News tagged with mars science
Mars explorer says we'll find life on other planets within 10 years
Within 10 years, we'll find life outside Earth -- that's the prediction of Peter Smith, the University of Arizona professor who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission.
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Apr 21, 2009 |
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Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study
Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in research published tomorrow in Earth an ...
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Dec 08, 2009 |
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Gullies on Mars show tantalizing signs of recent water activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Planetary geologists at Brown University have found a gully fan system on Mars that formed about 1.25 million years ago. The fan offers compelling evidence that it was formed by melt water ...
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Mar 02, 2009 |
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Mars camera yields best Red Planet map ever
(PhysOrg.com) -- The best Mars map ever made is now available online for planetary scientists and armchair astronauts alike. And citizen scientists are invited to help make it even better.
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Jul 23, 2010 |
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Mars methane lasts less than a year
A new study indicates that methane in the atmosphere of Mars lasts less than a year. Methane is replenished from localized sources that show seasonal and annual variations. This pattern of methane production ...
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Sep 21, 2010 |
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Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are seeing sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars, thanks to quick-turnaround observations from orbit of fresh ...
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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Mountain on Mars may answer big question
The Martian volcano Olympus Mons is about three times the height of Mount Everest, but it's the small details that Rice University professors Patrick McGovern and Julia Morgan are looking at in thinking about ...
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Mar 04, 2009 |
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Rocks on Mars may provide link to evidence of living organisms 4 billion years ago
A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The findin ...
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Jul 29, 2010 |
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Mars rover instrument helps identify outcrop of long-sought rare rock on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's amazing what cleaning your glasses can reveal. A mineral-scouting instrument developed at Arizona State University has found an outcrop of rock rich in carbonates in the Columbia Hills ...
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Jun 03, 2010 |
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Opportunity Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Victoria Crater
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2009 |
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Geological landforms indicate 'recent' warm weather on Mars
(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 ...
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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Winds of change strike Mars, too
Mysterious dark sand dunes around Mars' northern polar cap are shifting with the seasons, as carbon dioxide gas changes form and sparks landscape-altering avalanches, said a study published Thursday.
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Feb 03, 2011 |
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Reliable nuclear device to heat, power Mars Science Lab
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which is scheduled to launch this week, has the potential to be the most productive Mars surface mission in history. That's due in part to its nuclear heat and power ...
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Nov 21, 2011 |
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Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Martian Face Turns Out to be a Rocky Mesa
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1976, the Viking spacecraft, flying above Mars, captured an image of what appeard to be a large face on the surface of the planet. The face appeared, to many, as proof that a Martian civilization ...
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Aug 02, 2010 |
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