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Solar System
Mars
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| Unlocking Martian Rocks |
| Topic: Mars |
07/10/08 |
| A new study offers a simplified technique for detecting biological molecules in martian rock. The equipment is too large to be put on a rover, but it could be used to analyze samples brought back from Mars. |
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| Testing for Life on Mars |
| Topic: Mars |
06/12/08 |
| Controversy still surrounds the life-detection results from NASA's Viking mission of 30 years ago. The Phoenix mission now on Mars may help answer questions raised by Viking, but researchers will need to be able to spot the difference between chemical and biological signatures. |
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| Biological Stowaways on Mars |
| Topic: Mars |
06/05/08 |
| Astrobiologists hope to find evidence for life on Mars. Sending spacecraft from Earth to study the planet could introduce biological contamination, however, and lead to a false detection of alien life. New research adds to these concerns with evidence that ATP -- an energy-storage molecule vital to life on Earth. |
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| Can You Hear Me Now? |
| Topic: Mars |
05/27/08 |
A glitch in the communications hardware of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has caused a delay in the Phoenix mission.
UPDATE: MRO received information from the Phoenix Mars Lander Tuesday evening and relayed the information to Earth. |
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| MRO Snaps Phoenix |
| Topic: Mars |
05/27/08 |
| NASA has achieved a photographic first. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of Phoenix, hanging below its parachute, as the lander descended through the martian atmosphere. |
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| Martian Touchdown |
| Topic: Mars |
05/26/08 |
| NASA´s Phoenix lander has touched down safely on Mars and sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet´s northern arctic plains. Over the next three months, it will look for evidence of liquid water in Mars´s recent past. |
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| Iron-Coated Fossils |
| Topic: Mars |
05/26/08 |
| Fossilized microbes found in Spain´s Rio Tinto valley may guide the search for past life on Mars. |
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| Building Life's Foundations |
| Topic: Mars |
05/22/08 |
| New research conducted by the MARTE project team has shown that microbes can make barren areas suitable for life. This could have important implications for the search for life on Mars and other planets. |
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| Rendezvous with Mars |
| Topic: Mars |
05/22/08 |
| Phoenix, NASA´s latest mission to Mars, is a lander that will touch down in the planet´s northern polar region on May 25, 2008. It will search for evidence that liquid water, and a habitable environment for life, have been present there in the recent past. But first the spacecraft has to land safely. |
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| Testing Times for Robotic Explorers |
| Topic: Mars |
05/08/08 |
| A team of scientists have been investigating how signs of life on Mars can be spotted using instruments on robotic probes. |
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