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Mars rocks indicate relatively recent quakes, volcanism, on Red Planet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Images of a martian landscape offer evidence that the Red Planet’s surface not only can shake like the surface of Earth, but has done so relatively recently. If marsquakes do indeed take ...

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created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

With 'Google Earth' for Mars, explore the red planet from home

(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 ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Mission possible or impossible? UA space systems engineer has the answer

Scientists have endless ideas for extraterrestrial exploration. Some are feasible, some not. In a two-part series, we look at how UA engineer Roberto Furfaro gives the red or green light to space missions. ...

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

The Meandering Channels of Mars

Sinuous channels on the Martian surface may be evidence of relatively recent rainfall. Researchers plan to test this hypothesis by studying sinuous streams on Earth.

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created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 5




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Study shows how to keep a Mars tumbleweed rover moving on rocky terrain

New research from North Carolina State University shows that a wind-driven "tumbleweed" Mars rover would be capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain – findings that could also help the National ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Scientists measure Martian sand movement: Dune migration rates appear to be similar to those on Earth

Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars—observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a lot ...

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created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Geologists discover new class of landform -- on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- An odd, previously unseen landform could provide a window into the geological history of Mars, according to new research by University of Washington geologists.

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created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

NASA's proposed 'InSight' lander would peer to the center of Mars in 2016

A Phoenix-like lander that would mine the deepest hole yet into Mars- to a depth of 5 meters – and unveil the nature of the mysterious deep interior and central core of the Red Planet is under consideration ...

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Honeycombs' and hexacopters help tell story of Mars

In a rough-and-tumble wonderland of plunging canyons and towering buttes, some of the still-raw bluffs are lined with soaring, six-sided stone columns so orderly and trim, they could almost pass as relics ...

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created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Photo from NASA Mars orbiter shows wind's handiwork

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some images of stark Martian landscapes provide visual appeal beyond their science value, including a recent scene of wind-sculpted features from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment ...

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created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Curiosity rover will serve as terramechanics instrument in explortation of Martian soils

NASA has announced that Raymond E. Arvidson, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been ...

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created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Meteorite shockwaves trigger dust avalanches on Mars

(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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created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

NASA launching `dream machine' to explore Mars

As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, NASA's newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill.

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created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Will Red Planet rover send groundbreaking data over?

One of the most sophisticated space vehicles ever made inches along the rocky landscape, aluminum wheels grinding like a spoon in a garbage disposal.

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created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 14


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