportunity's Eastward View After Sol 2382 Drive This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a 90-degree view centered toward the east following a 93.3-meter (306-foot) drive east-northeastwa ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Past The 15-Mile Mark On Mars Opportunity crossed the 24-kilometer (15-mile) odometry mark on her way to Endeavour crater. The rover ended last week with the data backlog which limited activities over the weekend. On Sol 2 ... more | .. |
 Revealing More About The Atmosphere Of Mars Instruments designed by a UT Dallas professor to measure atmospheric components on the surface of Mars have uncovered important clues about the planet's atmosphere and climate history. The fin ... more | .. |
 Emerging Underground Aquifers Formed Martian Lakes Researchers at the Planetary Science Institute have found a new explanation for how seas and lakes may have once developed on Mars. J. Alexis Palmero Rodriguez, research scientist at PSI, has ... more |
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 Long-Lived Mars Odyssey Gets New Project Manager The new project manager for the longest-working spacecraft currently active at Mars, NASA's Mars Odyssey, has a long track record himself. He is Gaylon McSmith, a former pilot of U.S. Air Forc ... more | .. |
 Rover Nears 15 Miles Of Driving On Mars Opportunity drove only once this past week, nearing the 24-kilometer (15-mile) odometry mark. On Sol 2382 (Oct. 6, 2010), the rover covered over 94 meters (308 feet) on her trek to Endeavour c ... more | .. |
 NASA chief to visit China NASA chief Charles Bolden will make an official visit to China October 16-21, a spokesman for the US space agency said Tuesday. The visit was first announced in November 2009 during a visit to C ... more | .. |
 Melas Chasma On Mars: As Low As One Can Go There are few places on Mars lower than this. The floor of Melas Chasma sinks nine kilometres below the surrounding plains. New images from the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsche Zentrum fur Luft- un ... more |
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