Mars
News Archive on Mars Exploration, Mars Terraforming, Martian Atmosphere Dust Liquid water Methane, Martian mineralogy, Red Planet Rover Mission, ExoMars, Moons Phobos Deimos, Water on Mars, InSight lander and MarCO CubeSats.
Our news archives includes Mars missions such as Mars Mariner program Rovers, Odyssey, Pathfinder, Reconnaissance Orbiter, Viking program.
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Feb 11, 2020NASA is sending a new laser-toting robot to Mars. But unlike the lasers of science fiction, this one is used for studying mineralogy and chemistry from up to about 20 feet (7 meters) away.
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Jan 21, 2020New study finds surface waters on early Mars may have been habitable for microbial life
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Dec 13, 2019NASA has big plans for returning astronauts to the Moon in 2024, a stepping stone on the path to sending humans to Mars. But where should the first people on the Red Planet land?
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Nov 29, 2019Scientists with NASA's Mars 2020 rover have discovered what may be one of the best places to look for signs of ancient life in Jezero Crater, where the rover will land on Feb. 18, 2021.
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Nov 27, 2019The search for evidence of life on Mars could be helped by fresh insights into ancient rocks on Earth.
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Nov 13, 2019For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars. As a result, they noticed something baffling: oxygen,
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Oct 24, 2019Texas A&M researchers found that Mars has undergone wet and dry periods and salt lakes formed similar to some found in South America.
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Oct 9, 2019If you could travel back in time 3.5 billion years, what would Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with NASA's Curiosity rover.
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Oct 4, 2019NASA's InSight lander positioned its robotic arm to assist the spacecraft's self-hammering heat probe. But the probe has been unable to dig more than about 14 inches (35 centimeters) since it began burying itself into the ground on Feb. 28, 2019.
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Jul 20, 2019An interdisciplinary research group from Aarhus University has proposed a previously overlooked physical-chemical process that can explain methane's consumption on Mars.