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Exploration
Moon to Mars
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| Splitting Cargo and Crew |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
10/04/04 |
| The next generation shuttle, designed to support eventual lunar stops on the way to Mars, may benefit from a NASA concept to separate crew and cargo in future missions. Before a crew is sent, the cargo will be waiting for them. |
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| Red Planet in Sensaround |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/09/04 |
| An experience that few can imagine sampling is in some ways the simplest: to breathe deeply on another planet or moon. So what does Mars offer today to the sensory connoisseur? |
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| Roam in a Day |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
02/14/04 |
| Four prominent scientists are represented on the new Presidential commission chartered to study how best to plan a moon to Mars initiative. The commissioners repeated a need for crafting sustained efforts, while also considering an off-charter topic of how to sustain interest in space astronomy. |
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| Earth Without Life? |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
07/18/03 |
| The Mars Express spacecraft snapped a new panorama of the Earth and Moon in silhouette against a dark sky. The views back at our own planet reveal a blue dot, rich with oceans and clouds, but how does our planet's chemistry hold up for comparison to other worlds--alive or lifeless? |
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| Alien Weather |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/15/03 |
| Mars Odyssey scientists are prospecting the Red Planet for future explorers. The evidence of polar ice and dissolved potassium from rocks, together continues to build the case for glacial martian history, but its intense radiation would challenge unprotected life. |
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| Treasures from the Lunar Attic |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/14/03 |
| Computer simulations of what part of Earth, Mars and Venus might be found on the moon point to new methods for extraterrestrial sample return. |
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