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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dust avalanches around impact craters on Mars appear to be the result of the shock wave preceding the actual impact, according to a study led by an undergraduate student at the UA. 
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A group of Australian scientists have created a “whole of planet” model that suggests large parts of Mars are capable of supporting life – as long as it doesn’t mind living underground.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new software tool developed by the HiRISE team in the UA's Lunar and Planetary Lab allows members of the public to download high-resolution images of the Martian landscape almost instantaneously and explore the surface of the Red...
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SAN FRANCISCO — A well-traveled NASA Mars rover has found some of the best evidence yet that water flowed on the Red Planet's surface long ago, researchers announced today (Dec. 7).
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The troubled Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which has been stuck in low-Earth orbit since early November, appears to be doomed, with small pieces of the wayward Mars probe already falling to Earth.
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Phlegra Montes is a range of gently curving mountains and ridges on Mars. They extend from the northeastern portion of the Elysium volcanic province to the northern lowlands.
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The European Space Agency' Mars Express spacecraft has discovered "large volumes of water ice" hiding only 65 feet underground the red planet's surface, in the Phlegra Montes mountain range.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off from Space Launch Complex-41 with NASA's Mars Science Lab rover Curiosity. This is ULA's 56th successful l...
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What would be your reaction if signs of microscopic life were discovered on Mars? Would you smile or frown?
's comment November 27, 2011 10:20 PM
I think it would be great to have humans on Mars. My question is, will it really become a reality?
Sakis Koukouvis's comment,
November 28, 2011 1:37 AM
Hi, Keith
I think that in this century is difficult. We have to concentrate to solve our big problems in our societies.
's comment November 28, 2011 12:08 PM
Hi Sakis,
I agree with you 100 percent. We have way bigger issues now to get over than worry about landing on a planet. While the thought of it is great there's just too many things, namely how would we even pay for it? Great post!
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NASA's Curiosity rover has begun the journey to Mars after its Atlas V rocket launched successfully from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Nov. 26. Ten...
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The US space agency is poised to launch the most powerful and advanced robotic rover ever built to explore Mars and hunt for signs that life may once have existed on the red planet.
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The biggest and most technically advanced rover to date is on its way to Mars.
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A Russian spacecraft bound for a moon of Mars and stuck in Earth's orbit will come crashing back next month, but its toxic fuel and radioactive material on board will pose no danger of contamination, the Russian space agency said Friday.
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Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said that 'large regions' could sustain life.
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Mars, as the images issued by the Phoenix probe show us, is not like the Earth: "It is continuous, seamless and sealess," writes Oliver Morton -Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World. But rising above the Red Planets frequent dust storms is the Olympus Mons -the tallest known volcano and mountain in our solar system.
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March 24, 2014 7:27 PM
For students - For your interest only.
For teachers - Students who have completed their work might be interested in taking a look at this.
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Physicist Paul Davies explains that traveling to and subsisting on the Red Planet isn't the hard part—it's getting people home.
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HiView is the best way to explore HiRISE images of the Martian surface at the full resolution of the imagery. Tracks of boulders that have fallen down crater walls, delicate rays of ejecta from fresh impact craters, and the unearthly formations created by carbon dioxide ice on the Martian south pole are just a few of the things that are waiting to be discovered by anyone using a tool like HiView with HiRISE imagery.
Once the application has been downloaded to your computer, all that is needed to get started after launching the application, is a quick drag and drop of any of the links to the JP2 files on the HiRISE website to the HiView application window, and HiView will take care of the rest. No downloading of multigigabyte files required!
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In late November, NASA’s Curiosity, the world's biggest extraterrestrial rover, began rocketing toward Mars (see photos of the launch here) in search of any hint that the red planet might have provided a home for microscopic life.
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nasa.gov - Excellent launch precision for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has forestalled the need for an early trajectory correction maneuver, now not required for a month or more.
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The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have up sticks and colonize space. But is the human body up to the challenge?
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What does it take to get a spacecraft to Mars? This 60-second video covers a few key things to remember when planning a trip to the Red Planet.
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The MSL rover features ten science instruments. An additional science payload is installed on the heat shield/aeroshell. There are four basic categories of instruments: remote sensing, contact...
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We are pleased to offer the following high definition video of the Mars Science Laboratory to our Spaceflight Now Plus subscribers. These video files are presented in 720p resolution. Learn how you can subscribe to Spaceflight Now Plus.
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