Mars
August 27, 2009: Red Planet is about to be spectacular?
May 24, 2009In recent weeks you probably got an email with a content that reads something like this: "The Red Planet is about to be spectacular. Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two...
NASA, Google create Google Mars program
February 02, 2009The U.S. space agency and Google say they have teamed to produce a new mode in Google Earth that creates a high-resolution, 3-D view of Mars. Besides providing a rich, immersive 3-D view of Mars that will aid public understanding of Mars science, the...
Russia to cooperate with USA in moon and Mars research
October 04, 2007Russia and U.S. signed agreements to cooperate on unmanned missions that would search for potential water deposits beneath the surface of the moon and Mars. The agreements signed by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Russian...
Mars rover Opportunity to make trip into deep impact crater
June 29, 2007Mars rover Opportunity will make a trip of no return into a deep impact crater in an attempt to peer further back than ever before into the geologic history of the Red Planet. The descent into Victoria Crater received the go-ahead because the potential...
ESA prepares for a human mission to Mars
April 02, 2007Starting in spring next year, a crew of six will be sent on a 500 day simulated mission to Mars. In reality the crew will remain in a special isolation facility in Russia. To investigate the psychological and medical aspects of a long-duration mission...
European Space Probe Gets Gravitational Boost From Mars Fly-By
February 26, 2007The European Space Agency probe Rosetta has made a fly-by of Mars in a crucial navigational maneuver needed to complete its 10-year voyage to a distant comet. Mission controllers say the probe swung around Mars early Sunday, passing 250 kilometers...
USA’s plans to send astronauts to Moon and Mars block scientific research on ISS
February 21, 2007The United States is not getting its money's worth out of the international space station, John Glenn said on the 45th anniversary of the day he became the first American to orbit the Earth. Diverting money from the orbiting research outpost...
Photos Reveal: Mars Had Water Underground
February 17, 2007Photos from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reveal a landscape of hills and sand dunes punctuated by rock bleached by minerals in ancient underground streams. Those streams of water, or water mixed...
Mars Express scientists find a different Mars underneath the surface
December 15, 2006With results that the Principal Investigator of the Mars Express MARSIS radar, Giovanni Picardi, of the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, describes as unprecedented, Mars is showing scientists that it has an older, craggier face buried beneath...
- December 07, 2006
Images taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft suggest the presence of liquid water on the Martian surface, and scientists are wondering if the Red Planet might harbor life, reports NASA. Scientists for a long time have wondered whether life...