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Life on Mars: just add carbon and stir

The building blocks of life have been discovered on Mars ... in Martian meteorites that fell to Earth.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Organic carbon from Mars, but not biological

(Phys.org) -- Molecules containing large chains of carbon and hydrogen--the building blocks of all life on Earth--have been the targets of missions to Mars from Viking to the present day. While these molecules ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Signs of ancient flowing water on Mars

(Phys.org) -- ESA’s Mars Express has returned images of a region on the Red Planet that appears to have been sculpted in part by flowing liquid. This again adds to the growing evidence that Mars had large ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First Mars Express gravity results plot volcanic history

(Phys.org) -- Five years of Mars Express gravity mapping data are providing unique insights into what lies beneath the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes. The results show that the lava grew denser over time ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Space probes will be more useful with new amplifiers

Researchers at Chalmers have developed a new generation of amplifiers, which the European Space Agency (ESA) will be using throughout the world to receive signals from its space probes and satellites. ESA ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A glow in the Martian night throws light on atmospheric circulation

(PhysOrg.com) -- A faint, infrared glow above the winter poles of Mars is giving new insights into seasonal changes in the planet's atmospheric circulation. The tell-tale night emission was first detected ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Earth's magnetic field provides vital protection

(PhysOrg.com) -- A chance alignment of planets during a passing gust of the solar wind has allowed scientists to compare the protective effects of Earth’s magnetic field with that of Mars’ naked ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Mars Express reveals wind-blown deposits on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from ESA’s Mars Express show the Syrtis Major region on Mars. Once thought to be a sea of water, the region is now known to be a volcanic province dating back billions of years.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

MARSIS completes measurement campaign over Martian North Pole

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on board Mars Express has recently completed a subsurface sounding campaign over the planet's North Pole. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Mountains and buried ice on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could be a source of water ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Battered Tharsis Tholus volcano on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest image released from Mars Express reveals a large extinct volcano that has been battered and deformed over the aeons.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mars Express observations temporarily suspended

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anomalies in the operation of the solid-state mass memory system on board Mars Express have caused science observations to be temporarily halted. A technical work-around is being investigated ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Mars Express observes clusters of recent craters in Ares Vallis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly released images taken by ESA’s Mars Express show an unusual accumulation of young craters in the large outflow channel called Ares Vallis. Older craters have been reduced to ghostly ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Water supersaturation in the Martian atmosphere discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- New analysis of data sent back by the SPICAM spectrometer on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has revealed for the first time that the planet's atmosphere is supersaturated with water vapour. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 24 | with audio podcast