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Asteroid Craters On Earth Give Clues In Search For Life On Mars Edinburgh UK (SPX) Apr 20, 2012 Craters made by asteroid impacts may be the best place to look for signs of life on other planets, a study suggests. Tiny organisms have been discovered thriving deep underneath a site in the U.S. where an asteroid crashed some 35 million years ago. Scientists believe that the organisms are evidence that such craters provide refuge for microbes, sheltering them from the effects of the changing seasons and events such as global warming or ice ages. The study suggests that crater sites on Mars ... read more |
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Opportunity Left-Front Wheel Stabilized Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. The solar insolation ... more | .. |
Designing the interplanetary web Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering t ... more | .. |
Russian Space Agency eyes Moon explorations Luna-Glob, a Moon-exploration program, will be a priority for the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for the next 10 years, academician Lev Zeleny, director of the Space Research Institute of ... more | .. | ||
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Martian impact craters may be hiding life If there is life on Mars it may be lurking in craters formed by asteroid impacts on the planet's surface, as has happened on Earth, Scottish scientists say. ... more | .. |
Dark regions on Mars may be volcanic glass Mysterious dark regions on the planet Mars are made of glass, likely formed in ancient volcanic eruptions, U.S. researchers said. ... more | .. |
Photo Of NASA's Maven Spacecraft and Propellant Tank at Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin has installed the propellant tank on NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which it is building at its Space Systems Company facilities near Denver. In addition to the large tank, many of the pri ... more | .. |
NASA Planning Group Takes Key Steps For Future Mars Exploration NASA's Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG), established to assist the agency in developing a new strategy for the exploration of the Red Planet, has begun analyzing options for future robotic mission ... more |
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Russia to Go Back to the Moon Before Reaching for Mars Recent setbacks have not stopped the Russian space effort but have drastically modified its plans. "Less fuss and more business" is now the philosophy. While not dropping its ambitions for Mars rese ... more | .. |
NASA seeks new ideas for Mars missions The US space agency said Friday it is seeking fresh ideas for robotic missions to explore Mars, after budget cuts nixed a planned partnership with the European space agency. ... more | .. |
Mars Express - Pit chains on the Tharsis volcanic bulge In the Tharsis volcanic region, almost the size of Europe, the Martian highlands have arched up into a shield several thousand metres in height as a consequence of volcanic processes. Quite a few un ... more | .. |
Russia and Europe give boost to Mars robotic mission Russia's participation in ExoMars program is approaching. A meeting of ESA and Roscosmos is scheduled for April, 6. The European landing mission to Mars may prove to be a salvation for the Russian ... more |
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Post Solstice Rover Takes The Opportunity For A Wiggle Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. The winter solstice (March ... more | .. |
Mars missions race, India takes lead India aims at sending an orbiter to Mars in 2013. The race for the Red planet unwinds with NASA planning a launch for the same 2013 fiscal year and China somewhat lagging behind. Earlier this month ... more | .. |
12-Mile-High Martian Dust Devil Caught In Act A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14. It was imaged by the High Resolution I ... more | .. |
The sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed for the first time In a world first, the sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed as part of a planetarium show in Hampshire this Easter. Despite many years of space exploration, we have no evidence of the sound of other ... more |
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Slight Drop Of Left-Front Wheel Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. Radio Doppler trackin ... more | .. |
Dusty, Acidic Glaciers Could Explain Layered Deposits on Mars Researchers from the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) have proposed a new hypothesis to explain a class of enigmatic geologic features on Mars that have puzzled ... more | .. |
'Mount Sharp' On Mars Links Geology's Past and Future One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado's grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s. Scientists have ideas about how it took sh ... more | .. |
Mars Science Laboratory Adjusts Orbital Path And Tests Instruments NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, halfway to Mars, has adjusted its flight path for delivery of the one-ton rover Curiosity to the surface of Mars in August. Tests completed aboard Curiosit ... more |
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A glow in the Martian night throws light on atmospheric circulation A faint, infrared glow above the winter poles of Mars is giving new insights into seasonal changes in the planet's atmospheric circulation. The tell-tale night emission was first detected in 2004 in ... more | .. |
SciTechTalk: Can long space missions work? As the United States considers a manned mission to Mars by the mid-2030s, ongoing research is beginning to raise doubts about the ability of human astronauts to survive such a multi-year journey in zero gravity without severe and possibly permanent physical or psychological damage. ... more | .. |
Red Food For the Red Planet Among the many issues that space programs face as they develop plans to send a human mission to Mars, the question of life support ranks at or near the top. It should come as no surprise, then, that ... more | .. |
Geologists discover new class of landform - on Mars An odd, previously unseen landform could provide a window into the geological history of Mars, according to new research by University of Washington geologists. They call the structures periodic bed ... more |
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Roscosmos takes on NASA The Russian space agency Roscosmos has submitted to the government a draft strategy for space development through 2030. The strategy lays out a plan to accomplish what the Soviet Union failed to ach ... more | .. |
Mars on a Shoestring It's no secret that Mars exploration is in trouble at NASA. Budgetary axes have swung, creating a potentially bleak future for missions and results. After the Curiosity rover mission (currently in f ... more | .. |
India's Mars mission gets Rs.125 crore India's mission to Mars got Rs.125 crore (over $24 million) in the budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in parliament Friday. The allocation was a part of the total plan outla ... more | .. |
NASA's Goddard, Glenn Centers Look to Lift Space Astronomy out of the Fog A fogbank is the least useful location for a telescope, yet today's space observatories effectively operate inside one. That's because Venus, Earth and Mars orbit within a vast dust cloud produced b ... more |
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Europe hopes to save Mars mission Member state delegations to the European Space Agency said Thursday the agency will press ahead with its 2016 and 2018 Mars missions despite funding problems. ... more | .. |
Earth's protective bubble hasn't burst For the first time, the loss of atmospheric ions from Earth and Mars has been observed during the same solar wind stream. In a new study, data from ESA's Cluster and Mars Express spacecraft, which o ... more | .. |
Russia sets sights on Moon, Mars and beyond: report Russia's crisis-hit space agency intends to send its first manned mission to the Moon and deploy research stations on Mars under an ambitious plan presented to the government this month. ... more | .. |
Winter Studies of 'Amboy' Rock Continue Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. While positioned for ... more |
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