For quite some time now, astronomers have been questioning the established belief that soils on Mars are entirely barren, devoid of any ability to support even basic lifeforms. Finally, the latest study shows that experts may have misjudged this issue, since it seems the soil is not that unfriendly after all.That is ... |
23 August 2011
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Back in 2008, the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander made its way to the surface of the Red Planet, landing close to the north pole. Immediately upon descent, experts found beads of saltwater on the spacecraft's legs. Now, they are investigating whether this mixture can support life.Researchers at the University of Michig... |
18 August 2011
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A group of experts is proposing the creation of a new spacecraft that would fly to Mars, which would use technologies cannibalized from a number of other missions that already visited the Red Planet. Originally, the new project was called the Geophysical Monitoring Station (GMS), but now there's no name attached... |
24 June 2011
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The Phoenix Mars Lander was arguably one of the most successful NASA missions to Mars, and not necessarily in terms of endurance, but when considering the scale of its discovery. Born out of a previous lander's failure, the robot managed to successfully land on the Red Planet in search of water-ice and touch dow... |
17 December 2009
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New communication alternatives should be explored by the technology and scientific colossi, as recently demonstrated by NASA's collaboration with the Twitter service that allowed subscribers to receive short memos on the Phoenix Mars Lander's state. This is also an outstanding example of openness to the pub... |
8 December 2008
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Here, on Earth, opal comes in many forms and compositions, from scarcer, more precious ones, to the more common. But none of these would ever dare to compete against a tiny fragment of the material recently discovered on Mars by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and confirmed by the Spirit rover, on of the two rovers t... |
29 October 2008
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The technicians in charge of the state and proper functioning of the Phoenix Mars Lander (PML) have begun the slow process of the machinery's euthanasia, turning its four heaters off one by one, starting last Tuesday. The process will go on for the following few weeks until the robotic device will eventuall... |
29 October 2008
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The Mars Polar Lander was a robotic mission to Mars, scheduled to land near the south polar region of the Red Planet and conduct scientific investigations related to the clime, the soil and the ice in that respective area. In 1999, the probe finally reached Mars and began its descent towards the surface. Contact was ... |
13 May 2008
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