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Solar System
Mars
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| Bringing Mars Back to Earth |
| Topic: Mars |
04/19/12 |
| Rocks from Mars can teach us much about the red planet - its geology, its climate, and whether or not it ever hosted life. A new study says that looking for evidence of past life on Mars should be one of the driving forces behind a sample return mission. |
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| SAM I Am |
| Topic: Mars |
12/05/11 |
| When the Mars Science Laboratory rover ‘Curiosity” lands on Mars in August 2012, its SAM instrument will “follow the carbon” to better understand the past and present habitability of our planetary neighbor. |
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| Methane Debate Splits Mars Community |
| Topic: Mars |
09/12/11 |
| Eight years have passed, and scientists still haven't been able to come to any consensus over purported detections of methane on Mars. |
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| Microbe Risk When Rover Wheels Hit Martian Dirt |
| Topic: Mars |
09/05/11 |
| NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission will use a new "sky crane" method to lower the SUV-sized rover onto the martian surface. This direct touchdown risks contaminating the Red Planet's surface with Earth microbes hitchhiking on the rover's wheels. |
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| Out of Thin Martian Air |
| Topic: Mars |
08/22/11 |
| Mars has lost an ocean's worth of water, but to find where it all went will take satellites and computer models working in conjunction. |
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| Seeking Life´s Imprint in Shifting Desert Sand |
| Topic: Mars |
05/02/11 |
| From the deepest past to the present day, the deserts of Morocco provide a panorama of life´s history on Earth and give us insight for our investigations of Mars. |
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| Getting to Mars Means Stopping and Landing |
| Topic: Mars |
04/04/11 |
| With the space shuttle program reaching its end, scientists are focusing on technology that can take humans beyond Earth. All eyes are on Mars, but designing a spacecraft that can travel to and land on the Red Planet remains a prime challenge. |
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| Testing Mars Missions in Morocco |
| Topic: Mars |
03/10/11 |
| Martian-like landscapes in Morocco provide testing grounds for the next generation of Mars exploration missions. |
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| Mars, Brought to You by Corporate Sponsors |
| Topic: Mars |
02/10/11 |
| NASA scientists and others think business corporations could bankroll a human mission to Mars. This raises the prospect that a spaceship named the Microsoft Explorer or the Google Search Engine could go down in history as the first spaceship to bring humans to the red planet. |
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| A Strategy to Search for Life on Mars |
| Topic: Mars |
11/11/10 |
| One of the reasons NASA sends so many missions to Mars is because of the planet´s potential for life. Current missions search for factors thought to be necessary for life, such as liquid water and organic molecules, but some scientists now say the search for life itself should be the highest priority for the next decade of Mars robotic probes. |
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