Searching for Life on Mars With ExoMars
The ExoMars spacecraft is almost complete. A joint mission between ESA and Roscosmos, it begins with the launch of the ExoMars orbiter in 2016 and carries…
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NASA to Celebrate Martian New Year in Mars, Pennsylvania
NASA will land in Mars, Pennsylvania Friday, June 19 to celebrate Mars’ New Year with Red Planet enthusiasts of the Keystone State for three days of…
Read the articleNASA Administrator Signs Agreements With French and Spanish Partners to Advance Journey to Mars
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden signed agreements with two European partners to advance Mars exploration and our journey to the Red Planet during meetings Tuesday at the…
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Opportunity Mars Rover Completes Its First Marathon
There was no tape draped across a finish line, but NASA is celebrating a win. The agency’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity completed its first Red Planet…
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Nitrogen Detected on Mars’ Surface by Curiosity Rover
A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of…
Read the articleOpportunity Mars Rover Gets a Memory Refresh
After avoiding use of the rover’s flash memory for three months, the team operating NASA’s 11-year-old Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reformatted the vehicle’s flash memory…
Read the articleMicrosoft HoloLens & NASA OnSight Enables Scientists to Work Virtually on Mars
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to develop software called OnSight, a new technology that will enable scientists to work virtually on Mars using wearable technology…
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Beagle 2 Lander Found After 11 Years
The UK-led Beagle-2 Mars lander, which hitched a ride on ESA’s Mars Express mission and was lost on Mars since 2003, has been found in images…
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Cliffs, Trenches, Faults, Giant Plateaus and Volcanoes on Mars
Although Mars is a very alien planet, some aspects of its geology are surprisingly familiar. This Mars Express image shows a snippet of a region of…
Read the articleMethane Spike on Mars Verified by Curiosity
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a…
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