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Measuring the Radiation on Mars
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| Topic: Mars |
11/23/11 |
| Scheduled to launch Nov. 26, 2011, NASA´s next rover
mission to Mars includes the SwRI-built Radiation Assessment Detector, one of 10 instruments that will assess past and present habitability
of the Red Planet. |
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New Mars Missions Will Investigate Why Mars Turned Hostile
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| Topic: Mars |
11/21/11 |
| The surface of Mars is an incredibly hostile place for life as we know it, but ancient Mars may have been habitable. Two new NASA missions will help astrobiologists determine what transformed Mars into the dry, desert world we're familiar with today. |
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Mars Sand Dunes in Motion
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| Topic: Mars |
11/20/11 |
| New images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that the sandy surface of Mars is more dynamic than previously thought. |
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NASA Ready for Launch of New Mars Rover
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| Topic: Mars |
11/14/11 |
| NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is in final preparations for launch. MSL will carry Curiosity, a rover with more scientific capability than any ever sent to another planet. |
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Phobos-Grunt Readied for Launch
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| Topic: Mars |
11/07/11 |
| Russia's first interplanetary mission in nearly two decades is being prepared for launch. The Phobos-Grunt mission will perform the first ever landing on Mars' small moon Phobos. If successful, the mission will collect samples from the moon and return them to Earth. |
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Clay Minerals Suggest Martian Water Underground
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| Topic: Mars |
11/04/11 |
| A new study suggests that if life ever existed on Mars, the longest
lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet´s surface. The results come from a new interpretation of mineral-mapping data from European and NASA orbiters. |
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Mars: How Watery a World?
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| Topic: Mars |
11/03/11 |
| If Mars ever had oceans, lakes or rivers, then it may also have had life as we know it. Indications of liquid water on the Red Planet have tantalized scientists for well over a century. |
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Mars 500 Reaches the End
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| Topic: Mars |
11/03/11 |
| The crew of the Mars500 experiment is preparing to open the hatch of their 'spacecraft' for the first time since June of last year. |
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Marte: ¿Hay Agua?
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| Topic: Mars |
11/03/11 |
| Si Marte tuvo alguna vez océanos, lagos o ríos, entonces también puede haber tenido vida tal como la conocemos. Indicaciones de agua líquida en el planeta rojo han atormentado a los científicos durante más de un siglo. |
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