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For the first time in the history of all research carried out on our neighbouring planet Mars, scientists have discovered an active glacier on its surface. This path breaking discovery was a result of images taken by sensor technologies and...
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At first, the headline may seem to be a bit misleading. But after viewing this spot you may feel it as justifiable. This spot, for the Fling, the new candy bar from...
made popular Jun 2 2009
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NASA has successfully commanded the Mars Odyssey spacecraft to reboot its computer.
made popular Mar 12 2009
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Did NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander find evidence of liquid water before it froze to death?
made popular Mar 11 2009
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NASA has postponed a risky move to restart the computer on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
made popular Mar 10 2009
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NASA engineers are trying to figure out why an orbiting Mars spacecraft went into safe mode this week.
made popular Feb 27 2009
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has promoted Jeff Gearhart to general counsel and named former counsel Tom Mars as chief administrative officer.
made popular Feb 13 2009
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Google Inc. is launching a new version of Google Earth that will let users explore the oceans, view images of Mars and watch the Earth’s surface change over...
made popular Feb 2 2009
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Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are trying to figure out why the Mars rover Spirit is acting erratically.
made popular Jan 29 2009
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A surprising and mysterious belch of methane gas on Mars hints at possible microbial life underground, but also could come from changes in rocks, a new NASA study...
made popular Jan 15 2009
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Five years after the NASA rover Spirit landed on Mars, the six-wheel robotic geologist and its twin Opportunity are still on the job.
made popular Jan 3 2009
An orbiting spacecraft has found minerals on Mars that suggest the planet was once mild and wet enough to support life, according to scientists.
The Mars...
made popular Dec 19 2008
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An orbiting spacecraft has discovered a key mineral in bedrock on the Martian surface that suggests the planet might once have had an environment hospitable to life,...
made popular Dec 19 2008
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NASA is delaying launch of a giant Mars robotic mission that is hundreds of millions of dollars over budget, the space agency said Thursday.
made popular Dec 4 2008
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A NASA insider says the space agency is delaying launch of a giant Mars robotic mission.
made popular Dec 4 2008
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Defying the global economic crisis, European ministers are pledging euro10 billion ($12.8 billion) to an ambitious list of 30 space missions, including one to put a...
made popular Nov 26 2008
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Europe’s space agency on Tuesday began mapping out how to share the cost of an ambitious slate of future missions, including a robotic Mars rover and satellites...
made popular Nov 25 2008
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The time-traveling detective show “Life on Mars” picked up its second International Emmy for best drama series, leading a British sweep of seven of the 10...
made popular Nov 25 2008
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NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars rover that would have allowed the spacecraft to store rock fragments in a mini-basket...
made popular Nov 21 2008
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You may have seen dramatic pictures of the surface of Mars, sent back by some camera-toting space probe. But have you ever wondered what it sounds like up there?
made popular Nov 14 2008
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Despite a nasty Martian dust storm, Spirit lives.
made popular Nov 13 2008
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Mars Express closed in on the intriguing martian moon Phobos at 6:50 CEST on 23 July, flying past at 2.96 km/s, only 100 km from the centre of the moon. The ESA...
made popular Jul 31 2008
MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding) radar of the Mars Express space probe has enabled the structure of the layered deposits of region...
made popular Apr 3 2007
Britain’s Beagle 2 mission to Mars went missing on December 19 2003. It could not be tracked since then. But, the scientist behind the failed space mission...
made popular Dec 21 2005
Fahadinc reports that it is the first time in the planetary exploration’s history that the MARSIS radar on board ESA’s Mars Express has provided direct...
made popular Dec 4 2005
Deep beneath the surface of the Red Planet, Mars Express detected reserves of water ice, experts announced. This discovery has made the Mars Express, the first...
made popular Dec 2 2005
Present Atmosphere of Mars
Mars has a very thin atmosphere made mostly of carbon dioxide. The surface pressure on Mars is only about 0.7% of the average surface...
made popular Nov 19 2005
Operating at the Red Planet for more than four months, Mars Express radar, MARSIS has been making its closest approaches to Mars predominantly in the daytime portion of...
made popular Nov 18 2005
The first instrument ever to make direct ‘in situ’ measurements of methane in the atmosphere of Mars, the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on board...
made popular Nov 3 2005
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