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To the Highlands of MarsSydney, Australia (SPX) May 20, 2012 Landing on Mars is never easy, as a record of failed missions has demonstrated. The gravity is fairly strong, but the atmosphere is thin. This pulls spacecraft in rapidly as they approach, but offers little natural means of slowing them down. Then there's the touchdown on rocky terrain, which can cause further problems. Thus, mission planners try to settle their spacecraft down in fairly safe locations. The terrain needs to be flat, and it also helps if the landing site is at a fairly low altitude ... read more |
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  JPL Invites all Earthlings to Annual Open House NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event, themed "Great Journeys," wi ... more | .. |
 WSU air-quality researcher to lead field studies in support of NASA Mars mission Rural Eastern Washington will become a testing ground in support of a mission to explore the Martian atmosphere for potential evidence of life under a recently funded NASA project developed by scien ... more | .. |
 Mars Opportunity Rover Is A Go For More Travel After being stationary for 130 sols during the winter, Opportunity has resumed driving again. On Sol 2947 (May 8, 2012), the rover performed a 12-foot (3.7-meter) drive down from her winter pe ... more | .. |
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 Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate a similar rover, Curi ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, NASA's durable Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, called Greeley Haven, where it worked during its fifth ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Detects Changes in Martian Sand Dunes NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth. This is unexpecte ... more | .. |
 Technology developed at Caltech measures Martian sand movement Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars-observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a ... more |
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 Prof Active In Mission To Determine Climate Change And Life On Mars NASA's top scientists - including a Texas A and M University researcher - hope to find out how Mars' climate has evolved over billions of years, and answers could come soon in the mission involving ... more | .. |
 Russia could join U.S. in Mars mission Russia would be willing to be a partner with the United States on a manned mission to Mars, a Russian space official said at the United Nations. ... more | .. |
 Antarctic stay to mimic Mars mission European scientists said they'll undergo four months of freezing darkness and isolation in Antarctica in preparation for a possible manned trip to Mars. ... more | .. |
  Terraforming a landscape for a robotic rover Challenged to design a background for a small rover controlled from space, students in Germany have delivered a futuristic cityscape. The cool space art will be seen by astronauts in orbit via the r ... more |
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 Mars Express - Former lakes and rivers in Acidalia Planitia The images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), carried on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft and operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), ... more | .. |
 Ancient Volcanic Blast Provides More Evidence of Water on Early Mars The atmosphere of Mars is less than 1 percent the density of Earth's. It's one of the reasons liquid water covers much of our planet but cannot exist on the Red Planet. As more research points ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover Opportunity Hits Paydirt At Endeavour A report in the May 4 edition of the journal Science details discoveries Opportunity made in its first four months at the rim of Endeavour Crater, including key findings reported at a geophysics con ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Getting Ready To Leave Her Winter Perch Opportunity is still positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt, but not for much longer. With the improvement in sola ... more |
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Commercial tea bags identified as major source of microplastics in infusions
Tunisia women herb harvesters struggle with drought and heat
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 Opportunity's Eighth Anniversary View From Greeley Haven This mosaic of images taken in mid-January 2012 shows the windswept vista northward (left) to northeastward (right) from the location where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is spending its ... more | .. |
Studies of 'Amboy' Rock Continue as Solar Energy Improves 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 | .. |
 Surviving the conditions on Mars Alpine and polar lichens could also survive on Mars. Planetary researchers at the German Aerospace Center simulated the conditions on Mars for 34 days and exposed various microorganisms to this envi ... more | .. |
Durable NASA Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five months ag ... more |
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 New form of Mars lava flow dicovered High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells. Such patterns have been found in a few locations on Earth, but never before on Mar ... more | .. |
 100 Days and Counting to NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Landing At 10:31 p.m. PDT April 27, (1:31 p.m. EDT), NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, carrying the one-ton Curiosity rover, will be within 100 days from its appointment with the Martian surface. At tha ... more | .. |
 Martian Volcanic Glass Could Be Hotspot for Life Glass sand on Mars may point the way to chemically-rich water ideal for hosting life. The newly discovered glass dune fields, spread across almost a third of the planet, likely formed from interacti ... more | .. |
 Mars Express explores the roots of Martian volcanoes Recent analysis of radio signals sent back by ESA's Mars Express orbiter has enabled a team of Belgian and German scientists to probe deep beneath the surface of Mars. The first targeted, high resol ... more |
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France's most powerful nuclear reactor finally comes on stream
Milei vows to promote nuclear energy in Argentina
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Lava flows carved Mars valleys: study Lava flows carved valleys on Mars, US scientists said Thursday amid a long-running debate over whether water or volcanoes formed part of the red planet's landscape. ... more | .. |
  Russian RESONANCE and Interheliozond projects: linking Sun and Earth Not nearly as spectacular as astrophysical or planetary missions, magnetospheric studies are nevertheless closer to the Earthling's wellbeing, since plasma environment in the immediate vicinity of t ... more | .. |
 People to Land on Mars in Next 40 Years The world may see a manned spaceflight to Mars in the first half of this century, a prominent Russian academic said on Monday. "I think [a manned trip to Mars] will take place in the first hal ... more | .. |
 WSU astrobiologist proposes fleet of probes to seek life on Mars A Washington State University astrobiologist is leading a group of 20 scientists in calling for a mission to Mars with "a strong and comprehensive life detection component." At the heart of their pr ... more |
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 Asteroid sites hint at life on Mars 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 US whe ... more | .. |
 Mars Astronauts Could Risk DNA Damage Future astronauts working on the Red Planet's surface risk general changes in health at the DNA level because of increased radiation exposure, a prominent Russian academic said on Monday. "Acc ... more | .. |
 Bringing Mars Back to Earth The search for life should be an essential component of a sample return mission from Mars, according to a recent report examining the science behind such a venture. A team of scientists, inclu ... more | .. |
Human health on Mars mission discussed Future astronauts spending time on the surface of Mars may face radiation exposure levels that could increase the risk of DNA damage, Russian scientists say. ... more |
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