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Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

Nov 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sample of the variety and complexity of processes that may occur ...

Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look ...

NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 12, 2009 | 5 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.

A Tale of Planetary Woe (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 11, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (11) | 5

Once upon a time — roughly four billion years ago — Mars was warm and wet, much like Earth. Liquid water flowed on the Martian surface in long rivers that emptied into shallow seas. A thick atmosphere blanketed ...

A Mars Rover Named 'Curiosity'

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 30, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (18) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you found your grandmother's diary, tattered and dust covered, up in the attic, would you read it? Of course you would. Granny was a pistol! Brush off the dust, open up the little book, ...

Water Bears to Travel to Martian Moon, Test Theory of Transpermia

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 13, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (14) | 22

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny microscopic creatures commonly known as water bears (also called Tardigrades), along with a few other life forms, will be sent to the Martian moon Phobos to test whether organisms can ...

Telltale tells story of winds at Phoenix landing site

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 16, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

Wind speeds and directions were measured for the first time in the Mars polar region using the Phoenix lander’s Telltale instrument. Astronomers recorded Easterly winds of approximately 15-20 kilometres per ...

Dust Storm Passing Over Spirit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The amount of electricity generated by the solar panels on Spirit has been declining for the past several Martian days, or sols, as a regional dust storm moved southward and blocked some of ...

Mars, methane and mysteries

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 10, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (10) | 0

Mars may not be as dormant as scientists once thought. The 2004 discovery of methane means that either there is life on Mars, or that volcanic activity continues to generate heat below the martian surface. ...

Mars breakthrough: Scientists uncover red planet's hot and steamy secrets

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 21, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (20) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- An analysis of Martian meteorites has led scientists to believe that Mars was molten for up to 100 million years after it formed, thwarting the evolution of early life on the planet.

Mars Dust Devil Has Colorful Effect in Image Series

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 14, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have combined a trio of shots taken seconds apart through different colored filters to create a special-effects portrait of a moving dust devil on Mars.

Mission accomplished: 105-day Mars mission simulation ends in Moscow

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 14, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A crew of six today completed their simulated Mars mission after leaving a special isolation facility in Moscow, Russia, for the first time in 105 days. Their mission is part of the Mars500 ...

Heat Shield Readied for Next Mars Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, has finished building and testing the heat shield for protecting the Curiosity rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project. This heat shield is even larger than the ...

Geological landforms indicate 'recent' warm weather on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 29, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (13) | 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research led by a UK scientist indicates that Mars had significantly warmer weather in its recent past than previously thought. The research, funded by the UK’s Science and Technology ...

Mars Rover Yielding New Clues While Lodged in Martian Soil

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 25, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (11) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history.