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Russia aims for first conquest of MarsMoscow (AFP) Nov 7, 2011 Russia on Wednesday launches a probe for Mars that aims to collect a chunk of a Martian moon and become Moscow's first successful planetary mission since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Phobos-Grunt probe is to blast off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Zenit-2SB rocket at 00:16 am Moscow time (2016 GMT Tuesday), Russia's space agency Roscosmos said in a statement. Russia hopes the mission will mark a triumphant return to interplanetary exploration, a field from which it has ... read more |
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 Return from virtual flight to Mars 520 days without sunlight, fresh air or direct contact with the outside world - the six test subjects on the Mars500 mission have had to forego plenty of things while 'travelling' to Mars and back t ... more | .. |
 Welcome back and thank you, Mars500 The record-breaking simulated mission to Mars has ended with smiling faces after 17 months. Mars500's six brave volunteers stepped out of their 'spacecraft' to be welcomed by the waiting scientists ... more | .. |
 Scientists reveal jealousies on 'mission to Mars' It was not always smooth sailing for the six young men who huddled in uncomfortably close quarters on a 520-day fake mission to Mars, a Russian scientist has revealed. ... more | .. |
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 Opportunity On the Lookout for Light-Toned Material The seasonal plan for Opportunity is to winter over on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater where northerly tilts are favorable for solar array energy production. As such, ... more | .. |
Volunteers emerge from 520-day 'Mars voyage' isolation Six volunteers from a multi-national crew on Friday stepped out of an isolation module in Moscow after almost one-and-a-half years locked away from the outside world to simulate the effects of a return voyage to Mars. ... more | .. |
 Mars Curiosity Rover Moved Space Launch Complex 41 For Nov 25 Liftoff The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover was moved from NASA Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Statio ... more | .. |
 Mars: How Watery a World? Does Mars have water? This question has been contentious for well over a century and a half, with extreme swings in scientific opinion - from a planet criss-crossed with canals to no water at all; f ... more |
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Moscow's Mars volunteers to 'land' after 520 days Six volunteers Friday will emerge blinking into the outside world after spending almost one-and-a-half-years in isolation at a Russian research centre to test the effects on humans of a flight to Mars. ... more | .. |
 NASA Study of Clays Suggests Watery Mars Underground A new NASA study suggests if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet's surface. A new interpretation of years of mineral-mapping data, from more ... more | .. |
 Mars Express observations temporarily suspended Anomalies in the operation of the solid-state mass memory system on board Mars Express have caused science observations to be temporarily halted. A technical work-around is being investigated that w ... more | .. |
 Mars500 crew prepare to open the hatch The 520 days of isolation for the Mars500 crew will end on 4 November, when the hatch of their 'spacecraft' is opened for the first time since June last year. Scientists eagerly await the final samp ... more |
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  Rosetta reveals the science and mystery of Asteroid Lutetia On 10 July 2010, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft flew past asteroid (21) Lutetia, one of the largest objects orbiting within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Rosetta's encounter revealed an ... more | .. |
Opportunity Continues to Drive North The seasonal plan is for Opportunity to winter over on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater where northern tilts are favorable for energy production. As such, the project ... more | .. |
Opportunity Past 21 Miles of Driving! Will Spend Winter at Cape York The project has made the decision that Opportunity will winter over on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater where northern tilts are favorable for energy production. On So ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover Carries Device for Underground Scouting An instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity can check for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along the rover's path. "If we conclude that there is something unusu ... more |
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Floods droughts and fires hydroclimate extremes accelerate worldwide
Earth's air war explaining delayed rise of plants and animals on land
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 Scientists develope new way to determine when water was present on Mars and Earth The discovery of the mineral jarosite in rocks analyzed by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, on the Martian surface had special meaning for a team of Syracuse University scientists who study the mineral ... more | .. |
 Mars Landing-Site Specialist Gale crater has been sitting just below the equator of Mars, minding its own business, for at least three and half billion years. But in August 2012, a capsule is going to come screaming out of the ... more | .. |
  ASU in space: 7 current missions, more in the wings Arizona State University is no stranger to space exploration missions. Whether to Mars or other solar system targets, its involvement with NASA planetary exploration began in the 1970s and at presen ... more | .. |
 Russian scientists want to join Europe's ExoMars mission Russian scientists want to join European Space Agency's ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) mission to study the Red Planet, a leading Russian space researcher said. "From the scientific point of vie ... more |
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 UK Space Agency announces seed funding for Mars exploration The UK Space Agency is making 1.6M pounds available in support of projects to further explore our neighbouring planet Mars and keep the UK at the forefront of ESA's Aurora Programme - a European lon ... more | .. |
 New Mystery on Mars's Forgotten Plains One of the supposedly best understood and least interesting landscapes on Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planet's history. Or not. In fact, about all that is certain is that decades ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Keeps Rolling With an Eye on Future Havens for Next Winter Opportunity is moving generally north across Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater with an eye ahead to the next winter. With her solar arrays dustier and atmospheric opacity higher than in ... more | .. |
 While the US Stalls, Europe Moves On to Mars The European Space Agency (ESA) seems to have gotten tired of waiting for NASA to commit to its share of the joint 2016/2018 Mars missions that were planned to lay the groundwork for an eventual del ... more |
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 Russia invited to join Mars missions Europe has formally invited Russia to participate in financially troubled unmanned space missions to Mars set for 2016 and 2018, officials said. ... more | .. |
 New Mystery On Mars' Forgotten Plains One of the supposedly best understood and least interesting landscapes on Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planet's history. Or not. In fact, about all that is certain is that decades ... more | .. |
 Wet and Mild: Caltech Researchers Take the Temperature of Mars' Past Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have directly determined the surface temperature of early Mars for the first time, providing evidence that's consistent with a warmer ... more | .. |
 Mars Express observes clusters of recent craters in Ares Vallis Newly released images taken by ESA's Mars Express show an unusual accumulation of young craters in the large outflow channel called Ares Vallis. Older craters have been reduced to ghostly outlines b ... more |
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 Video Documents Three-Year Trek on Mars by NASA Rover While NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was traveling from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, between September 2008 and August 2011, the rover team took an end-of-drive image on each Mart ... more | .. |
  Russian Space objectives Russia plans to carry out an unmanned lunar flight before 2050, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency Vladimir Popovkin said. Speaking at a State Duma session, he emphasized that further research ... more | .. |
 Opportunity is on the Move Again Opportunity finished her in-situ work at the target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater and is on the move again. On Sol 2726 (Sept. 24, 2011), the rover performe ... more | .. |
 Mars Express: Current flows and 'islands' in Ares Vallis The Ares Vallis outflow channel meanders for more than 1700 kilometres across the southern highlands of Mars and ends in a 100-kilometre-wide delta-like region in the lowlands of Chryse Planitia. ... more |
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